Morning. Going to be 90 today and I’m in adventure shirt and shorts. Because I can be.

I’m behind on some work, and it’s not good because it’s performance review time. But one can only do one’s best, so we’ll see what they think when that time comes, tomorrow afternoon.

Let me just switch my converse over to flip flops. One moment.

Ahhhh. Better.

What is your worth? How do you determine it? Is it the amount of people who like you? Or is it the kind of person who likes you? Is it something that’s determined by “the invisible hand of the market”? Is it something we have any control over? Is our worth a stroke of luck, like winning the lottery, perhaps being born with the right skill at the right time? Is it a matter of time-and-place circumstance? Would the same “highly valuable” people be as valuable in different times or places?

Just asking.

Did you know that more rain falls on Saturdays than any other day, 22%? Think about how weird that is. For one thing, “Saturday” is a human invention, and so is the 7-day week. To the earth, Saturday is arbitrary. To nature, this coming “saturday” will be, for example, day No. 4,540,233,846,204.  I mean, yes there are cycles, such as our orbiting of the sun and our moon’s orbiting of us, but those don’t map onto the idea of “7 days a week”. That’s a new invention, and one that doesn’t particularly match up well. Our months have different days in them. Heck, even our year does. So how is it possible that more rain falls on what we call “Saturday” day than any other, when “day of the week” isn’t a recognizable thing to the rest of nature? Religious people think it’s because god wants us to stay home and be pious on the weekends.

Well, here’s the thing. The only thing determining “Saturday” to be a thing is us. We’re the only beings that label that day and who can say that more rain falls on it than any other. So what else is implied by our identifying what happens on the 6th day of our invented 7 day cycle? For one thing, we work Monday-Friday and usually do not work on Saturday and Sundays. The schedules of the trains, the amount of traffic, the amount of trucks moving stuff around, the amount of factories burning stuff, the amount of human and machine activity overall– the amount of ACs on, the amount of dumptrucks running, the amount of cement being poured–is higher during the 5 days preceding the 6th.  Is it possible that 5 days of a certain kind of mass activity could lead to a 6th day that’s different in some way?

So there’s one key thing missing here. Does it rain more on “Saturdays” everywhere in our world? What about in the middle of the ocean? What about in the middle of the desert? What about in the Himalayas? Well, that’s the right question. It turns out this “rains more on Saturdays” statistic–which is true–describes areas around populated places, like the eastern and western seaboards. Not in the middle of the ocean. Since people don’t commute or mix cement in the middle of the ocean, it’s highly likely that it’s us causing there to be more rain on our Saturdays.

So, that’s all.

Have a great steamy day, drink your water before you go for your training. If you’re a chick, wear your bikini top as you tan because there’s nothing hotter than dat contrast. Yee and haw monkeys.