The Dog Days of Summer in 'Nam

The standing wave in our home will not dissipate until the record-breaking heat subsides.  Is it the other way around?  The record-breaking heat will not subside until the standing wave in our home which largely is responsible for the amassing of this heat dissipates.  Koch is dead, fifty-eight billion dollars worth.  His companies funded attacks on environmental controls.  Better that he exited this earth still while it is cool enough upon which to live.  In a few years it will not be.  The likes of the Koch brothers, greed addicted devils, will torch this earth with a mighty roar.  They will laugh will they do it, and it is our responsibility to stop them.  Careless disregard.  It feels like the weight of the world, and it is.  It's a bit much to face each day, the ensuing end of our planet.  What is more disturbing is the sheer farce of watching Donald Trump revel in his own senility.  Economically depressed areas in North Carolina.  Rocky Mount.  Lumberton.  Hamlet.  Contrary to popular belief cultural and economic growth are intertwined.  Not for the Koch brothers who have enough money to live as they please.  For the rest of us it has become survival of the fittest.  There is no economic prosperity.  We just have to make it one day at a time.  The oligarchs hold all of the purse strings.  Crooked Republican statehouse members in Raleigh control the rest.  Dubious are their concerns.  Fifty million for a Civil War museum.  Without honest governmental regulation the populace is headed back to slavery.  Our internet bill, basic internet service crept up to $85.00 a month.  The month they went up mysteriously that statement was not available.  Our TV service double in price and then went up another twenty dollars while declining greatly in service.  It was missing one of the three main local networks!  After months of reflection we made the change, and while the service is a vast improvement the channel line up it a nightmare, on purpose.  They want you to be confused so you will stream.  They want you to be confused so you will "Upgrade Now."  Immediate gratification.  Push a button for happiness.  Now!  Not thoughtful planning and implementation of your invested money.  I will crack this nut, cable TV, again, but it will take time and a concerted effort.  The sound and picture quality vastly are better.  No service drop outs when it rains, and it is a better bundled price.  We got an upgraded modem.  Knock wood.  How does one create a favorites list?  Our upstairs attic is an inspector's dream.  R-38 blown in over brand new ducts.  The bathroom vents have flex tube extensions, and there are polyvents in the eaves so the attic can breathe through its ridge vent.  That attic is finished.  No more work to be done.  Now if the military industrial activity would lessen.  You would think our neighborhood is Compton.  The scrutiny we receive from the air is constant.  Each morning when I am jolted from sleep either by a strafing jet, a trolling Cessna, or artillery fire I wonder what gives?  A major selling points of GE's heavy haul locomotives is they transmit engine diagnostics to a satellite for interpretation by Ground Forces Command.  I mean GE Central.  I mean headquarters.  I mean CSX Corp. in Jacksonville.  Like the Army practicing in the field, they use Cessnas to relay communications from the battlefield to satellites.  These little trolling planes that never seem to go away, either relaying engine diagnostics or battlefield logistics...  Why do they seem to favor our neighborhood?  Why during this entire heat wave in August has their been a non stop "standing wave" in our home?  I already know I can feel the Aberdeen and Rockfish locomotives when they ramble by.  Back in the day the sneaked over to Fayetteville and in the middle of the might built a crossover across what were Atlantic/Seaboard Coastline tracks.  They were ruthless in their pursuit of the dollar.  It's not the Aberdeen and Fayetteville, but the majority of their contracts are here.  River Terminal they call it.  Natural gas.  Scrap metal.  Hexion.  Valley Proteins.  They commute to Da Ville, make their money, and amble home to Southern Pines.  That is pretty opportunist.  How tolerates those clanking, knocking, vibrating antiquated GP engines each day?  The citizens of Fayetteville, not the citizens of Southern Pines.  Why does Norfolk Southern send two of their largest engines to Fayetteville to pick up and handful of freight cars?  I mean mammoth, hulking, powerful road engines.  Most people don't know that Fayetteville is an industrial park of which Fort Bragg is the largest client.  Who provides aviation fuel for the base?  Is it the Kochs?  Does anyone know that Cargill's vegetable oil plant is right across the Cape Fear River?  How do they produce this oil?  Heat.  How does Valley Proteins render animal carcasses?  Heat.  How does DAK make polyester?  Heat.  Why is it hotter in Fayetteville?  It is a surge.  This is the summer surge.  I remember a CSX engineer saying that heat is a desired element when transporting the pellets to DAK Americas on Cedar Creek Rd.  No one questions the heat.  It seemed like moving mountains changing cable service.  The provider was very unclear about the services they offered.  I knew once I talked to the service installer it would be fine, and it was.  Like most families we rely upon both television and internet service.  It is important, so it was high profile this change.  It is done, and it was successful.  I have been on the wagon for three weeks, and it has been the worst three weeks of my life.  My body is more healthy and I am not in constant pain, but the mental challenge.  The time we devote to soothing our frayed nerves and souls as a result of the continual industrial assault....  Never ending.  We had added insulation blown in this upstairs attic, and it is picture perfect.  While the temperature change may be nominal, because we had insulation there already, what has changed is acoustical.  Those strafing aircraft, both military jets and trolling snooping Cessnas create ultrasound.  I am bothered by infrasound, but high frequency sound you can't hear?   What is the result?  The result is that jet hiss, that noise that was discovered at the consulate in Cuba, disrupts your high frequency content in recorded music.  As I am listening to the same music over the same Amazon device, the upper frequencies are much clearer.  The reverb in particular has more detail and is more prevalent.  ???  Eliminating invisible and inaudible high frequency noise from your living space?  Most people would say time to move, but the benefits of a paid for dwelling are vast.  In no uncertain terms renting or paying on a mortgage is pissing your money into the wind.  Period.  No matter what the property tax, you are better living in a paid for home.  Make the best of it.  They are hard at work building the Mirror Lake dam.  I am grateful.  This back entrance to our neighborhood has been closed for over two years.  The scope of this project is mammoth.  Clearly I remember when they built the last one.  It didn't take long.  It was a few pipes under the road.  After two major hurricanes in two years, they decided to use the FEMA money to build a dam for all seasons.  It almost is bigger than the lake itself.  The inlet will be similar to the one they built on Clark's Pond on Cain Rd.  It is ugly, a big concrete slab sitting above the water.  It is a bit absurd, but those FEMA dollars are coveted.  Anytime a project gets approved in Da Ville, they hire a consulting firm.  We have consulting firms out the whazoo.  The City Council hired a consulting firm to do a Rail Feasibility Study a while back.  They suggested a connector track for the Fort Bragg line running down the Murch.  Now would be the time to build it seeing as all of the land has been cleared for the building of the new Rowan Street Bridge.  Touche.