I haven't gone anywhere, actually, but I found myself unable to post to my blog for days due to scheduling conflicts.
And then so much broke loose. Now, I admit to watching the Olympics in this interim or interregnum, or whatever you want to call it, and that did distract me from writing a few posts here.
And then the war started a couple of days ago. It remains to be seen if the world will be a safer place when this is over. Right now, I guarantee it is not a safer place.
Since the President was unable to send the world economy into a death spiral with either plan A -- firing Jerome Powell, or plan B -- willy nilly imposing and invoking tariffs -- he has now moved on to plan C, attacking Iran, which has now threatened to shut down the Straits of Hormuz, through which lots and lots and lots of oil is moved.
One thing is certain -- in so many different ways, the path forward is unstable and unpredictable. Which is rarely ever a good thing.
But hey -- Piton de la Fournaise erupted while I wasn't posting. At one point early in the eruption, it appeared to be erupting from seven vents (where does it think it is -- Iceland?) So Mother Earth ignores the travails of its denizens and just keeps flowing along.
Eruption pic:
Sulfur dioxide cloud:
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