Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

Anxiety causes stress.  I read about it this morning.  Since my heart attack in December of 2011, I have taken much advice from my cardiologist to heart.  I know what stress does to one's body.  Stress kills.  I am supposed to get eight hours of sleep every night and shut down by five in the evening.  I don't exercise as much as I did, but after my heart attack I went to the gym almost daily until we bought our own treadmill.  But, as much as I can worry aboit the stupidest of things, I refuse to stress about anything.  Stress kills. It's as simple as that.  If heart disease is a silent killer, stress stalks the heart.  I mean that.  I wake up and look forward to that first cup of coffee in the morning as I have practically since we were married.  I have my bad habits, but I can tell whether I am stressed or relaxed.  I might worry about everything, but I simply refuse to let my body and my heart to be stressed.  I kn...

 Elon Musk says his greatest worry that keeps him awake at night is nuclear warfare.  Mostly between Russia and the Ukraine.  What happens if one side or the other decides to drop the bomb?  Musk has a lot at stake here although, really nuclear warfare would be WWIII, and the end of the world as we know it.  He has proposed a kind of Peace agreement by letting the people choose which country will govern the region.   It's all more complicated than I have explained here, but if Musk isn't sleeping well out of worrying about nuclear warfare, we just need to see where the End Of The World clock has been set by the scientists at the University of Chicago.  It's the closest to midnight it has ever been since 1945 when the clock was first established.   But it is not because I am too dumb to understand world affairs like Musk or that I have no stake in nuclear warfare.  It's just that I have faith the world will survive.  Such faith ...

 I am smoking my Savinelli Churchwarden pipe this morning.  Even though it is morning and the temp right now is 73, I am smoking Sunset Rum.  I smoked my Boswell yesterday, but only a couple of bowls and thought about leaving it out here on the table over night but decided I would smoke a different pipe today.  We had a landscaping crew come yesterday to clear up some old brush and then we went out for the afternoon.  I didn't get a lot of pipe smoking accomplished yesterday. But today the games are on so I might settle in to watch the championship games.  I told my wife last night that I have this really strange algorithm with YouTube.  I use a moniker as most people do and I get a lot of videos about the universe and astrophysics, which includes most anything related to the thinking of astrophysicist, including Einstein.  But the videos that fascinate me the most discuss the beginning of the universe.   Many people want to know the mea...

 Paul McCarney was the last of yhe Beatles to take LSD out of fear it would forever change him and his music.  He took it one night and when the trip was over whenever he closed his eyes, instead of seeing blackness, he saw a blue hole.  He said at the time Marijuana was for giggles.  But he said all the other Beatles took LSD and believed they would be a cohesive group of Paul did too.  He now says of those days, no harm came to them by drug experimentation. My youngest son who still plays in a band and knows a lot about sixties music, says that one can tell when a group stopped doing drugs.  Their music wasn't as good.  It might be that drugs like Marifuana and LSD contributed greatly to the creative music of the sixties and the early seventies.  There might be a few from that era who do not like music from that era.  But the sixties was a totally unique decade.  No question.  My wife and I still listen to a lot of music from that...

 There is a vehicle for those who want mote than just a luxury SUV.  Car maker Rezvani has made an SUV for soccer moms who want to survive the Apocalypse.  The model is called the Vengeance and nothing is left out including body armor and gas masks.  It is available with a whole host of options and will seat eight.  I could go through all the options like blinding lights and smoke screen, but it can be equipped with bullet proof glass and electrified door handles to keep the Zombies out.  Oh, and let's not forget the pepper spray in the side view mirrors. I could go on and on about this luxury SUV, but a full package of all the options will set a person back over $600,000.   I believe this model just came out recently, as I read about it just this morning.  But we ate living in a day where people genuinely fear and this SUV is proof.  If someone were to ask me how many of these from the cheaper model on up  Rezvani will sell this ye...

 Why are kitchen sinks always located below a window?  I just read an article about this and the answer might surprise you.  Some thought it was because whoever is washing the dishes can look out and see the kids.  Others thoight it was just about esthetics.  Well, the answer might surprise you.  It's because of cost.  Less pipe is used for the waste pipe, so it's always by a window.   I'm in SW Florida and it seems here there is a lot of religious news about churches and religion in general.  But frankly, I'm not into that.  I just don't consider myself a religious person.  I say I am Spiritual, but not religious.  The difference is that Spiritual people are often alone a lot and they tend to be quiet.  Religious people like to belong.  And that is the main difference, but there are other subtle differences.   Today it is a little chilly, overcast, and quite windy, as I sit here on the patio smoking my...

 One of the things I like about doing this particular blog is that unlike my Pipe a Day Blog, I am not limited to writing about pipes or tobacco.  Each day I read the news and see what is happening on each day.  And too, unlike my other blog, I am not writing a day or two ahead.  I mentioned to my wife this morning that a musician for a megachurch lost his job for having an affair.  I told her it was the same church where another famous pastor lost his job for having a homosexual affair. I said my theology today would not be accepted in any church.  It wouldn't, plus I smoke a pipe for my own religious reasons.  I said no one could accept that.  I don't want to dwell on this topic because I could care less.  I believe that as soon as a religion gets organized it's ruined.  I believe many things now that would not be accepted in most any religion, with maybe an exception or two.  But I am a religion of one person.  Me.  But...