PDX, 2015
The term "Homering" is used as a term of sneering disrespect in some circles, and relates to the fictional Homer Simpson of cartoon fame. The connotation is "comporting oneself in ways unbecoming of a true man" as Homer is seen to do, including simply puttering about in a domestic manner, a way customarily associated with the female role (in charge of the household -- while men go out and hunt). Such are the stereotypes in some circles.
As for me, I use "homering" with much less judgement, and if anything am admiring of the term for its becoming "anti-macho" flavor. Vanity about one's weight (female: figure) comes within this ballpark i.e. cosmetics, glamour concerns.
Which brings me to the "no beer diet" which I've embarked upon again, up to January 1, then assess -- probably continue a few weeks at least. This is not about abstinence from alcohol, and to reassure the "body politic" (my fat cells) I ostentatiously invested in $70 worth of high proof liquor, which I've been enjoying, including mixed with eggnog.
I know, I know, how can I lose weight if I'm sucking down buckets of nog, spiked or not? Plus since it rained big time on Halloween, how is helping myself to a whole basket of candy in any way in the name of "slimming down"? My skeptics are fierce, but in the long term I find eliminating ten or so pints of distilled grain per week ("liquid bread" lets call it) pays off. I've already largely eliminated "liquid meat" (i.e. milk) from my diet with the occasional seasonal deviation permitted by religious lights I follow. I was brought up to guzzle the stuff based on some government PR then in circulation.
Today Carol departed for Missouri. We breakfasted at Beaches, per usual. She's involved in the public rebellion against being treated as "collateral damage" by the Nukehead Authorities.
Environmental tourism (eco-tourism) is already big and bringing groups through Kansas City, Missouri to gawk at this city-owned nuclear weapons factory should prove lucrative. With or without plant tours (I'd think with, but that costs extra) we'll have the dioramas and documentaries, showing how these good citizens made their homeland proud. The PR displays are all a part of the eco-tourist friendly museum, similar to the one about Gitmo (see storyboards).
We also visit Washington DC of course, as a part of our eco-tour, a place akin to Guam in terms of representation in the Federation. The idea was to create a semi neutral District, mostly Mason-controlled, that could be trusted to managed the money. That didn't last long of course, as money management was turned over to a separate Central Bank (the Federal Reserve), and DC became more like a Caribbean colony. Its representative still has American values though, in wanting the US to lead us out of the Nukehead Era. She introduces the bill every year and of course is ignored by a mostly nukehead Congress.
Weapons retirement, i.e. decommissioning nuke plants that make the weapons grade fuel, is going to consume the time of many highly-educated, students who freely choose such important work as their principal area of concentration.
OSU has made a good start, with its "duck and cover" museum (it has a more formal name). A network of academic and collaborating government agencies is beginning to prepare students for such a career. Cleanup & Disposal of Radio-toxic Waste is going to be a job for well trained professionals from many backgrounds, for the foreseeable future.
The US national parks administration, under Department of the Interior, is thinking to take on memorializing the Nukehead Era in the wake of making these areas safe enough at least for eco-tourism. Hanford and so on, are hosting interpretive centers, with exhibits like the one at OMSI, explaining the project to forestall more leakage into the global ecosystem, a disaster not unlike the Fukushima experiment.
Showing maps of the health effects of nukehead experiments, not just in Micronesia but on the North American mainland as well, goes with the territory. Showcasing Missouri is just for starters, and is made all the more dramatic thanks to the underground fire.
