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The Bright Sky Today
I don’t have anything to write today. The only thing that comes to my mind right now is the weather. It is quite bright today although still not sunny. If I compare it to the last two or three days, it’s a great improvement. Yesterday was the worst with a deep orange haze outside and a burning smell in the air–I heard about forest fires here and there for years, but has never experienced something this bad. It is more than 500 miles from here to Quebec, Canada, and it is quite surprising that the smoke of those forest fires can travel this far, and maintain its orange color and charred smell for this long.
It is said breathing in such an air is like smoking one cigarette every hour. I guess we have all smoked several packs so far. Three days ago when the haze just started, I was shocked to get up and see the morning Sun looked strangely red, almost cartoon-ish, with several halos. For a second, I thought it was an astronomical phenomenon. The smell was nauseous, as if somebody was barbecuing some strange meat with weird spices. Somehow I imagined maple trees on fire plus several inflamed squirrels who couldn’t get away. It was the smell of their carnage.
No AI Image For Me
The images of burning trees and squirrels have been in my mind for three days. In order to have some positive images instead, I went online tonight and found that there are at least two places that allow people to generate AI images using text. So I typed in several words, like cat, flower, lotus, book, magazine. When the AI images (four pictures being generated) came back, they all look inordinately shiny, glowing a little too much, flowers extremely red, cat looking like a ceramic figurine. Somehow it felt like a digital dystopia, which defeated my purpose of trying to get some positive images into my head.
Watch People Eat
My interest in watching people eat online has evolved. I have given up on gluttonous foodies who go to different places in the world to stuff themselves to the brink of death or vomit; I have exhausted my interest in cat eating sushi, egg, hotdog; I’ve also finished videos on animals getting drunk or brain freeze.
Now my interest moves onto people eating exotic fruit or veggies: jack fruit, soursop, mangosteen, screwpine, durian, dragon fruit, rose apple, sapodilla, chambodas.
I guess as social animals, we like to know about other people, including watching them eat. I really didn’t know that I could have such an interest, such as to watch people eat. Now I do it regularly.
Haoyan Do 
That whole week was a nightmare. It almost reminded me of Beijing.
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The sky looks pretty weird. It does look like a sand storm kind of sky. It reminds me of the Mongolian Steppe storm–a kind of sand storm with strong wind and millions of little specks of dusts in air.
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Eating competitions used to be a thing. How many pork pies can a person eat in a hour – that sort of thing. That was quite “old school” so I guess the internet videos are the modern equivalent of something that goes back a long way.
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I once watched the hot dog contest on TV that’s held in NYC. I must be crazy at the time now I think of it. Actually it is said people actually overeat more often during famines because people are hungry to begin with. When they have a chance to access food, they automatically overeat, which can cause illness even death sometimes.
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I heard about the fires in Canada. So sad, I feel bad for the wildlife which were effected by it.
Watching people eat can be amusing and entertaining. At least for me. And I guess watching people eat exotic fruits/veggies sounds interesting.
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Fortunately the bad air is gone and the sky returns to blue again. I wish the wild fire has been put out. I often thought Canada is too cold for forest fire. I mean California is dry and hot, but Canada? I often think it is rainy and cold and damp for some reason. I guess this year it is getting hot and dry. Well, global warming again.
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Canada is very cold is winter but extremely hot in summer, especially in some areas. Which is what caused the fires. So many disasters have happened this year due to global warming. It’s so sad.
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Yes, even around here, there were wild fires in recent years in small scales. I don’t even know there are “wild” places around here in the first place. LOL. Anyway, the air is clear thankfully for now. I really don’t know that Canada can have such hot summers. Now I recall the summer at the south edge of the Mongolian Steppe, where it is very hot during the noon and afternoon hours, like 30 to 35 centigrade, but it drops very quickly in the evening to very cool even a little cold when the sun goes down.
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It’s a bit different in Canada. Where I lived summer would be like over 30 degrees and it wouldn’t get any better at night which was tough. I didn’t even feel like leaving the house during summer lol.
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The first one sounds really ominous.
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Thank you. Yes, the sky did look weirdly red and fortunately it has gone away.
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