Had lunch with two dear friends I met years ago at a school. During our wide-ranging discussion, I was pointed to Miss Fisher's Mysteries. Will be looking for it on NetFlix. In all, it was great catching up with people whose opinions and outlooks are always worth hearing. After a leisurely lunch, I dropped in on my daughter at work and chatted with her as well.

Get home thinking it's been a great day only to find out there's another gun attack going on. Again!!!! Right now. 14 people killed; another 14 wounded. Lead graph from Net article: As many as three people opened fire at a center for people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 14 others in what the city's police chief described as an act of domestic terrorism.

It has to stop.  We better start getting the gun problem under control or we face the chance of living in 2015 as if it were the old Wild West days. Not everyone qualifies for a driving license; not everyone should be able to get a gun license. (Possession of a gun without a license is a felony in Meland.)

In my paranoid moments, I think how easy it would be for the gun industry to hire three cartel members to shoot into a crowd. Big money paid to the shooters but really really BIG money to the guys who make and sell guns as sales surge around the rest of the country. More guns around, more tragedies both accidental and purposeful will occur which will bring about even more gun sales. If you want an idea of what "everybody entitled to have a gun" gets you, look to the Middle East. Hell, just look to Colorado Springs and now, San Bernardino.

I'm ready to punch a wall in angry frustration at the way the "present" is presenting itself.

I turn to my background universe, Mr. TiVo, and see that he's recorded some stuff for me to watch. It's easy to eliminate the first three selections (Maury, Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos Show). I binged on all of them for awhile not believing they were still on. Outrageous in the subjects they covered, I eventually got fed up seeing unemployed men prance around while bragging how they took care of their 11 children with nine different mothers. And then there is the neverending sage of: "Er, but Mandy, why do you stay with a man who beats you?" "Because I love him, Maury, because I love him. He ain't always this way. Only when he hits me, Maury." 

Next on the list was Married for the First Time. Six people get married (never having actually met until that moment. Then they live as married couples for nine (?) (maybe six?) weeks, at the end of which they have to decide whether they want to stay married. The show follows their paths. (I wonder how bad it must be that a person would do this. Money? Shot at TV reality starship? 

Reality versus reality TV.

They got the guys who did the killings. (Wow. This whole CA shooting is so messed up. Husband and wife team who worked there. Muslims.) Have to go pay attention.