I decided to try out DuckDuckGo. The tracking didn’t bother me. Those that tracked me would find out very little about me. First, when I can, I write. When I write, I do research, mostly on the internet. One of my books starts out in France so I did some research on France, especially Paris. Oddly, for a few weeks after, I started getting ads about France and Europe. If they were looking for info on me, they struck out. More, all they had to do was ask me. All they needed to do was read my blog. My life is pretty much open.

One thing about it, it did alert me to the fact that people were watching over my shoulder. Many times, it brought some laughter to me. Sometimes, I had to just shake my head.

Now that I am using DuckDuckGo, I still get ads, strange ads. I get ads like a four thousand pound skip loader. I get ads for hydraulic equipment. Stuff I don’t use or ever looked for.

Actually, I find some of them very interesting and even educational. Did you know they build huge commercial generators that run on Gas, Diesel or natural gas. If I had one delivered, I might be able to replace the local power company for three or four blocks. Why can’t they deliver these things to disaster areas. They have them on wheels. The can lift them in with hopter-choppers

Actually, I’d like to have a generator, but more in the 2 to 4 KW range. We do have power outages now and then, but I have a hard time letting go of the money when it is so infrequent, until we have an outage. It would be nice to have one for my Nissan EV too.

When I saw the ad for the skip loader, I spent a few minutes thinking of ways I might be able to use such a thing to make money. Obviously, some people do use them to make money. So picture me rubbing my scruffy little beard trying to think of someone that might need some dirt moved. Actually, I could use the thing for myself, but I don’t think I even have the money for it. If I had the money, I don’t think I’d want to let go of it.

You put the term tractor on the side of a machine and instantly the price goes up 25% or more. Commercial quality you know.

What I’d really like to borrow is one of those big machines that goes in, clamps onto a tree and severs just below where it is being held. Then the machine drives off with the tree in it’s grips. I have about 10 pine trees that ruin my lawn, drop needles on my roof and cause damage to my foundation. I don’t know anyone who has one. Even more, I’m not sure it would be able to get into my backyard. ( I suppose I could take down the fence temporarily.)

Maybe I need to use my regular browser and look for one of those machines. Perhaps I can get a deal for ten trees. The neat thing, all I would need to do is browse and they would come looking for me.

Meantime, I need to find a team to take down that pin oak tearing into my my foundation, before I have to look for someone who will fix my foundation.