MONTANA EQUALS GREECE

During the first hour after the caffeine hits the brain, and the daily dosages of blood pressure pills start working, the mind is likely to do some very strange things. The synapses haven't assumed their regular routes, the hatches aren't battened down, the sails are flapping a bit. And for quite inexplicable reason I tried connecting a Fibonacci sequence to the wildfires in Montana and Greece. Which doesn't work, and there is no logical link.

Greece has numerous famous culturally significant sites.
Montana has beer, Billings, and grizzly bears.
It is the most Wyoming of states.
Other than Wyoming.

Billings is located where Clark's Fork Bottom once used to be. I found this out by reading Wikipedia. I don't need to read Wikipedia about Greece, naturally, because it cropped up in multiple contexts during grammar and high school classes. Montana didn't.
Which tells you that I went to school before the nineties.

The period between Fork Bottom and Billings was lawless, churchless, and liquour fuelled.
Things went downhill from there.

In recent years, a publication named Billings the best small city in which to start a business. Despite there being no resemblance whatsoever to any culturally significant urban centres anywhere else in the world. When you find an opening, fill it.

In fact, the only reason why it is even floating around on the surface of my mind is the recent wildfires. Last week Greece had wildfires. So did, and does, Northern California, but I haven't been thinking about the frontier zone locally, just noting that the frontier zone of both Greece and Montana are also burning up.

Combustibility. And panic.

Despite the remarkable similarity of San Francisco to Athens (good food, lots of wine, and eccentric philosophers everywhere), we do not need to worry about wildfires here. Unless they come roaring up the peninsula. But we look on in horror.



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