Christmas week. So many people ill and in the hospital, so many people dying, so many more people going to needlessly risk their own health and the health of others over the next 10 days. Happy holidays everyone, because January could be really bad.
My niece called me to see if I wanted to meet with her and her sisters in a restaurant on Martin Luther King Day in January, which has become a minor family tradition. I said it would make more sense to have a Zoom meeting that day. She seemed relieved. Over the weekend, she left a Christmas present for me on my doorstep. I'm guessing it's a medical-grade mask. I have plenty of decent masks and don't think I need it, but certainly in this case it's the thought that counts.
I don't know whether Rudy Gulliani got out of the hospital yet, but he's been tweeting about more pointless appeals to the Supreme Court. Not bashful about lining his pockets with Trump's legal fund, is he?
Speaking of the Cry-Baby-in-Chief. His plans are still a matter of conversation. Will he resign at the last minute to have Pence pardon him, or will he tough it out and hope a self-pardon won't be thrown out by the courts? I certainly would like to see a subpoena after the 20th to make public the donors list for "Save America." I wouldn't be surprised if Putin donated in some form through some channel. I wonder if Donald really expects to start a TV network to rival FOX news. "Save America" could run out of money very quickly if he's not careful. He's already got a minor court case against him moving into Mar-a-Lago permanently. He'll win, but more money will go into lawyers' pockets. Melania has been looking for a school for their kid. How would you like the headache of having him in your ritzy private school? Home schooling, Melania, home schooling.
Both my universities' football teams are in bowl games. Ohio State is in the playoffs, which is kind of a big yawn. Missouri, they say, got to choose the game it wanted. Interestingly, they chose not to go to a more prestigious bowl game in Florida, but instead to a game closer to home that some of the teams' family members might feel better about traveling to. Missouri only had a break-even regular season, so the Florida games are stuck with some serious losers from the same conference.
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shadowkat I did see Jupiter and Saturn last night. It cost nothing more than what would have been a few idle minutes. It was a more impressive sight than Halley's comet back in 1986. But it was still more a fun thing than a scientifically important event.
If it sounds like I'm depressed I'm not and I do wish everyone a fine, if quiet holiday season.
My niece called me to see if I wanted to meet with her and her sisters in a restaurant on Martin Luther King Day in January, which has become a minor family tradition. I said it would make more sense to have a Zoom meeting that day. She seemed relieved. Over the weekend, she left a Christmas present for me on my doorstep. I'm guessing it's a medical-grade mask. I have plenty of decent masks and don't think I need it, but certainly in this case it's the thought that counts.
I don't know whether Rudy Gulliani got out of the hospital yet, but he's been tweeting about more pointless appeals to the Supreme Court. Not bashful about lining his pockets with Trump's legal fund, is he?
Speaking of the Cry-Baby-in-Chief. His plans are still a matter of conversation. Will he resign at the last minute to have Pence pardon him, or will he tough it out and hope a self-pardon won't be thrown out by the courts? I certainly would like to see a subpoena after the 20th to make public the donors list for "Save America." I wouldn't be surprised if Putin donated in some form through some channel. I wonder if Donald really expects to start a TV network to rival FOX news. "Save America" could run out of money very quickly if he's not careful. He's already got a minor court case against him moving into Mar-a-Lago permanently. He'll win, but more money will go into lawyers' pockets. Melania has been looking for a school for their kid. How would you like the headache of having him in your ritzy private school? Home schooling, Melania, home schooling.
Both my universities' football teams are in bowl games. Ohio State is in the playoffs, which is kind of a big yawn. Missouri, they say, got to choose the game it wanted. Interestingly, they chose not to go to a more prestigious bowl game in Florida, but instead to a game closer to home that some of the teams' family members might feel better about traveling to. Missouri only had a break-even regular season, so the Florida games are stuck with some serious losers from the same conference.
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shadowkat I did see Jupiter and Saturn last night. It cost nothing more than what would have been a few idle minutes. It was a more impressive sight than Halley's comet back in 1986. But it was still more a fun thing than a scientifically important event.If it sounds like I'm depressed I'm not and I do wish everyone a fine, if quiet holiday season.
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Back at ya sir! Cheers!
Wanted to check out the Jupiter/Saturn thing, but it's been very cloudy here the last several nights, so no go for that one. We have a lot of light pollution here also, and that's pretty much all the time. I often look up at the night sky here, where even on a clear night the number of visible stars is a tiny fraction of the ones I could see when I was little.
Heh... that's one of the better memories of my youth-- lying on my back on a blanket in our back yard at night, just staring up at the sky. Never lost its wonder.
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I remember when the St. Louis airport, not more than two miles from our house, shut down at dusk. Can't remember where we'd been, but on the way home we stopped at the farm owned by friends, just across the highway and uphill from the airport. It was after dark, just my parents went in to discuss something. We kids stayed outside and had the most beautiful view of the stars. (In daylight you could see the entire airport from that driveway!) We lived in the woods, so our view of the sky was much more limited. By the time I was in high school there was a bright glow visible from the airport all night low in the sky at our house. The farm was still there, but I can't imagine being able to see anything at night outside there, but the airport and the planes taking off and landing.