FireMonkey
Semi-retired Geo/Archaeo/Hydrogeo-logist, boatman, resistor, zen-gineer, made of stardust, lubricated with whiskey and whimsy. Patreon and CoSoPRO
Joined Nov 2017
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To the I'm-not-voting-because-nothing-gets-done crowd:
Do you know how to make Congress work again? Put a majority of 218+ Dem and Independent reps in the House, and a "super" majority of 60+ in the Senate.
Do you know how they would get there? Voting.
You can't accomplish this if you don't vote.
Good morning CoSovians. 🌞
Travel day. Slept little to wake at 5 for early flight. Then all day in Old San Juan before the next flight this evening. Then overnight layover and 2 more flights before arrival. I love OSJ and that will be a mini-vacation. Overnight in an airport not so much.
Travel is fun. /s
Here's another benefit of LEDs. The power is out, but apparently a few volts are rolling in because my LEDs are on and my ceiling fans are turning. Slowly, but I bumped them up to high and they're moving at about slow speed. Okay even as I typed this the power came back on. But that's pretty neat.
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The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
Yesterday I put BroomHilda upstairs to clean up while I went out. Later that evening I thought to look for her, probably out of gas and looking for her home base which was downstairs, she was nowhere to be found.
Today I went out on the ledge looking and found her hiding around the corner. She had to open a screen door and drop down an inch and a half to get out there. I don't think I overwork her, just a couple times a week. I think she's online planning a strike with others. Watch your vacs!
Good morning my fine CoSovians. Take some time this day to sit a minute or two, or longer, quietly contemplating no-thing.
A couple of thoughts from Alan Watts to start your ruminations off. "This is it, and that's all."
And "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
☮️ and 💙 everyone.
If only we could follow suit with TFG. #politics
"Former Pakistan President Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of leaking state secrets; ruling comes ahead of Feb. 8 national elections."
Wouldn't the band name be The Smythes?
Bodega cats waiting for takeout at the back door to the Chinese restaurant
Practicing Qat Zing-Tao.
The art of motionless activity.
@Alfred what is the collective name for a group of ravens, or a pair, which is more usual.
Practice makes perfect...😁 
"In a prior study, the researchers also assessed driving ability during a simulation, and notably they found that daily cannabis consumers had an average five times the THC concentration in their blood after the 30-minute mark compared to occasional users—yet the latter group “showed evidence of decrement in their driving skills, whereas that wasn’t statistically significant in the daily users.”"
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/scientists-develop-new-method-to-test-for-recent-marijuana-use-with-96-accuracy-in-federally-funded-driving-simulation-study/#:~:text=In%20a%20prior,the%20daily%20users.%E2%80%9D
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has a unique opportunity to kick some badly neeglected legal proceedings in to gear while AG Garland is out with back surgery....just saying. I don't know who she is or how inclined she would be, but wouldn't that be a hoot? #politics
Memory is such a fickle thing; "Stepped on a pop top, cut my heel had to cruise on back home..."
My collection from my walk down the beach yesterday, picked up an antique. For all you young-uns out there confused by the Jimmy Buffet lyrics;
🎵 Cut my heel on a pop-top, had to cruise on back home.🎶
Alrighty then. 6 hours of sleep and here comes the sun! Good morning folks. Let's make it a day to be proud of. Coffee, eat your Wheaties, and git 'er done! ✌️and 🫶 everybody!
Good morning CoSo! ☕
Spent yesterday pm finding and booking flights. have to return to CO to do election work for late Feb/Mar, then return. Used AA points outbound, then I found return flights 3 weeks later from $98 to $117 and a bit more. Began booking, they went up to ~$550 as I booked. Had to spend hours finagling, and finally got an acceptable "hacker*" flight for just over $200. (*2 separate bookings via KIWI) which took a couple hours to "confirm" with both airlines. Spg break price incr?
Another thought I've had is that if I have a column dedicated to #subject, then #subject should be filtered out of my other columns. Otherwise I see the same post multiple times. Like, My Friends would't also show up in the Firehose.
I have a politics/Ukraine column that could be "pulled out" of the other columns.
Am I just being that guy?
Apologies to J for perhaps nitpicking on his wonderful site.
✌️and🤟 everyone.
FireMonkey
Semi-retired Geo/Archaeo/Hydrogeo-logist, boatman, resistor, zen-gineer, made of stardust, lubricated with whiskey and whimsy. Patreon and CoSoPRO
Joined Nov 2017