117 Babylon Is Fallen - Second Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, 2012 [Click] Ah, such wonderful music! A number of pieces are linked together in YouTube. I had hoped to take up Sacred Harp in retirement; learning to read music and sing from it would be a wonderful accomplishment! But the one very small group in this area disbanded when the principals moved to the nexus of Sacred Harp in Arkansas, and I later discovered that I am not physically able to endure the volume of the real thing. Not only does the volume cause the music to dissolve into white noise for me, it is very painful. (I have a low threshold of pain.) It required several days for my hearing to [mostly] recover from a singing I attended in Seattle one evening. I think it took weeks to fully recover. Well, we can't have everything. But I recommend it to those blessed with good ears. ——Alan
Might he be told "We can do this the easy way or the hard way; your choice"? And extensive drug testing can be done on blood specimens; it takes a little longer, but is more definitive. For instance, testing urine will only detect the inactive metabolite of cocaine, but testing blood will detect that as well as the parent drug. Unfortunately, many government drug testing labs are very, very slow. The whole thing would be good for a vibrant chortle, though--- if it happens. -----Alan
Never thought of the 7/11 connection. I'm definitely up for a 34 oz orange slurpy!
Now, as you all know, my eyesight's not so hot. But I got the impression that this lady who is his probation officer is - well, of course, first and worst she's not male. On top of that, she's not white. Me thinks somebody is going to have a hard time being polite to his probation officer. I also have a sneaking suspicion it's not a smart move to piss off your probation officer. *cue evil chuckle and anticipatory rubbing of hands*
Reflecting on giving a certain von Schitzenpantz we all know and loathe enough rope to hang himself: Man alive, he's grabbing it by the fathom! By the time he's done, there'll probably be enough rope to wrap him up and mummify him!
I mean, he's his own worst enemy. Don't know how currant it was, but this morning I watched a video about how Trump is defaming E. Jeanne Carroll, again and how he'll probably be sued by her, again. Talk about a motormouth that's disconnected from the brain! Not that connection to the brain would do much good in Trump's case. Not only is he vial and totally despicable, but the man is clearly very ill. If it were anybody else, I might feel a twinge of pity, even with him being a crook. As it is, I imagine the saints themselves have a mighty hard time mustering the teensiest crum of compassion for him. He has locked himself in his own Hell, utterly cut off not only from God but from everything and everyone that isn't himself. And it's completely his own doing.
My sympathy for The Former Guy extends as far as essentially lifetime confinement in a government psychiatric institution, isolated from the homicidal maniacs. ----Alan
Looks like the UK Conservatives' time is up; *maybe* Labour has spent enough time in the wilderness. I rather liked the controversy a few years back about the subsidised duck houses and moat cleaning. Renovating the Palace of Windsor is going to be a monumental (and stupendously expensive) undertaking. The place is such a firetrap that inspectors search it throughout several times per day, and they still get rid of their sewage by simply flushing it into the Thames using a 19th Century cast iron pneumatic device. ----Alan
Got word this morning that the lovely woman we stayed with last weekend (in her 80s) has come down with Covid. Mild case, but we are watching for symptoms.
That news quickly paled when we got the call telling us that Wil's elder brother died overnight. He'd been ill for years from a stroke, and in very slow decline. Yesterday he fell and said he thought he was having another stroke...but he did not want to go to the hospital or call an ambulance. His daughter is a Hospice nurse and was present. They made plans to call Hospice this morning. While sleeping he died during the night. I think he was 78.
Thank you each and all. Wil and I are very grateful for your kindnesses. Susan, yeah...the calls you never want to get. And the sibling who always makes the calls is now the eldest living sibling.
Yep; Fresburg. I grew up in Fort Bragg, on the coast a little south of Cape Mendocino. Each summer it takes a while to get used to the hot weather. I use balanced salt tablets as necessary, and now that we are old we generally hide out indoors during hundred-plus degree weather. Our house is on the San Joaquin River bluff, so almost always gets a breeze from the river bottom, and thus is the coolest area in town, summer and winter both. We get just the perfect amount of snow. This area is about as free of earthquakes as one can get in California, and our house was built to the same standard applied to newly built houses in the vicinity of the San Andreas fault. ----Alan ----Alan
Alan, I noticed at one point last evening that your temp was 87º and your humidity was 30% while your dew point was 58. At that same time, it was 60º here, and our humidity was 94% while our dew point was 56. The funny thing was that your temp felt like 88º and mine just felt like 60º. That really surprised me.
Date: June 28, 2021. Weather: heat dome. Temperature: 108 degrees. Air conditioning: none. I didn't notice the dew point. I was too busy trying not to get heat prostration. --nordy
Aw, nordy, that was Wil's and my 47th anniversary. I dare say it was a lot cooler here, but actually, it might have been in the 90's. One anniversary we took the ferry across Lake Champlain and ate outside and it was hot enough to melt a brass monkey! We opted to drive back rather than take the ferry, just so we could use our car's A/C!
Andrew Jackson opined that "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." [I'm too lazy to check the quotation, but that's pretty close.] ----Alan
Research: Are These Andrew Jackson Quotes Accurate? [Click] “It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.” Alas: “Frequently cited, but no original source I’ve found.” ——Alan
Having accidentally closed for the third time the browser window, containing Wikipedia and other necessary tabs, I have decided to bow to the seemingly inevitable and end research for the day.
Studying up on Abraham Nemeth - a remarkable man! - preparatory to writing a quiz on him. Not only do I want to remedy the lack of quizzes on him, but this will be my first quiz in the People category - really out of my comfort zone - so I need to make sure it's perfect.
[I've wasted quite some time rambling on about FunTrivia quizzes, checking this and that, but there's no need to bore you nice folks with all that.]
We used to have big firecrackers (M-80's?) set off from time to time two or three doors down our street; when the two boys there moved out, that was the end of it. Hope your case is no worse than that. ----Alan
Nah, I think it's firecrackers from the next door neighbor who has hassled me since 2014. I call him Sh!tstain McFvckface. Maybe he's blow his own hand off. One can dream. -Susan
I got up and was a bit dizzy (no nausea). Using a cane and caution to get around. Oxygen saturation, pulse and blood pressure OK for me. Probably I have just been too inactive for too long today -----Alan
Those are going to look very nice!
ReplyDelete----Alan
117 Babylon Is Fallen - Second Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, 2012 [Click] Ah, such wonderful music! A number of pieces are linked together in YouTube. I had hoped to take up Sacred Harp in retirement; learning to read music and sing from it would be a wonderful accomplishment! But the one very small group in this area disbanded when the principals moved to the nexus of Sacred Harp in Arkansas, and I later discovered that I am not physically able to endure the volume of the real thing. Not only does the volume cause the music to dissolve into white noise for me, it is very painful. (I have a low threshold of pain.) It required several days for my hearing to [mostly] recover from a singing I attended in Seattle one evening. I think it took weeks to fully recover. Well, we can't have everything. But I recommend it to those blessed with good ears.
ReplyDelete——Alan
"Arkansas" should read "Alabama." Wikipedia: Sacred Harp [Click]
Delete—Alan
OMG AMAZING! Trump Now Forced to Take a Drug Test?! [Click] Quick display of photo of DJT's alleged probation officer.
ReplyDelete—Alan
I hope they still have to *watch* you pee so the Felon Trump can't pull a switch. -S
DeleteMight he be told "We can do this the easy way or the hard way; your choice"? And extensive drug testing can be done on blood specimens; it takes a little longer, but is more definitive. For instance, testing urine will only detect the inactive metabolite of cocaine, but testing blood will detect that as well as the parent drug. Unfortunately, many government drug testing labs are very, very slow. The whole thing would be good for a vibrant chortle, though--- if it happens.
Delete-----Alan
I should have said that *routine urine drug testing* only detects the inactive metabolite of cocaine (so establishes use but not influence).
Delete-----Alan
Never thought of the 7/11 connection. I'm definitely up for a 34 oz orange slurpy!
DeleteNow, as you all know, my eyesight's not so hot. But I got the impression that this lady who is his probation officer is - well, of course, first and worst she's not male. On top of that, she's not white. Me thinks somebody is going to have a hard time being polite to his probation officer. I also have a sneaking suspicion it's not a smart move to piss off your probation officer. *cue evil chuckle and anticipatory rubbing of hands*
Reflecting on giving a certain von Schitzenpantz we all know and loathe enough rope to hang himself: Man alive, he's grabbing it by the fathom! By the time he's done, there'll probably be enough rope to wrap him up and mummify him!
DeleteI mean, he's his own worst enemy. Don't know how currant it was, but this morning I watched a video about how Trump is defaming E. Jeanne Carroll, again and how he'll probably be sued by her, again. Talk about a motormouth that's disconnected from the brain! Not that connection to the brain would do much good in Trump's case. Not only is he vial and totally despicable, but the man is clearly very ill. If it were anybody else, I might feel a twinge of pity, even with him being a crook. As it is, I imagine the saints themselves have a mighty hard time mustering the teensiest crum of compassion for him. He has locked himself in his own Hell, utterly cut off not only from God but from everything and everyone that isn't himself. And it's completely his own doing.
I actually do start feeling sorry for him sometimes. Then he does something so outrageous that I go back to wishing him the worst. --nordy
DeleteMy sympathy for The Former Guy extends as far as essentially lifetime confinement in a government psychiatric institution, isolated from the homicidal maniacs.
Delete----Alan
Josh Marshall on the Washington Post [Click]
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Rishi Sunak’s D-day blunder and what it could mean for the UK election [Click] “The prime minister, already behind in the polls, skipped an international commemoration to record a TV interview.” He should have had the sense to show up if he had two broken legs. IMO
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Ooh, that's bad! You know how serious the Brits are about The War, quite apart from its being an unforgivable foreign faux pas.
DeleteLooks like the UK Conservatives' time is up; *maybe* Labour has spent enough time in the wilderness. I rather liked the controversy a few years back about the subsidised duck houses and moat cleaning. Renovating the Palace of Windsor is going to be a monumental (and stupendously expensive) undertaking. The place is such a firetrap that inspectors search it throughout several times per day, and they still get rid of their sewage by simply flushing it into the Thames using a 19th Century cast iron pneumatic device.
Delete----Alan
Video: Woman Put in Police Car on Train Tracks Settles for $8.5M [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Police in Burlington, Vermont, apologize to high school students after startling mock shooting demonstration
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely foolhardy of them, I'd say.
It has been my experience that many of the older police officers have better judgement than the younger ones. Not all of them, mind you.
Delete---Alan
Got word this morning that the lovely woman we stayed with last weekend (in her 80s) has come down with Covid. Mild case, but we are watching for symptoms.
ReplyDeleteThat news quickly paled when we got the call telling us that Wil's elder brother died overnight. He'd been ill for years from a stroke, and in very slow decline. Yesterday he fell and said he thought he was having another stroke...but he did not want to go to the hospital or call an ambulance. His daughter is a Hospice nurse and was present. They made plans to call Hospice this morning. While sleeping he died during the night. I think he was 78.
Those are never the calls you want to get. -Susan
DeleteOh, my. Give Wil my condolences.
Delete---Alan
I'm so sorry, Listener. Even if it is more or less expected it's still a shock.
DeleteAlways a shock even if you expect it, listener. I am very sorry. --nordy
DeleteThank you each and all. Wil and I are very grateful for your kindnesses.
DeleteSusan, yeah...the calls you never want to get.
And the sibling who always makes the calls is now the eldest living sibling.
My sympathies as well.
DeleteThanks, Bill/W.A.. Much appreciated.
DeletePredicted high temperature today 93F, but it is supposed to plunge into the 90's tomorrow.
ReplyDelete----Alan
Correction: 103 today.
DeleteAlan
Alan, you live in Fresno, correct? I was born and raised in Sacramento, and I never got used to that valley heat. --nordy
DeleteYep; Fresburg. I grew up in Fort Bragg, on the coast a little south of Cape Mendocino. Each summer it takes a while to get used to the hot weather. I use balanced salt tablets as necessary, and now that we are old we generally hide out indoors during hundred-plus degree weather. Our house is on the San Joaquin River bluff, so almost always gets a breeze from the river bottom, and thus is the coolest area in town, summer and winter both. We get just the perfect amount of snow. This area is about as free of earthquakes as one can get in California, and our house was built to the same standard applied to newly built houses in the vicinity of the San Andreas fault.
Delete----Alan
----Alan
When we feel a little earthquake, it is natural to wonder "who's getting it now?"
Delete----Alan
Alan, I noticed at one point last evening that your temp was 87º and your humidity was 30% while your dew point was 58. At that same time, it was 60º here, and our humidity was 94% while our dew point was 56. The funny thing was that your temp felt like 88º and mine just felt like 60º. That really surprised me.
DeleteDate: June 28, 2021. Weather: heat dome. Temperature: 108 degrees. Air conditioning: none. I didn't notice the dew point. I was too busy trying not to get heat prostration. --nordy
DeleteAw, nordy, that was Wil's and my 47th anniversary. I dare say it was a lot cooler here, but actually, it might have been in the 90's. One anniversary we took the ferry across Lake Champlain and ate outside and it was hot enough to melt a brass monkey! We opted to drive back rather than take the ferry, just so we could use our car's A/C!
DeleteIt was 98º here...!
DeleteAnd humid!
DeleteSmallest known great ape, which lived 11m years ago, found in Germany [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Sounds as if this great ape was smaller than homo floresiensis, who was described as 3 1/2 feet. Both are homonids, though. --nordy
DeleteThat's hominid, says the copy editor who can't spell. 8-) nordy
DeleteAndrew Jackson opined that "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." [I'm too lazy to check the quotation, but that's pretty close.]
Delete----Alan
I'll have to remember that one!
DeleteResearch: Are These Andrew Jackson Quotes Accurate? [Click]
Delete“It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
Alas: “Frequently cited, but no original source I’ve found.”
——Alan
Having accidentally closed for the third time the browser window, containing Wikipedia and other necessary tabs, I have decided to bow to the seemingly inevitable and end research for the day.
ReplyDeleteStudying up on Abraham Nemeth - a remarkable man! - preparatory to writing a quiz on him. Not only do I want to remedy the lack of quizzes on him, but this will be my first quiz in the People category - really out of my comfort zone - so I need to make sure it's perfect.
[I've wasted quite some time rambling on about FunTrivia quizzes, checking this and that, but there's no need to bore you nice folks with all that.]
Not bored!
DeleteVideo: Prosecutor on Trump AVOIDING prison pending appeal [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Either random firecrackers or gun shots next door. Don't like it. -Susan
ReplyDeleteWe used to have big firecrackers (M-80's?) set off from time to time two or three doors down our street; when the two boys there moved out, that was the end of it. Hope your case is no worse than that.
Delete----Alan
It's good you posted about it. Always good to document the time you heard the shots.
DeleteMeidas Touch Video: Misinformation attempt; also Judge Merchan permits Todd Blanche to attend Trump probation officer interview [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Nah, I think it's firecrackers from the next door neighbor who has hassled me since 2014. I call him Sh!tstain McFvckface. Maybe he's blow his own hand off. One can dream. -Susan
ReplyDeleteI got up and was a bit dizzy (no nausea). Using a cane and caution to get around. Oxygen saturation, pulse and blood pressure OK for me. Probably I have just been too inactive for too long today
ReplyDelete-----Alan
Take care!
DeleteMSNBC: Prosecuting Donald Trump; Witness to History [Click] 44 minutes; excellent!
ReplyDelete—Alan