Sunday, March 30, 2025

Spring Cupcakes at the Restaurant

 




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  1. Thanks, Alan! We did not lose power! In fact, the weather paused long enough for us to meet VT*Grand and her S.O. at the UVM Royall Tyler Theatre for their production of "She Loves Me"! It was extremely well done!! In fact, VT*Grand said it was the BEST musical she has ever seen...! And, mind you, she has been IN a number of musicals, has seen musicals in Boston and NYC, and is usually highly critical being also on tech crew! Ha! So this was highest praise indeed! But the whole cast was so talented and there were no flubbed lines, and oh my goodness the singing was resplendent! So, that turned out to be an awesome birthday gift for her (from last September!).

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  2. I'm NOT a lover of frosting AT. ALL. ~ but I'm sorely tempted to go back to that restaurant and eat one of those cupcakes! Ha!

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  3. Sooo, we got 5.25" of snow then a pause and now we are expecting an ice storm. Should be an interesting Sunday. Many churches have cancelled in-person service for tomorrow, opting for Zoom only, in hopes of keeping people from driving on icy roads.

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    1. We had a little rain here this morning (currently 0819 hrs), with more predicted tomorrow, and more than that the day after, then dry weather.
      -----Alan

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  4. Louisiana voters reject all four constitutional amendments, despite Gov. Jeff Landry's support [Click] To hear him tell it, two thirds of La voters must be "far-left liberals."

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    1. I have a couple more words for them to consider: "recession" and "depression."
      ----Alan

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    2. I finally got my hair cut Friday and the barbar as usual had business news on TV. The anaylst said, "'we are already in stagflation," but the person he was interviewing pushed back. Not yet stagflation or at least not loke under Nixon

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  6. GOP May Pass Budget Bills Whose Numbers Don’t Match [Click] What could possibly go wrong? Reminds me of the Keystone Kops.
    ---Alan

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  7. Marine Le Pen’s future to be decided as embezzlement verdict arrives [Click] "Far-right leader could be barred from standing for presidency if she is convicted over alleged fake jobs scam"
    ---Alan

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    1. Really? I thought there were no parameters on the Presidency anymore.

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  8. We ordered a new LCD TV yesterday; the picture quality may be even better than that of our (20 years?) old plasma TV. For a long time after we bought our plasma TV, it remained far better quality than LCD.
    -----Alan

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  9. A devastating nerve disease stalks a mountain village [Click] "Neurologists have grappled with a cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in France, where a fondness for a toxic wild mushroom may hold the answer"
    ----Alan

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    1. It's shown up in diverse places...including around a lake in NH. And sometimes in a few areas around Lake Champlain. Docs think it's related to cyanobacteria (green algae blooms).

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  10. The Guardian: Democrats have never been so angry. Who will step up and lead them? [Click] I have been watching the Democratic Party move farther and farther to the right, occupying parts of the political spectrum that had been clearly Republican, for most of my adult life. I have long felt abandoned in a gerrymandered Republican House district.
    ----Alan

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  11. Yesterday and the day before, I was SO sore---everywhere or close to it; this morning I woke up and it was largely gone. A virus, maybe? Weather is pretty nice this afternoon; partly cloudy, still rather cool and breezy for gardening.
    ---Alan

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  12. Stagflation:
    Stagflation in the 1970s [Click] Not clear to me on the first reading.

    The Nixon Shock [Click]

    Gerald Ford [Click] Word "stagflation" invented.

    President Jimmy Carter's Economic Policies and Accomplishments [Click] Includes reference to The Volker Shock.

    Stagflation came to an end under Reagan, [Click] presumably because of keeping Volker on rather than Regan's Voodoo Economics.

    Note: The other day I noticed Trump or one of his acolytes touting the Laffer Curve.

    ----Alan

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  13. Stagflation:
    Stagflation in the 1970s [Click] Not clear to me on the first reading.

    The Nixon Shock [Click]

    Gerald Ford [Click] Word "stagflation" invented.

    President Jimmy Carter's Economic Policies and Accomplishments [Click] Includes reference to The Volker Shock.

    Stagflation came to an end under Reagan, [Click] presumably because of keeping Volker on rather than Regan's Voodoo Economics.

    Note: The other day I noticed Trump or one of his acolytes touting the Laffer Curve.

    ----Alan

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    1. They have no shame.
      I do hope their constituents keep trying, though.

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