Compass Rose
After we gave the Lifetime Achievement Award Trophy to the person who had run the Sailing School for 35 of its 42 years, I painted over the Compass Rose, which I first painted on the Sailing School porch in 2015. I painted over it with the gray deck paint exactly so that the pirate who stole the lease to the land could not have any benefit of it. But photos remain...!
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Annnnnd, that's a wrap...
REGAN Vest: Inside Denmark's secret nuclear bunker [Click]
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The long read: The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos? [Click] “Since being laid low with the virus more than a year ago, Catherine Heymans can only operate in half-hour bursts. But her work could still change the way we understand the universe.”
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P.S.: Definitely a long read, but it gives me some perspective on and understanding of “the crisis in cosmology.”
Couple unearth one of world’s greatest fossil finds in mid-Wales [Click] “Discovery could help plug gaps in understanding of evolution after Cambrian explosion more than 500m years ago”
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It looks to me like Ukraine is playing mind games on the Russians; [Click] they are having effects on regional governments [Click] and Putin himself. [Click] I won’t hazard a guess where the main thrust of the Ukrainian counteroffensive will fall.
ReplyDeleteIt looked to me like Russia got suckered from the beginning. None of the reports are to be believed.
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DeleteUkraine’s front lines are abuzz, and regular explosions are hitting vital Russian targets in occupied areas
Hoping all's well with puddle. She hasn't posted in a bit.
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Silly me. I must have posted that from the wrong browser.
DeleteOn May 11th, DT's Title 42 ends. 1,500 US troops to be deployed to southern border
ReplyDeleteFYI: Our credit card had a hold put on it after somebody in Greece tried to use our number. So now we wait ten days to receive new cards. It's so dumb because they don't get to use it anyway, given the way the system catches these things.
ReplyDeleteI have three credit cards, two of which I use for little more than once a month small purchases; sometimes one or the other will not work well for foreign purchases, so I switch to the other.
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Should have said that comes in handy to deal with the rare blocked fraudulent attempted use.
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Alan: Only thre cards? I have nine. Well, five personal cards in my name or joingly with Penny, one in Penny's name, and three business cards.
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DeleteWe have two. But one is business related and the other is for usual things. We also have debit cards which we use more often.
‘Orcs’ and ‘Rashists’: Ukraine’s new language of war [Click] “From President Zelenskyy down, Ukrainian officials have come up with increasingly frank ways to articulate the conflict with Russia.”
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DeleteThe Atlantic: The Counteroffensive [Click]
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Knowing that Crimea is being built into a fortress, the Ukrainians talk about the “political military” liberation of Crimea, not a purely military counteroffensive. Once they have cut off the roads, railroads, and waterways to the peninsula, and targeted the military infrastructure with drones, the presumption is that many Russian inhabitants, especially recent immigrants, will become convinced that they would be better off living somewhere else. Some have reportedly fled already, following an explosion on the Kerch Strait Bridge . . . and other explosions on the peninsula. “Crimea we will take without a fight,” [Ukrainian defense mister Oleksii] Reznikov told us.
An excellent look into past, present, and future of Ukraine.
—Alan
I just read a short article on Beltane, which properly should be celebrated May 6 or 7 but is today celebrated May 1. The description of lusty fertility rites sounds very much like what I had previously seen associated with the maypole and Robin Hood, although without mentioning either.
ReplyDeleteHouse Democrats Move to Force a Debt Limit Increase [Click]
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