I think he's way too cheap to have bribed the deputies at the jail--they just didn't care to measure his height or weight. They had spaces to fill in on the form, and any numbers would do. ----Alan
Dad has made the appointment at the pharmacy for his over-sixty-five booster. It remains unclear when he can get the new Covid shot. He's on it though.
Must be the one not yet issued, discussed in the "Extensive update on Covid" at the start of this subthread. And thanks for making me aware of the new RSV vaccine, Bill. I will get it as soon as I can. ---Alan
Cat, make sure Dad knows that if he gets the bivalent booster in September, he will have to wait five months to get the new booster available in October.
Coastal residents fear ‘hideous’ seawalls will block waterfront views [Click] The story fails to mention that the permeability of the rock under Miami means that when tides are high enough, water rises out of the ground well behind the shoreline. The effect is not limited to Miami; another notable example is the rock fractured by the ancient asteroid impact near (or in?) Chesapeake Bay. —-Alan
None of us here will live to see it, but I am sure there will be many fortunes made by recycling building materials from submerged parts of cities, as well as from developing replacement real estate at higher elevations (for cities that are on major trade routes). ----Alan
People who know Chicago history will see an alternative: build higher. New streets a storey above the old ones, and maybe eventually streets a storey above those. You'll still need walls to keep water out of the old streets, but they won't block the view.
The now underground parts of Chicago play an important part in a few of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden novels. And I have a vague recollection of similar things being true in other American cities.
There may have been a few jacked up, but for the most part the original ground floor bedame the basement and a new entrance was constructed on the new street level.
Last night I saw every hour on the clock multiple times. Not sure I actually slept. However! All day I have been fine, so I imagine I nodded off for ten or fifteen minutes a number of times. No idea. We took friends sailing today for three hours, had Root*Center*Son over and watched three episodes of Only Murders in the Building. I'm just about to try to sleep again. Wish me luck! 🍀
My mother always said that if she'd been born black (Knee-grow), she'd have been Nat Turner. I believed her: she was passionate. . . . As is was, use of the N----- word got you cayenne pepper on your tongue. Only thing it was ever used for as far as I remember. . . .
He may be innumerate as well as illiterate Shady lawyers just exploit him
ReplyDeleteI think he's way too cheap to have bribed the deputies at the jail--they just didn't care to measure his height or weight. They had spaces to fill in on the form, and any numbers would do.
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Read somewhere that *his* staff supplied the numbers, lol! Fits. . . .
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Yes.
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Yes, an aid filled in the forms. He couldn't even do that for himself.
DeleteExtensive update on Covid [Click]
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Dad has made the appointment at the pharmacy for his over-sixty-five booster. It remains unclear when he can get the new Covid shot. He's on it though.
DeleteNew COVID shot? Is this the one that was new back in December or the one that's supposed to be coming along in a month or two?
DeleteMust be the one not yet issued, discussed in the "Extensive update on Covid" at the start of this subthread. And thanks for making me aware of the new RSV vaccine, Bill. I will get it as soon as I can.
Delete---Alan
Cat, make sure Dad knows that if he gets the bivalent booster in September, he will have to wait five months to get the new booster available in October.
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DeleteTPM: With Streaming Services It’s The Same Old Story [Click] Low charges to build market share, followed by a shakeout.
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i.e., decreased selection and rising costs for consumers.
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BBC: Major cities are now with filled with empty office buildings. What happens next? [Click]
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‘We can do one big celebration’: Ohio couple shares birthday with new twins [Click] “Scierra Blair and her fiance, Jose Ervin Jr, were born a year apart on 18 August, and newborn twins were born on their joint birthday.”
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‘I’m not the guilty one’: the water protector facing jail time for trying to stop a pipeline [Click]
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Multiple Aircraft Reported Destroyed at Kursk Airbase After Attack by Cardboard Drones: SYPAQ UAV [Click]
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Evidence found of mass execution of German soldiers by French Resistance after D-Day [Click]
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Yikes!
DeleteCoastal residents fear ‘hideous’ seawalls will block waterfront views [Click] The story fails to mention that the permeability of the rock under Miami means that when tides are high enough, water rises out of the ground well behind the shoreline. The effect is not limited to Miami; another notable example is the rock fractured by the ancient asteroid impact near (or in?) Chesapeake Bay.
ReplyDelete—-Alan
None of us here will live to see it, but I am sure there will be many fortunes made by recycling building materials from submerged parts of cities, as well as from developing replacement real estate at higher elevations (for cities that are on major trade routes).
Delete----Alan
People who know Chicago history will see an alternative: build higher. New streets a storey above the old ones, and maybe eventually streets a storey above those. You'll still need walls to keep water out of the old streets, but they won't block the view.
DeleteQuite so; there is something similar in Seattle; tourists can take tours of the now subterranean parts of the old town.
Delete----Alan
The now underground parts of Chicago play an important part in a few of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden novels. And I have a vague recollection of similar things being true in other American cities.
DeleteThe buildings in Chicago were jacked up, as memory serves me. That was before the Chicago system of building skyscrapers was developed.
DeleteThere may have been a few jacked up, but for the most part the original ground floor bedame the basement and a new entrance was constructed on the new street level.
DeleteI stand corrected.
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Trump Wacko Co-Defendant Just Screwed [all the others] [Click]
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I definitely would not want to go to trial with Cydny Powell!
DeleteAnton Petrov: Exotic Object Found by JWST Solves a Major Black Hole Mystery: UHZ-1 [Click]
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Glenn Kirschner: Two big court hearings on Monday: Trump's DC trial date to be set; & Mark Meadows mockery in Georgia [Click] Oh, and TFG’s DC release on bond might be revoked for violation of Georgia law. Could be interesting.
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Last night I saw every hour on the clock multiple times. Not sure I actually slept. However! All day I have been fine, so I imagine I nodded off for ten or fifteen minutes a number of times. No idea.
ReplyDeleteWe took friends sailing today for three hours, had Root*Center*Son over and watched three episodes of Only Murders in the Building. I'm just about to try to sleep again. Wish me luck! 🍀
Wishing!
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Today's weather--
ReplyDeleteHi: 69°F
Me? HAPPY!
My mother always said that if she'd been born black (Knee-grow), she'd have been Nat Turner. I believed her: she was passionate. . . . As is was, use of the N----- word got you cayenne pepper on your tongue. Only thing it was ever used for as far as I remember. . . .
BTW when did negro become a dirty word? It was good enough for Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King...
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