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Happy Birthday to my second son! Who never had a birthday cake without a trick or treater knocking on the door!
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DeleteThat’s actually a cool, unique memory for him! 🎃
Really? Wish I'd been as smart as that mother in The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood, who gave her kids two cakes--one in the morning and one at night. . . . .
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Lots [too much?] of interesting political news on politicalwire.com [Click] this morning.
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Two from Talking Points Memo:
ReplyDeleteIs A Two State Solution Really No Longer Possible? [Click]
Paralysis at the Top in Israel [Click]
——Alan
Jimmy Red corn groats [Click] This is more about cuisine than food, but is a good story of survival/revival of an American foodstuff.
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Even with ordinary corn, I like groats-- good groats are hard to find in this part of the US, just as good coffee is said to be hard to find in the north-central states, and has brown potatoes back East. I remember the groats and "home fries" in a restaurant with a Southern cook where I used to eat lunch in the east SF Bay Area.
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Not long ago I read a story about a once-popular variety of rice being discovered growing on an island off the coast of Georgia or South Carolina; as memory serves me, it originated in West Africa.
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A typo in the link title. The article is about grits, not groats, which I had to look up. Wikipedia never mentions corn groats, although they are surly possible.
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DeleteI used the archaic spelling just for the heck of it [AKA sheer cussedness]; "groats" has long been pronounced "grits." That is an old illustration of the incongruities of English spelling---writing "groats" and saying "grits." Not quite as amusing as GB Shaw's spelling of "fish" as "ghoti," though.
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I am reminded of Andrew Jackson's observation that "it's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." [grin]
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But when you spell the word like a different word, it becomes comfusing. Grits are not groats.
DeleteSome from The Atlantic:
ReplyDeleteThe Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy [Click] “Private equity has made one-fifth of the market effectively invisible to investors, the media, and regulators.” This is of a piece with the gutting of the Glass-Steagal Act back during the Clinton administration.
The 1970s Economic Theory That Needs to Die [Click] “Turns out you can tame inflation without triggering a recession. Will the Federal Reserve accept the good news?”
Whatever Happened to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? [Click]
The Solar-Panel Backlash Is Here [Click] On sunny days, some states can waste lots of clean energy. Their response [in some cases] has been to make panels less affordable.
—Alan
Detailed report on Alabamian Trump supporter’s phone threats. [Click]
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Carpel tunnel? ALL the women in my family--mother, all three sisters. Mama did nothing; youngest sister had operation, next sis wore mitts to keep her from bending, I self hypnotized my hands into flat positions before sleep, waking and putting them back just so. (long time sleep habit of grabbing top of blanket and curling it up under my chin) When I broke the curl habit, the pain on waking departed. No cost, no pain, no surgery.
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I was not about to let anyone cut on me unless it was absolutely necessary; it came close, but didn't quite get there. Biggest problem was lots of writing with ball point pens and small volume pipettes of a type that came into general use in laboratories about when I started working full time. Tried about every type of ergonomic pen there was (eventually also fountain pen--that helped a lot). Did my best to work smart, traded off working left and right handed, used braces, etc (seemed very helpful to wear hand braces while sleeping). After decades I realized it was not carpal tunnel syndrome, but most likely tendonitis. Got WAY better after I retired. Still some pain in both hands, but not disabling. I can twist off the cap on a vacuum-packed jar of pickles again.
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Finally realized that the moderately long-standing pain in my knees and legs (right worse than left) was coming from tense muscles, which are yielding to massage, mostly by my sweetie-- might be better called acupressure. And here I thought it was just because I was getting old.
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Snow predicted for tonight! Just a dusting. It'll do!
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Just checked. Prediction here is "light snow showers." Current temp (11 pm) is 32F.
DeleteHere there has been just a bit of mist rising from the river in the early morning, that disappears before long. We picked the last of our persimmons this afternoon.
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Trump’s own kids in for rude awakening in Court [Click] Lay in your refreshments!
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