Hot and humid.<\/p>\n
Less hot yesterday by the end of the day, but furnace hot for most of it.\u00a0 Just standing outdoors was enough to soak my shirt with sweat.<\/p>\n
We spent the morning at swim practice, hit the school for the free lunch for the kids (mini pizzas), and then I was free to work on stuff around the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Cleaned the pool.\u00a0 Did some garden work.\u00a0 Picked up the yard.\u00a0 Cleaned and put a couple of things away.\u00a0 Hid from the heat until I felt normal again, then back outside sorting inventory to take to this week’s auction.\u00a0 Which is what I’ll be doing later today, dropping off several bins of stuff.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ran some errands for my wife.<\/p>\n
Boy howdy it was hot.<\/p>\n
The news is full of idiots.\u00a0 COVID parties.\u00a0 FFS.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile all the nation state stuff is still happening.\u00a0 Players are still moving the pieces on the board.\u00a0 What haven’t we heard anything about lately?*\u00a0 I’m reasonably sure that the distraction is made to order for some of the players.\u00a0\u00a0 Elephants dancing.\u00a0 Nervous mice.<\/p>\n
One of the newsletters I get lists “Line of Duty” deaths for fire\/police and it was a bit of a shock to see 2 of the 20 were in Houston.\u00a0 One was an HPD helo pilot that went down (possibly to hostile fire) in north Houston, and the other was a deputy that got blue on blued during a call in Fort Bend.\u00a0 They are counting COVID deaths as LOD, and they are roughly equal to the gunshot deaths for the last couple of months.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s been a heavier than normal couple of months too.<\/p>\n
The celebration of Independence Day is coming up.\u00a0 Bob used it as a convenient marker for his switch to Linux, which was never quite complete.\u00a0 I don’t have any personal observances, but I think our founding fathers** would be horrified and angry beyond belief at what we’ve done with their new country.\u00a0 This used to be the one purely enjoyable, unabashedly celebratory holiday of the summer.\u00a0 But the taint of irony has cast a pall on even that day.<\/p>\n
Take what joy you can.\u00a0 We are currently living in the good old days.<\/p>\n
Keep your eyes open.\u00a0 Keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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*GWOT, scourge of islam, global financial crisis, etc<\/p>\n
**not zers, or trans anything, nor co-parenting, but FATHERS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hot and humid.<\/p>\n
Less hot yesterday by the end of the day, but furnace hot for most of it.\u00a0 Just standing outdoors was enough to soak my shirt with sweat.<\/p>\n
We spent the morning at swim practice, hit the school for the free lunch for the kids (mini pizzas), and then I was free to work on stuff around the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Cleaned the pool.\u00a0 Did some garden work.\u00a0 Picked up the yard.\u00a0<\/p>\n