Cast is off and replaced by a supporting boot that I can take off in bed. This is a considerable improvement in my quality of life.
How is LB's mother doing?
She gets her cast off on Tuesday and is quivering with impatience. She's getting around very well on one of those knee-scooters, though -- we went for a walk yesterday and I was hard put to it not to break into a trot to keep up with her.
After her foot heals, there's nothing stopping her from riding around in a regular scooter.
She's got the push-off and coast thing the kids do with theirs down. I should try to make her wear a helmet.
Kids on campus are riding electric scooters (the kind you stand on) and hoover boards in the street. Nobody has died yet, or if they have big Little Wheel is keeping it out of the news.
I mean, in the before time. I don't know what they are doing now.
Hoover boards are appropriate for the new Depression.
Woody Guthrie did pretty well with it.
His guitar had +5 against fascists.
Joe Biden invited me to a senior to seniors phone bank.
I'm several months away from getting my AARP letter.
Maybe they know my blood pressure and cholesterol are carefully controlled by pharmaceuticals?
I had my minor surgery on Friday with no trouble. Still haven't gotten the results for the COVID test on Tuesday.
I got a second phone call from the state of Texas contact tracing division, informing me that Ace's pre-surgery Covid test from June 3rd was positive. This time I told them confidently that it was definitely negative, and they promised to update their files.
Congratulations on joining the ten-toes club.
The least-played character class.
Because even in D&D nature abhors a vacuum.
I have discovered the most wonderful place name in England. When I win the lottery I will buy a house there simply to be able to give my address as "Woefuldane Bottom"
20: "Escarpment" is @ pretty great term too.
It was 99 degrees in Oakland. I'm on record as liking hot weather but it's so warm in our third floor apartment I am awake at almost 3 am.
20. Is Minchinghampton pronounced "Minging-ton"?
22: Oakland is generally warmer than SF, right? You don't have a window AC unit?
No, generally it's not an issue so we don't have a window unit. It's only been quite this hot once since we moved here but if we are here another summer, or rather another September since July and August frequently find me wearing a fleece hoodie indoors, we will have to get one. We do have an air filter since days and days of smoky air per summer are now standard. Another day in paradise.
Since you're inexperienced, remember- leaving the fridge or freezer door open doesn't work unless you mount it in a window first.
20: Only if you can live in No. 1.
23: "Minging-tongue," obvsly.
Socially constructing gender is once again making the world burn.
If your penis's entry into the world isn't marked by dozens of people losing their homes, do you even have a dick?
So our local public school district has decided to reduce transmission risk by shortening the school day from 7 to 4 1/2 hours: 8:15 to 12:45. Instead of nine periods of 45 minutes daily, including lunch, there are 5 per day, with a much shorter lunch break (to be taken outdoors if possible). Students have signed up for 7 classes, so each week 2 of their classes don't meet, which sucks for continuity. And if it goes all year, it means every class will be 5/7 of the usual instruction time. I'm curious if any other school districts doing this? It sees like a massive loss of education.
They are also doing the "half time remote" system, where everyone goes to school on alternate days and tunes in on Zoom on alternate days, and allowing anyone who requests to have full remote learning (as we did).
29: Arizona is the thought leader on this. Unless you hit it with a high-powered rifle, your kid's a pussy no matter what color the cloud is.
Oakland is generally warmer than SF, right? You don't have a window AC unit?
Only like 5-10 degrees warmer usually, still cool enough for no AC. You have to cross the hills into the east to get to traditional Westernly scorching temperatures. Usually.
Of arms and the man I sing. Or do I?
30: We're all remote for the first month, and 6-12th grades are meeting for 50 minutes/period every other day, so instruction time has been cut in half. This is because the state has definitions for "asynchronous" and "synchronous", and you can't meet for more than 3 hours a day and still be "asynchronous". But we want to be asynchronous, because it's got much more flexible definitions for attendance, and if your students don't attend, you lose funding per student.
I am a martyr to allergies this week. Sucks to feel this crummy on a holiday weekend. The weather here has cooled off considerably in the last week or two. My sister had surgery last week, and got skin grafts to repair the area in question. Sounds like everything went optimally. Still not sure what the deal is with a liver transplant.
Other than that, not much going on. We're certainly not going back into the office until well into the new year. And it has been intimated that people who want to continue working from home will likely be able to do so.
32: Berkeley seemed so much warmer than San Francisco in the summer, not frigid. I remember the Central Valley heat. That was awful.
The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in the Central Valley.
That could have been your experience when you visited, but over the past three years, Berkeley and SF's high temperatures have been within 5 degrees of each other on 57% of days. The average difference peaks at 8 degrees July but drops to 1 degree in Dec-Jan.
I barely ever publish, but we just submitted an article that was originally born out of a sabbatical I took back in 2014. JFC. (It morphed into something with other mathematicians that was much deeper and better than anything I could produce, and I feel very fraudulent with my name attached. My contribution ended up being that I was basically a very close reader of their work. Everything else I worked on ended up having un-patchable holes. The whole thing is depressing but it's finally off my plate, thank god.)
Holy moly, first day of remote school. I don't think anyone has cried more than twice so far. So many technological issues - sites crashing district wide, but then teachers also doing things like giving you their zoom link as an image which you can't click on, and also can't copy and paste, and have to manually copy.
It's almost as if the district's decision not to do any planning during June or July had an implication for how well-prepared everyone is.
We're alive and had a reasonable weekend -- boring, but okay.
At the last minute I thought about attending one of the online conventions for roleplaying and boardgaming (there are several in person over Labor Day weekend in normal years, and many made the leap online) -- on the theory that if I'm going to complain about every week feeling the same, maybe I should try doing something different... but decided against at the end. (At the last minute, choice of games is often down to the dregs.) I wound up playing some video games, and roleplaying with my normal group online on Sunday, which was nice to do again.
After the big fires in the coastal range over a hundred miles away died down, the air was breathable again... so this weekend a big fire maybe 50 miles away started on the slope of the sierras and spread quickly. Some people we know had to be evacuated by helicopter when the fire interrupted their hike and cut off the road down the mountain. Yesterday a small town in the path of the fire [Auberry] was ordered to completely evacuate. So...we'll soon be back to guessing "smoke or Covid?" for all our coughs and difficulty breathing.
The fire report is even worse than I'd thought. Day 3 and 0% contained.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/9/4/creek-fire/#incident-overview
Fortunately, damage is under 100 buildings so far.
The poor baby is going to have issues.
OMG. That really is the baby reveal fire? (I'm so sorry, Moosie.)
I googled it. I suppose the baby wasn't born yet, otherwise they could just look at diaper.
I bet the parents split up. Probably one of them was like "we can have cake with a blue filing."
We had a glorious totally smoke free day today. I'm sure it won't last.
(It snowed down to 6500 or so yesterday, so that helped a lot.)
I suppose that if you picked the altitude of detonation correctly you could determine whether a high-altitude airburst in the hundred-kiloton range would produce a mostly pink glow from excited oxygen in the mesosphere or a blue glow from excited hydrogen and helium more towards the thermosphere.
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NMM to Diana Rigg.
My first childhood crush.
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I just had to fight off the urge to change my twitter bio to "If you only read one book this year ... just fuck off and die". I think I will go for a walk instead.