@Mik Every evening the host would describe the local wines that would be served with dinner, always 2 red, 2 white. It was fun having options. What’s your favorite of the Rhône wines? Syrah is the usual grape at the earlier part of our trip. I loved the Chateau Neuf du Pape Grenache we tasted in Avignon.

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Yeah we're only a couple blocks off Esplanade on St Roch - 830 St Roch. Marigny, like so much of central New Orleans since Katrina, is getting pretty gentrified, but the deep, deep culture, shared and separate, in this town are just wonderful.

@chas I'm really sorry you're suffering. I'm glad you quit your PCP though. That couldn't have been the wrong decision.

@axtremus @realplayer Makes sense. Thanks.

I wouldn’t lose sleep if she lost after what they did with the fake Dan Sullivan. That’s easy to say with a 55 vote majority already. If she does win, which I think is very likely, I hope she pulls more votes than both Dan Sullivans combined so at least not to have a cloud of illegitimacy hanging over her term. I think she recently pulled ahead of the combined votes for the Dans Sullivan. May she stay there.

New Orleans is suing the tanker company. Story here. With video taken by someone from inside the river boat as the tanker was just about to hit it. Auto-start video: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/orleans/port-new-orleans-sues-tanker-owners-cruise-ship-crash/289-925ba6e2-c484-431a-a5b8-bdda6a98f4d9

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@jon-nyc said: @Daniel said: It's no indictment of Islam, unless you would you'd like to throw all organized religions into the same category. Deal. (As I said before, whattaboutism rarely works with me, since the presumption that I hold the counter example sacred in any way is almost always false) Ditto

My education never involved logic.

I’d wear that! Sapphire is my birthstone.

@Bernard said: I remember when I learned how to spin wool. I was started on a drop spindle and would take my breaks in the conference room to practice. My yarn kept breaking and the spindle would fall to floor. This is why it’s called a DROP spindle, right? I have 3 of them, one Turkish (Jenkins), one top whorl (Kundert?), and one tiny Turkish spindle (also Jenkins) that I’ve never used. I had one more, but I gave it to a friend who wanted to learn to spin. I know you use a wheel, so cool. I don’t want a wheel because it would take away from knitting/design time. But I spun once on a Pocket Wheel, and I loved it.

As well you should be.

There's almost certainly even more unreleased material. Incidentally, apparently she was a great businesswoman. She said she had observed men all her life and learned business, and she never let herself be taken advantage of, and never compromised. She said Elvis wanted to sing I Will Always Love you but she refused him cold because she wouldn't give up the publishing rights. She said her songs were like her children, and in fact she protect them and herself. I didn't realize I was such a big fan time back. I was just a fan. But I came to be big fan. Loved her personality, her music, her beauty, her humanity, and rare for me there wasn't anything I didn't like about her. RIP

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Ah well, it was nice while it lasted....

Good article. I knew things were progressing quickly but maybe not this quickly.