Woke up to heavy snow falling and minus 1 temperatures, so it'll be helibores only till spring. Winter came early! [image: 1763537102991-20251119_065215.jpg] [image: 1763537103083-20251119_072039.jpg]

@ShiroKuro I am so sorry to hear this! There’s really no way to not use your legs/feet, so it’s hugely impactful when one or both of your feet are not in good shape. I hope the swelling goes down quickly, and that you can figure out a way to get around reasonably.

@Daniel Not just in the US. Canada has a similar housing crisis. I bought our house in 2011 for $150,000. The (conservative) estimated value today is $450,000. Nothing about our neighbourhood has changed. No new services or anything that would have increased the property value. My kid and his girlfriend pay $2400 a month to rent a small two bedroom apartment in a nearby small city/large town. That’s almost twice my mortgage payment, yet even if they could save up enough for a down payment (while also paying that ridiculous amount in rent), they would never be approved for a mortgage because paying rent does nothing for your credit score.

Mary Bruce from ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/trump-saudi-crown-prince-murder-jamal-khashoggi-127650855

@ShiroKuro said in This month's piano recording: @wtg nice, I'll have to try that! @Mark maybe even if it's temporary, this fix will let you use your Zoom? I'm off to find the Alcohol!

A panel of federal judges blocked Texas from using its new congressional map, which Republicans drew earlier this year in an effort to shore up the party's narrow House majority in next year's midterm elections. The ruling, signed by Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, ordered Texas to use its previous map that was drawn in 2021 instead. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map,” Brown wrote in the ruling. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/federal-court-blocks-texas-redrawn-congressional-map-rcna244673

@Daniel

Great! Thanks so much!

Congratulations!

Oi, the world doesn't make sense any more. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rand Paul aren't spouting nonsense 100% of the time ... https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5vws7zun72j

@Daniel said in James Comey: ... if you have nothing nice to say then say nothing at all. We can argue that speaking up against injustice is "nice" for the victims. Keep these in the back pocket: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do [say] nothing." — Edmund Burke "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people." — Martin Luther King Jr. "We will have to repent in this generation, not only for the evil words and deeds of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." — Martin Luther King Jr. "Silence in the face of injustice is the voice of complicity." — Noam Chomsky

More on the pasta tariff. https://www.arlnow.com/2025/11/17/italian-store-aims-to-hold-pasta-prices-steady-amid-107-tariff-threat/

We watched the first hour of last night's episode this morning while we were having breakfast. Good stuff.

Good links, wtg. I copied them to my email.

Knew a florist who said she sold more roses on the full moon to men with apologies to make.

@ShiroKuro said in Virtual staging: The line between presenting possibilities ("look how nice it would be if you did this!") and deception is tricky, but this one is too close to deception IMO. Yes indeed. But I understand the appeal of virtual staging in a nice home whose furniture has been removed. Staging a home with real furniture adds thousands to the cost of selling your home while putting virtual furniture in place costs a few hundred.

Wow! Talk about taking "pay it forward" to heart!!