Link to video Disgraceful.

Link to video This is beyond the pale. It's easy to say but it's true.

I might take jon's recommendation as well, and thank you so much wtg and Andy.

We can't have people not be divided or the people might start thinking about things that matter.

This reminds me of a line from a Mississippi Delta Blues song (a lot of the lines recur in different songs as well as, clearly, other musicological elements). My personal favorite rendition of this line is by Skip James from his Today! album. "You can't find no heaven I know; I don't care where you go." His bending of the note at-- "...know..." is nothing short of original and exquisite. Link to video :40- :56 In the context of weather, Mother Nature is everywhere, and relentless. Our hurricane season starts June 1, and there's already been tornadoes in the state. I'm trying to be philosophical about it. There's nothing you can do about it. You certainly can't ever escape it, even in the most beautiful places.

Either that or Alexa speaks cat. Reason enough to never have a device that spends my money because it thinks I want something.

Put them together, of course, and that's hysterical! I used to say, "No," bluntly, often (hard to image me being blunt, I know ; ).

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Wtg Waxwings are winter visitors but I still have to see them. Your gnomes look right at home

@andyd I'll take a good decade over a good one and a bad one. My medical power of attorney is complicated AF. I'm going to make sure it's know that I want DNR and no life support. I've had an interesting life. I have no plans to spend years suffering if there's no real point. As far loss, lifelong friends, since I was 3, since I was in high school, since I was in college, have become estranged over the decades. There's one I'd like to find but haven't had any luck in years. I have no family except a brother who is a narcissist from hell and has decided for the second time that we will be estranged since there's nothing I have that he can get from me. I have a cousin who doesn't understand me. I'll put that diplomatically. I have an aunt in her '80's whom I think the world of, and she's invited me to Seattle, but in will be a year or more before I'll be moved, settled, healed, and in a new rhythm managing my new responsibilities. The grim reaper cut down almost my entire family without giving me much of a break. Such is life. Well, we all know what our greatest poet said-- 'Better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.' Strangely, I want to be on my own. It's a new adventure.

Yes it is. We get it here occasionally.

Well, it looks like 90° F every day. We had some rain yesterday, we're supposed to have some today, and again tomorrow. This is good news because the State's draught is exceptionally bad.

I saw that @big_al! I'm not a fan of blue green and it's too bad because unheated blue green sapphires are a bargain. I trust this is a rare color for diamonds, but what a vault I could put together of jewels, gemstones, and watches if I had $17 million! Thanks for thinking of me.

Yes.

@AdagioM said: @jon-nyc Have you read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón? Novel set in Barcelona, 1945. Murder, madness, doomed love… My friend said it was a must-read. I enjoyed it, but maybe not as much as she did. I have not, but thanks for the recommendation. I’ll look into it.

The USPS is an independent entity of the executive, not a part of the "Department of Justice" and its magic ability to interpret the Constitution (or ignore it completely). But these are the times we're living in. It will be great PR for the USPS when someone opens their package and accidently blows their brains out. I want to defend the USPS but it's getting increasingly more difficult to do when they won't defend themselves.