This Sunday A&J from 2009 seems appropriate. Things where I am are about to get worse: high temperatures in the mid 90s in coming days with (and this is the problem) high humidity and heat indices well into the triple digits. The ol’ bear will be on the prowl. Speaking of summer, in case you missed my post a few days ago, I’m trying to update regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays until late September. I figure if I can’t update often, I can at least update predictably. Discipline! That’s what’s needed around here, discipline!
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Lovely:
http://www.gocomics.com/shoe
Debbe, Happy Birthday!
Here we are on time for my breast surgeon. There are some things you don’t want to be on time for or even early.
Storms seem to have knocked out phones to the oncology clinic, they had none when I called to check in. The answering service couldn’t reach them!
http://www.newson6.com/story/36156642/special-shipment-of-hard-to-find-solar-eclipse-glasses-coming-to-tulsa-store
This vintage cartoon sums it up.
I try to be on time as my Dad was always late. With 7 kids, it was difficult for my Mom to be on time. Even before my sister had 6 girls, I always kidded her that she would be late for her own funeral. Here’s to hoping that it will be very late.
I have extra glasses I am giving away to friends and family. One person said I could make more money waiting until the last absolute minute and selling them at $25.00 a pair. Maybe, but why take out all of the fun of making someone happy instead?
ursen- you are a keeper. 🙂
Orcas
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We did some checking today on best place to see the eclipse where we are. Checked position of the sun at the right time. We live in the woods, but right in front of the house we have a break in the canopy that is perfect. So we are gonna set up our queen airbed and snuggle with each other while we watch in comfort. Inexpensive and fun for a once in a lifetime event.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/july-ranks-2nd-heat-globally-hottest-recorded-land-49276017?yptr=yahoo
Peace,
So it’s the hottest since records began being kept? Story says 1880 is the starting point. So 2017-1880 equals 137 years. The hottest July in 137 years of record-keeping, but what is that really on the global timeline?
Seems like a statistically small sample to extrapolate future events from.
Here in Camarillo, it’s expected to be about 62%, the biggest one I can remember since the ’60s. We have special glasses that I got from ThinkGeek, and I’ve tested them. Outdoors on a sunny day, they block everything except the Sun itself, and I, who am very sensitive to bright lights and glare, can look at it comfortably.
OK, found some of my answers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record
My issue with that nonsensical article regarding temperatures is that the planet’s temperature is being measured at how many points? Who certified those points as being representative? And that the area around them hadn’t been converted from a gravel parking lot to an asphalt one? And just who has been “normalizing” the data?
The only system I trust is the satellites which cover the entire planet and don’t lend themselves to data manipulation by researchers looking for grants. And guess what the satellite records don’t show?
http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
Mark: Good use of the web. People refer to all sorts of data re past climate, often w/o appropriate perspective. My fave sort of science is paleobiology, 350 MYA to present. All sorts of interesting climate trends and many gaps in our data, and fascinating transitional fossils.
But my personal, humanitarian, and patriotic concern is for my kids, grandkids, and such [no ‘and such’ exist yet], and for the same worldwide, all equally ‘children of God’, whether they live in Pittsburgh, Paris, or Pakistan. It is much shorter term, and that’s what climate change is about.
http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/coasts/living-in-coastal-areas/
Also think about the cultural loss. A few examples: the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Am. Mus. Natural History, Carnegie Hall, the Cabildo, Basin St., the French Quarter, the Hermitage, the Aegean Isles, Venice.
Peace [which becomes less likely in a stressed world],
On a lighter, and I hope not too racy, note, today’s Writer’s Almanac poem is insightful:
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20170817/
As I understand the cited work, “Mules of Love”, the “mules” wouldn’t need to care about birth control since all males are sterile. That, in itself, would lighten things up.
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/node/733
Ecc. 1:9
New International Version
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
And Jackie has posted about herself on FB. A mastectomy will be required, bilaterally to keep them matching on reconstruction. (They don’t make replacements in her size, she said.)Ghost gets to pick the new pair.
Still talking cloudy for Mon.
Neighbor – going to school in Fargo – said he might rent school plane with buddies
and fly above clouds.
Brooke McEldowney had a stroke that is why no new Pibgorn and reruns of 9CWL.
Glad to read that Jackie is a candidate for surgery, after all. Also saw the McEldowney notice and happy he is recovering.
Have to clear about six more testz to insure cancer hasnt spread to bones, organs, etc. Left breast is clear but another biopsy for the new mass, another MRI, a PET scan. Ghost has list!
We both keep this on our phone calendars. Worse than a dance card! Remember those?
elephants
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Heard of dance cards, but never encountered them. Elaine loved me despite my dancing ineptitude.
Well known, ‘well-endowed’, cantankerous, retired UMC clergywoman opted for reduction on the cancer-free side ages ago; a silver lining to the cloud. Still with us, I believe. Elaine and I had supper w/ her at another beloved clergy couple’s home in Golden Valley [TC] in Aug. ’09. Their M.Div daughter recently preached at BUMC.
Prayers / Jackie and Brooke [and thanks for that info / Pib.]
Peace,
Yes, reduction of the cancer free breast will be needed to get a matched pair. If I have genetically linked cancer total mastectomy on both sides will be needed. Waiting for results.
Ghost gets to pick what he wants.