Daily Entries for the week of
Sunday, May 10
through
Saturday, May 16 2020
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It’s Saturday, May 16
Welcome to the 769th consecutive post to the blog,
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Thoreau's Cove, Concord, Massachusetts.
Detroit Publishing Co. copyright claimant, publisher.
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2.0 Commentary
My torn meniscus seems to be healing rapidly.
With the aids of a knee brace and Grace’s arm, I walked Walden Pond on Thursday.
Never once feeling the painful twinge one gets when taking a wrong step,
or slightly twisting a foot into the tear.
Walked around the pond,
the trail being 1.5 miles long,
without taking any of the diversions.
We took none.
I woke up on Friday feeling even better.
I put on my socks and shoes without the help of a shoe horn.
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4.0 Chuckles and Thoughts
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but
imagination.
~Albert Einstein
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This from Joanna E:
You’re wise and thoughtful, my friend.
What do you have planned for today?
Are you watching anything good?
It turns out the Ken Burns Civil War documentary is not on Amazon Prime, but
you can stream it through the Boston Public Library system.
Love you.
Joanna
Blog Meister responds: Wow! Had no idea the BPL was an option. You must give me the clicks. I’m paying 6.99 per episode.
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6.0 Dinner/Food/Recipes
Thursday night I braised a pig’s foot for two hours in wine and olive oil and then
cooked it for another hour with leftover steak and hot sausage in a Italo Gravy.
Had it with 3oz spaghetti.
So delicious.
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Walden Pond is a lake in Concord, Massachusetts, in the United States.
A short way north of the pond the site of Thoreau's cabin is marked by a series of granite posts.
Portions of the pond's shore are beach, while other parts descend steeply to the water from trails that ring the pond.
There are three buildings at the main beach area at the southeastern shore of the pond.
The reservation's parking area is located across Route 126, and a ramped footpath descends from that roadway to the pond.
A famous example of a kettle hole, it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago.
The Walden Pond Reservation is located south of Massachusetts Route 2 and (mostly) west of Massachusetts Route 126 in Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts.
The pond is protected as part of Walden Pond State Reservation, a 335-acre state park and recreation site managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The reservation was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association with the writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), whose two years living in a cabin on its shore provided the foundation for his famous 1854 work, Walden; or, Life in the Woods.
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 ensured federal support for the preservation of the pond.
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It’s Friday, May 15
Welcome to the 768th consecutive post to the blog,
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Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Gazyumov vs Andriitsev
Ilgar Jafarov
Phoyographer
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2.0 Commentary
Tore it on Sunday.
By Thursday morning it appears to be on the mend –
the torn meniscus.
Based on the increasing possibility of putting on my socks and pants without seeing stars pain.
We’ll see.
Saw a recipe for a Bloody Mary by Gabrielle Hamilton, of Prune in NYC.
Identical to the way I make it.
Loved her detail, down to the brands of tomato juice (Sacramento) and Worcestershire Sauce (Lea and Perrins).
Will definitely be searching out her cookbooks.
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic,
on Wednesday the subway was half-full
which meant that
we patrons were pretty close to each other.
I fixed my mask to its maximum effectiveness but
still felt mighty uncomfortable.
What’s going to happen when restrictions are eased?
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4.0 Chuckles and Thoughts
Don't listen to the person who has the answers;
listen to the person who has the questions.
~Albert Einstein
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This from my friend Will, a summary:
Will cautions me against disobeying doctor’s orders.
Against walking when not needed and
against avoiding the use of crutches (always).
Blog Meister responds: I will take it under advisement. Note that Will tore his in dramatic, athletic fashion: a wrestling match.
My tear a gentle event, simply rising from a seat on the T – the meniscus weakened from excessive stretching exercises.
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6.0 Dinner/Food/Recipes
Wednesday night ate takeout from Shy Bird in Cambridge.
Everything was very good.
$65.00 complete with surcharge and tips and delivery.
Good value since it included an entire chicken.
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Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.
The sport can either be theatrical for entertainment (see professional wrestling), or genuinely competitive.
A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two (occasionally more) competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position.
There are a wide range of styles with varying rules with both traditional historic and modern styles.
Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into other martial arts as well as military hand-to-hand combat systems.
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It’s Thursday, May 14
Welcome to the 767th consecutive post to the blog,
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Little Richard in 2007
Anna Bleker - Own work (Original text: self-made)
Little Richard performing at the University of Texas Forty Acres Festival in 2007.
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2.0 Commentary
Tuesday, the day after medical examination of my knee.
Armed only with my knee brace,
the crutches cumbersome and demanding,
destructive of my love of walking,
I headed out for my routine long walk,
knowing I would be obliged to shorten the walking part.
I met Yan at the Pru,
she waiting although I was more than an hour later than normal, and then
I walked out towards Thinking Cup.
I was tired when I was only halfway there.
I suffered through the fatigue and got my coffee.
Once outside, I knew I’d head for the T and home,
no walk to the public garden, no Charles St, Cambridge St, State St.
Just home.
Made it.
Tired.
Lay down for fifteen minutes.
Got up,
enjoyed a chocolate cake (1/3 of a slice) and
a spoonful of Halo ice cream,
(low in calories since they beat so much air in it) and
published my blog.
Ordered a walking cane: Sunday delivery.
I’ll try it.
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4.0 Chuckles and Thoughts
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
~Albert Einstein
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This from Ann H, re: my torn meniscus
Oh thank goodness.
Crutches are no fun but better than the surgery.
Sending healing thoughts.
Ann Heimlicher
Boston Spot-Lite, Inc.
visit our website at www.bostonspotlite.com
Blog Meister responds: Thank you my dear.
And this from Joanna E:
Thank you, Dom. We had emotionally draining but beautiful Mother’s Day.
What is this I hear about a torn meniscus?
Are you still in pain?
Please listen to doctor’s orders and don’t walk for 2-4 weeks.
If you need someone to pick up medication, help you cook, keep you company, please let me know; you’re a fifteen minute bike ride away!
I thoroughly enjoyed your picture and post about Yan.
I hope one day, we’ll be able to share with her how many folks she’s touched with her story.
I love you.
Your Friend,
Joanna
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6.0 Dinner/Food/Recipes
On Tuesday, had a pizza delivery from the Regina, North End.
Delicious but expensive.
Also bought a chicken and vegan pot pie for Wednesday from
Shy Bird.
Will report.
Note they added a 20% surcharge to help their staff during the corona.
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Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), better known as Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
An influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades, he was nicknamed "The Innovator", "The Originator", and "The Architect of Rock and Roll".
Little Richard’s most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his charismatic showmanship and dynamic music, characterized by frenetic piano playing, pounding backbeat and raspy shouted vocals, laid the foundation for rock and roll.
His innovative emotive vocalizations and uptempo rhythmic music also played a key role in the formation of other popular music genres, including soul and funk.
He influenced numerous singers and musicians across musical genres from rock to hip hop; his music helped shape rhythm and blues for generations to come.
"Tutti Frutti" (1955), one of Little Richard's signature songs, became an instant hit, crossing over to the pop charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
His next hit single, "Long Tall Sally" (1956), hit No. 1 on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues Best-Sellers chart, followed by a rapid succession of 15 more hit singles in less than three years.
His performances during this period resulted in integration between White Americans and African Americans in his audience.
His contemporaries, including Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran, all recorded covers of his works. Taken by his music and style, and personally covering four of Little Richard's songs on his own two breakthrough albums in 1956, Presley told Little Richard in 1969 that his music was an inspiration to him and that he was "the greatest".
Little Richard was honored by many institutions.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986.
He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
In 2015, Little Richard received a Rhapsody & Rhythm Award from the National Museum of African American Music for his key role in the formation of popular music genres and helping to bring an end to the racial divide on the music charts and in concert in the mid-1950s, changing American culture significantly.
"Tutti Frutti" was included in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2010, which stated that his "unique vocalizing over the irresistible beat announced a new era in music".
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It’s Wednesday, May 13
Welcome to the 766th consecutive post to the blog,
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Left knee-joint from behind, showing interior ligaments.
Henry Vandyke Carter and one more author - Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body (See "Book" section below) Bartleby.com: Gray's Anatomy, Plate 348
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2.0 Commentary
Dodged the bullet.
Might have needed surgery.
Appears I don’t.
Despite the warnings of the Royal Canadian Air Force exercises staff against
trying to short-cut their chart and timetable,
I pushed forward faster than their recommendations.
Felt a twinge.
Experienced a muscle cramping.
Decided I could work through it.
Until Sunday morning when I rose from my seat on the T.
Twisted my knee just right to tear my meniscus.
I’m not a complainer.
My PCP tells me to assign higher values when I describe pain to him.
Not in this case.
I saw stars and black holes, to boot.
Excruciating, the pain.
All day, despite my best efforts to protect it,
all day I had these moments of star-seeing.
Finally Monday came and I made and kept my appointment with a doc.
It was her conclusion: torn meniscus.
But, no swelling of knee.
No pain when area probed (except, of course when the twisting of the knee occurred.)
No surgery.
An assistant arrived with a knee brace.
Instant relief.
Wonderful support.
What a joyous solution.
Comes with crutches, however.
Something to carry.
Don’t like that.
Use them to take weight of knee, I’m told.
Okay.
I’m still listening.
BTW: keep off leg.
No walking.
Here I check out.
Walking keeps my alive and well.
Happy.
Provides time alone to think.
Enjoyment.
Sometimes with company.
Socially distanced of course.
Enjoy those moments as well.
Will no agree to ‘not walk.’
So it’s Tuesday morning and
begins my period of learning and adjusting.
First: buy a long-handled shoe horn.
I do: coming Sunday.
Two to four weeks healing.
I can do that.
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4.0 Chuckles and Thoughts
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but
a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
~Benjamin Franklin
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This from Sally C:
Dear Dom,
Howard's bread looks mighty nice!
If it tastes as good as he says, then that's what really matters.
More experiment and experience will improve it to suit his taste, in texture and shape.
This batch looks fine for sandwiches; it doesn't look at all crumbly.
It took me quite a few years to attain the density and "crumb I prefer in my oatmeal bread; the primary "problem" was that I was not kneading the dough thoroughly.
Now I give it aggressive kneading for at least twenty minutes; kneading develops and stretches the gluten (which is what holds the bread together, gives it its texture).
(I make oatmeal bread in the winter, as Christmas gifts and as collateral to pay those who help me shovel snow.
It is quite an ice-breaker. You, Dom, know how good it is!)
I haven't ever made sourdough bread, so I don't know if extended kneading is required for it.
I would like to learn to make it, though. One of these days ... mmmmm!
Sally
Blog Meister responds: Oh. Yes! It’s a classic. I relished every bite!
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6.0 Dinner/Food/Recipes
Monday afternoon I bought a lobster and stewed it in some Marinara Sauce I had hanging around.
Delicious, with a plate of spaghetti and the sauce.
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A meniscus is a crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous anatomical structure that, in contrast to an articular disc, only partly divides a joint cavity.
In humans they are present in the knee, wrist, acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, and temporomandibular joints; in other animals they may be present in other joints.
Generally, the term "meniscus" is used to refer to the cartilage of the knee, either to the lateral or medial meniscus.
Both are cartilaginous tissues that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion.
The menisci are also known as "semi-lunar" cartilages, referring to their half-moon, crescent shape.
The term "meniscus" is from the Ancient Greek word μηνίσκος (meniskos), meaning "crescent.”
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It’s Tuesday, May 12
Welcome to the 765th consecutive post to the blog,
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Howard’s first bread-making in decades
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2.0 Commentary
Stretching?
Royal Canadian Air Force exercises?
Do be careful.
At least more careful than was I.
At the moment, I am waiting for 8.30am on Monday morning when
I will be able to call for an appointment to examine my knee
to determine if I will need surgery.
You want to avoid that.
How?
By not ignoring signs of pain.
Feel a bit of a strain, stop it.
Take a day off from exercising.
After the day, recommence only
if that little bit of pain has gone away.
Do not ‘work through it’ as I did.
The result may lead to a continuous weakening of ligaments and muscles and
then to a sudden tear and
excruciating pain.
And walking reduced to a painful slow-motion limp.
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4.0 Chuckles and Thoughts
Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty.
Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control.
It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd.
So fart, and if you must, fart often.
But always fart without apology.
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.
~Benjamin Franklin
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This from Sally C:
It is a lovely picture of Yan. I want to meet her! (I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up with a fan club!)
Please thank her for allowing it and thank you for sharing it.
Sally
Blog Meister responds: I will. Our conversations are getting longer. (Note that the picture of Yan Sally refers to is found below in this post.)
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6.0 Dinner/Food/Recipes
I had leftover spareribs for dinner with broccoli rabe and baked beans.
Tasty, not spectacular.
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Adventures in Bread Making
With the long distance assistance of my bread-making friend turned temporary sensei (which included about 20g of his precious "goo" (sourdough starter), sent by mail) I've embarked on a bread making phase. This is after a hiatus of I'd guess about 40 years, the last time I tried baking my own, long before the days of the surge in sourdough seriousness (they've been serious about it in other cultures – pun neither intentional or un- – for centuries, at least, I mean in the commercial sphere). Back then, as a "youth" I used commercial yeast, and, as I recall, I mainly made loaves in rectangular pan. I also tried Julia Child's recipe for authentic baguettes; but that was a tremendous pain, and probably accounts for the long fallow period of my personal bread baking.
The results of the first attempt, last night, were, to my mind equivocal. I'm sure I made dozens of mistakes, some half-knowingly, almost willfully stupidly. What can I say? It doesn't seem worth getting seriously uptight about. But this too shall pass, and probably sooner than the existential threat that beleaguers us all (and wouldn't it be pretty to think it will take longer?).
It doesn't sit as high and pretty and boule-like as I'd like, at least part of the reason being the foolhardy/half-ignorant decision to use whole wheat flour, Red Fife, which I ordered and had delivered from a small mill in the south at some expense. The bag clearly said bread flour, but that was addressing certain fundamental characteristics of almost sacramental significance to serious breadmakers. God bless them.
Otherwise it was fairly painless, some aspects even fun. And the results, even if not entirely photogenic, frankly to this ancient palate, taste mighty good.
I can already understand how each batch, especially the first, is instructive, and maybe by the 24th batch, I'll be happy with the results such that they'd satisfy even someone far more finicky than I am trying not to allow myself to be.
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It’s Monday, May 11
Welcome to the 764th consecutive post to the blog,
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Yan, putting the face to the story
Printed with permission
Blog Meister
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2.0 Commentary
Let’s go!
I need a haircut.
Lots of us are saying that by now.
And yet a sorry lament when
compared to the billions of deprivations of every magnitude we’re suffering as a world,
a haircut.
Getting me to thinking that, despite best efforts,
are our leaders being simplistic about the solution to this pandemic.
How would we make a case that they are?
Let’s take a haircut.
Write a script.
The salon,
empty,
except for one or more effectively-masked stylists at their chairs
so distanced from each other as to satisfy the most rigorous of protocols.
Seated at the chairs,
patrons as effectively-masked as their stylists.
The masks provide protection when people are within the mandatory six-foot social distance.
Add gloves.
Add covers.
Whatever makes sense.
Add everything.
But,
open!
I’m aware that salons offer more than straight-forward cuts.
Let’s keep it simple.
Open on the 18th of May only for haircuts.
In a few days, tweak any issues.
Gradually permit additional procedures with individualized safety precautions.
But open.
For goshsakes open.
Stay healthy.
Dress in a space suit.
Do anything.
But open.
Open,
Open!
The criticism is that we may have butchers
doing the work of surgeons.
Easy enough to shout “Keep it shut. We must be safe.”
Fact is we’ve done a remarkably good job in keeping safe.
It’s now time to apply these newly-learned lessons to the workplace.
And don’t expect an overwhelming surge of buyers.
So many of us are broke.
Without jobs.
By nature of economics, recovery will be slow.
Slow recovery will provide ample opportunity to tweak as we go.
But let’s at least add to the list of open for businesses.
Let’s go.
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4.0 Chuckles and Thoughts
We are all born ignorant, but
one must work hard to remain stupid.
~Benjamin Franklin
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6.0 Dinner/Food/Recipes
Daughter Kat and I shared a NY Sirloin roast which I slow-roasted then
broiled/seared.
With broccoli rabe in garlic and oil and a bit of large rigatoni-type pasta with
Marinara Sauce.
The food was terrific – a metaphor for the visit, also terrific.
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Yan has been the single most discussed post since the blog began over two years ago.
On Saturday I asked her permission to photograph her and publish the result.
She happily agreed and, when shown, was delighted with the picture.
For those not aware, Yan wanders the halls of the Prudential Center.
When the Blue Bottle Café was open,
when customers could buy coffee and
sit at a communal table,
Yan, disheveled, would buy two small items,
leave a tip, and
take a seat.
Before long she would falls asleep.
While the regulars soon accepted Yan as part of the ritual,
random patrons often displayed signs of aversion.
Yan resisted and eventually wore down
early efforts to get her to move on.
She now had a safe and warm place to rest.
To nap.
When she was cut loose with the stay-at-home orders that led to the Blue Bottle closing,
she wandered the halls of Prudential, never able to stop and simply sit.
It appeared as though she slept while she walked.
I got in the habit of providing the wherewithal for a dinner for her.
We got friendly.
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It’s Sunday, May 10
Welcome to the 763rd consecutive post to the blog,
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Daurian redstart male
Daurian redstart male at Daisen Park in Osaka, midwinter
Photo by Laitche
Daurian redstart female
wikipedia
Daurian redstarts male and female banding
Wikipedia
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2.0 Commentary
I heard welcome news on today’s newscast.
Several of Boston’s major institutions of higher learning, closed since the onset of the pandemic, are planning to reopen for the fall semester.
I have every confidence that protocols will be set in place making attendance reasonably safe.
The news especially welcome coming on the heels of the city of Boston’s cancellation of its summer events, most notably our Fourth of July celebration.
All of us are deeply affected by the corona plague, usually in more ways than one.
Parents of children of college age bemoan their children’s loss of the college community experience.
We will be very pleased to see our kids return to school.
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4.0 Chuckles/Thoughts
Where liberty dwells there is my country.
~Benjamin Franklin
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This detailed piece from Howard D:
I offer for your consideration the following article, which I found very useful.
It gives, in part because of its thoroughness about a subject that cannot be given short shrift, the full perspective on what we are up against, in terms of the science, mainly biology and physics, regarding the
risks of the virus and its modes of transmission, and how to avoid or significantly lessen those risks.
The woman who wrote it is a biologist at UMass/Amherst.
http://erinbromage.wixsite.com/covid19/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
On the heels of that, I read with some interest the remarks of your friend Sally who was accosted while on a walk with her husband in the Main Street of her hometown.
Nothing to say, except, for what it’s worth, and again invoking the science of physics and biology, and the mechanics of both, with regard to the virus.
She’s to be commended for outfitting herself with a mask, which apparently she doesn’t wear outside, practicing social distancing instead. She reports using the mask if she enters a store, or similar establishment, in order to deploy its protection, and to conform to the law. It’s readily deduced that she then removes it, for use again, if there are further interior visits.
FWIW, this is the worst practice regarding masks, and essentially defeats the purpose of wearing it, unless it’s a mask designed for being donned and then removed according to the appropriate protocol. Most masks for civilians like us are meant for one time use: don them, keep them on for the duration, and remove them properly, either to be discarded (if they are one-time use) or to be cleaned and disinfected for re-use according to the same protocol.
Donning and removing a mask repeatedly, especially a one-time only type of mask, but also this pertains to the cloth masks that are seeing greater and greater distribution, only increases the risk, in fact almost assures it, that this will contaminate the wearer (and others, if the wearer is infected, unknowingly or otherwise) with repeated exposure to whatever pathogens are on surfaces of the mask, but especially the outside of it, spreading them on one’s skin, which is most dangerous on the skin of the face.
It’s the lookout of whoever is behaving as they see fit, but if it’s in the spirit of being careful, she isn’t. Not with the behavior she’s describing.
I honestly don’t care what you do with this information.
I know what I do with it.
Until there is a vaccine, and there is extensive, essentially unlimited testing and contact tracing, we will be at increasing levels of risk, especially we old folks, as time progresses, and especially with the foolhardy “programs” for “re-opening” which are gathering momentum.
The politics of this can be argued until one is blue in the face (even faster reaching that color if you happen to get infected). The science is irrefutable.
I read, and fully understand, and sympathize, with your longing and frustration for a return to the “old days.” I hear you buddy.
It’s too bad, but facts and science trump all sentiment.
It’s prudent, and necessary, I am very very sorry to say, to suffer. If these constraints are that onerous.
Take care of yourself. Stay safe.
xoxo
h
Blog Meister responds: Terrific detail. Thank you, Howard.
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6.0 Dinner/Food/Recipes
Friday night I enjoyed a plate of ribs and a hot Italian pork sausage.
Nothing to write home about.
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7. “Conflicted” podcast
Conflicted, by Dom Capossela, is a spiritual/fantasy/political story about a sixteen-year-old mystic-warrior conflicted internally by her self-imposed alienation from God, her spiritual wellspring, and, externally, by the forces of darkness seeking her death or ruination.
Here’s the link:
https://soundcloud.com/user-449713331/sets/conflicted-dom-capossela
The podcasts are also available on Sound Cloud, iTunes, Twitter, and Facebook.
Search: dom capossela or conflicted or both
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The Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus) is a small passerine bird from temperate Asia.
The adult male has a grey crown and nape, a black face and chin, brownish mantle and wings and a large white wing patch; the chest, lower back and rump are orange, and the tail is black with orange sides. The female is brown above and paler brown below, with an orange rump and tail sides, and a large white wing patch similar to the male's.
t performs short flights from a perch to catch preys such as spiders and caterpillars. It also may performs short aerial sallies. While foraging, it has an agile flight.
During the breeding season, the Daurian Redstart is territorial and the species is monogamous. The male establishes and defends the territory where it attracts females. It proclaims and maintains this area by singing.
The courtship displays are poorly known, but it probably performs flight displays and chases like other redstarts. Exaggerated postures to enhance the plumage pattern, white wing patches, rufous rump and underparts, grey crown and two-tone tail are performed too. Courtship feeding by male to female is reported too.
The species grows to a length of about 6 in, and breeds in Manchuria, southeastern Russia, northeastern Mongolia, central China and Korea.
A common migratory species, it is not considered to be a threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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12.0 Diary of the Surrender of a Private Car
Not having a car is not a burden during the pandemic.
There’s no place to go.
Meanwhile, the savings continue to add up.
Five months.
150 days.
$53.00 a day.
Living in an eminently walkable city, with the T nearby, and with delivery available for virtually every need, one needs spend very little on taxis or Uber/Lyft.