After working at Caterpillar for about a year, I was settling into the job. The Cutlass was still running, but the job was starting to require a lot of travel. Joliet and Detroit were coming up, those were within driving distance, so I wanted to get a good highway car.
Biden’s first speech since leaving office
Biden just gave a speech about Social Security where he talked about first encountering “colored kids”.
It’s endearing when elder-folk say things people aren’t supposed to say. They can be refreshingly candid because they are channeling their younger self or they don’t give a shit anymore.
RFK Jr.’s plan for pharma ads would run straight into the First Amendment
RFK Jr wants to ban pharmaceutical ads on television, but MSNBC isn’t sure that he can.
Of course he can, but it may not matter.
My little sun-dog cares nothing about the affairs of men. Daylight Savings Time has no meaning to him because he sleeps where and when he wants. He adores dozing in bright sunlight.
Sparky and I aren’t pleased with the weather situation. Everything that looks like snow, is slick ice. Anything that looks greenish, is grass sticking out of slick ice. It’s worse than walking on a glacier.
This barred owl was outside my window this morning. This was before 8 am and the bird is backlit by the sky, so it’s a dodgy photo.
The branch the owl is resting on has a diameter of about 3 inches, so the owl is about 20 inches long. I didn’t see it fly off, but the wingspan is supposed to be about 40 inches. It’s crazy that a bird that big can fly in amongst all of the branches.
When I woke up this morning, the outside temperature was 1.4o F and we’ve got drifting snow. It hasn’t been this cold, with this much snow, for so long, since Sparky moved in. He won’t complain, but Sparky isn’t going to like going outside for his morning constitutional.
I am tempted to compel Sparky to plow through a snow drift.
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