Musings

We received a postcard today from a well-meaning sender: please vote in the Senatorial election, and please vote for Warnock and Ossoff. That is: the election of the 5th of Jan.

Yeah, the Republicans messed up the PO…and we got a Republican Party “Please Vote” mailing on Saturday (that is, on the 9th, well after the election). So the Republican Party did not believe that the Republican disruption of the PO would delay their mailings.

I cannot parse all this.

Also: do not stay on the bench.

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Here’s another specimen that blooms earlier than its brethren—a rhododendron! The Interweb reports that (somewhere?) it symbolizes danger. However, I’d say this one’s in danger—of frost and cold weather!

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Well, now; my yesterday oops meant we spent our money from the Pres, that really came from you and me and you and you and you over there, too. And some savings.

Woo-hoo.

And this consumer jaunt meant We Went To The Mall. We had a mission: to pick up a new laptop. We parked, we went in headed to the Apple Store…which was no longer across from Macy’s…wha?

Oh, “down the hall.” Cast our penetrating gazes about…there THERE it is!

But, nice lady says, no, you want downstairs…wha? Apple Store is now on two levels (mall has three). So much for our in-and-out without distraction strategy.

DOWNstairs. Yup. Nice man made the transaction happen…while I peeked around the corner at the new-device check-out area, presently closed to consumers because…Covid.

The six lovely trees poke up into the second story space reserved for tech assistance. Yay, nature.

In mall behavior footnote: every—EVERY—one I saw was wearing a mask. HOWEVER. Most people were wandering lackadaisically about…having totally missed the message AFTER Wear A Mask…the one that went: and Stay At Home and Away From Other People.

No wonder Covid rates are phenomenally high.

In other news, today I found an Iron Age twirly-horned cow sculpture behind a fence. That’s what I’m calling it.

Although: perhaps a lady-aurochs not a cow.

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I oopsed and the laptop is hobbled, so I’m using alternate technology to compose/create this post. This should be a minor issue, yet I’m so accustomed to my laptop routine that this constitutes a gigantic (personal) paradigm shift. Whining aside, is all reality paired with an almost-real version (like a reflection)?

Posted at 10:37 PM | Comments Off on Look here/there

Apple is after me to join their Fitness+, which I get free* for three months. I got a demo the other day, yet remain unconvinced that I can tolerate recorded coaching, exercising with a group and indoors in front of a screen, and the rah-rah approach.

Just sign up and try a new experience anyway? Ignore distressing memories of 8th-grade gym class?

* That it’s a fund-raising proposition may be what bothers me the most….

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Simple or complex?

The specter of 2020 reigned today.

First in Senate news, Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of his race; (deep breath) later, Jon Ossoff was declared the winner of that race. Yay! Two new Dem senators! And the Dems will control two branches of our national government after Joe Biden is sworn in.

Then, while I was distracted, whew, lawlessness struck the Capitol Building while a joint session of congress was underway, presided by the VP…provoked by the Prez, perhaps in part because he was excluded from all these events?

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I dragged on my walk today…hungry, I guess, because it was nice and sunny out. Trying to change my wicked ways in the new year…perhaps I mis-calculated.

Yes, we’re GA voters. Yes, we absentee voted, and our ballots were accepted between Xmas and year-end (yay!). Yes, there’s a big turnout. Yes, our voting place is frequently shown on national news footage—extra exciting.

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I took a different street today early in my trek, one I’ve been down before, but not lately. I had forgotten about this bed with extremely early croci until the color awakened my eyeballs, pfffft! Wow!

Later, it occurred to me for the first time that picking the saffron crocus is truly backbreaking work, as these flowers are darned close to the ground!

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Had a lot of fun with this pair and a laser pointer (including body slams against the wall while stretching upward as much as possible), until they decided it was feeding time and became no longer interested.

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Easy to anthropomorphize a fire truck—the blunt front suggests…contained energy, the large size is a metaphor for “gentle giant,” and the red/white, with bright yellow accents suggests a bit of a dandy…and the black-walls…hmm…Doc Martens?

Oh this is fun!

Your turn.

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