Musings

Yeah, this is a Hulu promo image. Yeah, we’re happily watching OMITB (again). Cute pig. Look for Paul Rudd with a super-heavy Irish-accent (and tweed flat cap).

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This memory picture, from October 2021, is in honor of the fact that technically autumn arrived this morning. You couldn’t tell it by the weather here, however, with a high of—was it?—89°F…and a low expected overnight of 71°F. Pure summery weather, that.

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I titled this showoff grass, and that’s about the extent of my “creativity” at the moment. G’night.

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I’m really noticing the daylength getting shorter.

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Most recent binge-watch: “La Grande Maison Tokyo” (fiction). Tonight’s binge selection: “Lost Treasures of Rome” (science/NatGeo).

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I just read (okay: skimmed) a WaPo article by Andrew Zaleski that describes a new operation for people with knee cartilage problems. Surgeons put a pellet of calcium carbonate derived from coral exoskeletons (yeah, the reef kind) in the bone. Over time, the pellet is absorbed and the body makes a gooey substance that acts rather like real cartilage. It’s a fast operation, albeit with a different recovery curve than knee replacement. Zaleski describes two other new approaches with good results.

I’ll try to remember this. Right now my knees are okay (knock on wood), but they have had issues, and I baby them frequently.

Date: 17 Sept 2024. Title (that I saw online): Not ready for a knee replacement? You might be able to fix your cartilage instead.

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We tried to see the eclipse…the partial eclipse of the moon…nope: too much cloud cover. It does seem a bit brighter where the moon is supposed to be, though?

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Here’s the color the sun left before the moon rose.

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I prepared for rain, wind, and outer bands. We got some wind, not much rain, and lots and lots of overcast. I enjoyed the cool most of all. [Elsewhere, of course, they got dumped on.]

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Gravity is a dependable engineering principle. Oh, wait. Apparently it’s not a force, but a curvature of spacetime. Yikes.

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