Good morning! It was about ten degrees warmer this morning than yesterday but still quite cool.
I got up around 5:30 so we could go vote. We wanted to get there early in case of a line.
It opened at 7:00 a.m., and we were able to be in the first group entering. The handicapped and over age 75 get to go to the front of the line, the benefit of being decrepit, lol.
chilly here which is wonderful! The problem is the fire danger. The next two days are a north wind event with high danger
counting blessings! My new friend Clara came over and cleaned the downstairs bathroom and she really cleaned! I vacuumed under the bed wow that was a lot of dust
funny problem. I can’t find the flannel fitted sheet. Hmmm
reading Jeremiah 21 and 22 this morning about justice and righteousness and taking care of the afflicted and needy. What convicting passages concerning us and our nation
Nightingale has been under a lot of stress and pressure lately, with work, dealing with Boy (including having to take him to the doctor because of that concussion), some extra work for her difficult Microbiology class, AND getting ready for her trip. (She left this morning for a four-day trip to Florida to see a Taylor Swift concert with a friend who lives down there.)
Seeing that Dunkin is having some Halloween-themed goodies, and two of them are purple – her favorite color – she decided to treat herself. The donut has purple-icing over the top and a black-icing spider and the special macchiato is supposed to be purple on the bottom and black (coffee) on the top. (I forget what she called the purple stuff, but she said it is marshmallowy.)
Her friend Beth had had one of those coffees, and I guess she had shared a photo of it. Nightingale thought it looked pretty cool and wanted to try it, especially for the purple look. As for the donuts with the purple icing, she said they’re only those puffy kind that kids like because they are covered with the sweet icing, and we prefer the cake donuts, but she thought it looked cute.
So she gets her order. Instead of having the separate colors (which the one drinking would then stir together) the macchiato was already blended together, so she didn’t get to see the purple. They also didn’t put in enough of the correct flavoring. The donut icing was pink, not purple. She was so disappointed that she cried. (Due to feeling too much stress lately as well as the disappointment over her treats. She is normally not much of a crier over things like that.)
I felt so bad for her! I told her that I was sorry that I didn’t have any purple treats available for her.
This morning, I went on Amazon to look for was some kind of purple-wrapped candy to surprise Nightingale with, because of her disappointment over the non-purple stuff she ended up with at Dunkin yesterday.
Wasn’t sure it would work, but I put “purple Halloween candy” into the search bar, and some purple-wrapped candies, as well as others, showed up! The bag with all-purple-wrapped candies was Rolos – dark chocolate candies filled with caramel. That was for the win! Nightingale prefers dark chocolate, and she loves caramel. I was so glad that I found that!
More record-breaking cargo continues to come into our ports in LA – a monthly port virtual news briefing this morning included the CEO of one of the national retail associations who offered one explanation for what some of us have seen in the rise of elaborate Halloween (and other holiday) decorations –
I guess we all sort of knew this but he pointed out (again) that during the pandemic people had so little social interaction that they began to do deep dives in buying holiday decorations and Halloween was key as it kicks off the big holidays to come.
So now we’re stuck with it, love it or not. 🙂 Elaborate, BIG, HUGE, Halloween motifs spread out in front yards everywhere, complete with skeletons and goblins and ghosts, all with spooky sound effects.
I remember early on during the pandemic (early 2020, but who can forget that timeline, right?) a Christian trend making the rounds via social media not to put away that lighted Christmas star just yet — let’s hang them in our windows all year long, reminding us of God’s sovereignty over even all of the mess and the plagues that strike.
My latest book is Keeper of the Stars by Robin Lee Hatcher. The author is from Idaho so I am hearing a lot about the area around Boise. Wondering if Mumsee knows the author? This book is a Christian romance. It’s pleasant company while I wash dishes.
The wind is kicking up here this afternoon; it’s cool and sunny.
I can never say it’s cold again – thanks to mumsee!
(But temperatures are all relative, right? when it’s cold here, it is cold. I go somewhere else on a trip in winter and it’s colder but if I stay there long enough, well, that becomes a ‘cold’ norm as well.)
~ Facing a dangerous weekend of dry, gusty winds across California, firefighters in Oakland are battling a brush fire that has damaged several homes and threatening others.
The fire broke out in the Oakland Hills near Mountain Boulevard and Keller Avenue Friday afternoon, where much of the region was under a red flag warning due to critical fire weather.
Details on the damage were not immediately clear, but video from the scene showed several homes damaged. The fire was burning near the Oakland Zoo. Homes in the area were under evacuation order.
In Los Angeles County, where winds were also creating major wildfire concerns, a smaller blaze was burning in the hills off Colima Road in Hacienda Heights.
The fires comes as a stretch of potentially hazardous weather is spanning much of California through the weekend, with gusty winds, red flag conditions and the risk of additional power shutoffs — already in place for thousands — to avoid sparking more wildfires.
From Redding to Riverside, forecasters are warning of a strong offshore flow through at least Saturday, with gusts as high as 40 and 50 mph drying out huge swaths of California and triggering utility shutoffs in the most vulnerable areas. In Southern California, the conditions are creating the infamous Santa Ana winds — the first of the season — often the culprit for some of the region’s most dangerous late-season fires. …. ~
How the Internet Made Vibes More Important than Arguments
~ … Vibes are the currency of our time, given and received a million times a minute on screens everywhere. The vibe world is Memes over messages. Aesthetics over arguments. Relatability over rightness. Feelings over facts. Mood over meaning. Vibes are fluid, subjective, and immune to criticism or definition. You can’t articulate, replicate, or invalidate a vibe. …
… Initially framed as a net gain for humanity, the internet’s open-source, democratized nature has ended up leading not to enlightenment but rather to a “post-truth” world of informational chaos. The sheer glut of information, coming at us from all directions at all times, is mostly unvetted and contains no clear distinctions between expert and nonexpert, fact or opinion, and (increasingly) human or AI. We naturally grow suspicious of almost everything we see on screens. Information overload renders all information suspect.
The “everything, everywhere, all at once” structure of internet life also explains why we’ve grown accustomed to incoherence. We’re constantly confronted with disconnected fragments, contradictory ideas, dueling opinions, and the whiplash of narratives that drastically change in real time (e.g., 2019’s Jussie Smollett hoax or this year’s KateGate). …
… Byung-Chul Han is correct to point to this “deluge of information” as the cause of our “narrative crisis.” It’s no surprise that, detached from bigger pictures and swimming in a sea of fragments, we’re losing our ability to be bothered by or even notice inconsistencies. When incoherence is all our mind encounters, it doesn’t register as an aberration. …
Hope all will be well with you in those winds and dry conditions. We just had a bit of rain again. Always a relief.
We went to see Ordinary Joe this afternoon. I wasn’t sure whether I would like it, but I am glad I went to see it. The acting with excellent. The story was interesting and told in an unusual way. The characters were not ‘cleaned up’ as so often in movies with a Christian theme. The only downside was that the price was almost double from what I expected. That was by the order of the producers. The theater had no choice. Sadly, that may keep some from seeing it.
World gave it a mixed review and I do understand why. At one point the main character answers a man that he doesn’t want to convert him and doesn’t care if he believes in God, Buddha or a giant unicorn. How any Christian can have that attitude is beyond me. Like I said, though, the movie keeps it real it seems.
The story is based on the true story of the man who insisted on taking a knee after every football game at a public high school. The case went to the Supreme Court.
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Good morning! It was about ten degrees warmer this morning than yesterday but still quite cool.
I got up around 5:30 so we could go vote. We wanted to get there early in case of a line.
It opened at 7:00 a.m., and we were able to be in the first group entering. The handicapped and over age 75 get to go to the front of the line, the benefit of being decrepit, lol.
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I guess the new saying is, “Vote early, but don’t vote often.”
And it’s Friday already!
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Thanks, Peter! Need some laughs and cheer after being up so early. We voted early in more ways than one 🙂
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Worth a look at the comics to see the long noses, lol
There are so many things to poke fun at. Maybe should post it on the political thread, too.
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Good morning, all. A beautiful foggy morning here. Thirty four out there.
mumsee
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chilly here which is wonderful! The problem is the fire danger. The next two days are a north wind event with high danger
counting blessings! My new friend Clara came over and cleaned the downstairs bathroom and she really cleaned! I vacuumed under the bed wow that was a lot of dust
funny problem. I can’t find the flannel fitted sheet. Hmmm
jo
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reading Jeremiah 21 and 22 this morning about justice and righteousness and taking care of the afflicted and needy. What convicting passages concerning us and our nation
Jo
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Nightingale has been under a lot of stress and pressure lately, with work, dealing with Boy (including having to take him to the doctor because of that concussion), some extra work for her difficult Microbiology class, AND getting ready for her trip. (She left this morning for a four-day trip to Florida to see a Taylor Swift concert with a friend who lives down there.)
Seeing that Dunkin is having some Halloween-themed goodies, and two of them are purple – her favorite color – she decided to treat herself. The donut has purple-icing over the top and a black-icing spider and the special macchiato is supposed to be purple on the bottom and black (coffee) on the top. (I forget what she called the purple stuff, but she said it is marshmallowy.)
Her friend Beth had had one of those coffees, and I guess she had shared a photo of it. Nightingale thought it looked pretty cool and wanted to try it, especially for the purple look. As for the donuts with the purple icing, she said they’re only those puffy kind that kids like because they are covered with the sweet icing, and we prefer the cake donuts, but she thought it looked cute.
So she gets her order. Instead of having the separate colors (which the one drinking would then stir together) the macchiato was already blended together, so she didn’t get to see the purple. They also didn’t put in enough of the correct flavoring. The donut icing was pink, not purple. She was so disappointed that she cried. (Due to feeling too much stress lately as well as the disappointment over her treats. She is normally not much of a crier over things like that.)
I felt so bad for her! I told her that I was sorry that I didn’t have any purple treats available for her.
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Part 2 🙂
This morning, I went on Amazon to look for was some kind of purple-wrapped candy to surprise Nightingale with, because of her disappointment over the non-purple stuff she ended up with at Dunkin yesterday.
Wasn’t sure it would work, but I put “purple Halloween candy” into the search bar, and some purple-wrapped candies, as well as others, showed up! The bag with all-purple-wrapped candies was Rolos – dark chocolate candies filled with caramel. That was for the win! Nightingale prefers dark chocolate, and she loves caramel.
I was so glad that I found that!
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Amazon rocks. 🙂
More record-breaking cargo continues to come into our ports in LA – a monthly port virtual news briefing this morning included the CEO of one of the national retail associations who offered one explanation for what some of us have seen in the rise of elaborate Halloween (and other holiday) decorations –
I guess we all sort of knew this but he pointed out (again) that during the pandemic people had so little social interaction that they began to do deep dives in buying holiday decorations and Halloween was key as it kicks off the big holidays to come.
So now we’re stuck with it, love it or not. 🙂 Elaborate, BIG, HUGE, Halloween motifs spread out in front yards everywhere, complete with skeletons and goblins and ghosts, all with spooky sound effects.
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I remember early on during the pandemic (early 2020, but who can forget that timeline, right?) a Christian trend making the rounds via social media not to put away that lighted Christmas star just yet — let’s hang them in our windows all year long, reminding us of God’s sovereignty over even all of the mess and the plagues that strike.
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… And giving light and hope to some of our neighbors.
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My latest book is Keeper of the Stars by Robin Lee Hatcher. The author is from Idaho so I am hearing a lot about the area around Boise. Wondering if Mumsee knows the author? This book is a Christian romance. It’s pleasant company while I wash dishes.
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The wind is kicking up here this afternoon; it’s cool and sunny.
I can never say it’s cold again – thanks to mumsee!
(But temperatures are all relative, right? when it’s cold here, it is cold. I go somewhere else on a trip in winter and it’s colder but if I stay there long enough, well, that becomes a ‘cold’ norm as well.)
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Wind is kicking up here, too, and we’re in a red flag fire watch.
75 mph on some of the high hills–it was 125 mph the night of the terrible fires 7 years ago this month.
Me be worried?
Actually, no, but it would be nice to have some moisture in the air.
Send the fog, DJ.
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Janice, Boise is two hundred twenty five miles, four and a half hours, away so, no.
mumsee
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I think this may blow away our marine layer fog. 😦
Stay safe, power outages also being predicted.
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LA Times:
~ Facing a dangerous weekend of dry, gusty winds across California, firefighters in Oakland are battling a brush fire that has damaged several homes and threatening others.
The fire broke out in the Oakland Hills near Mountain Boulevard and Keller Avenue Friday afternoon, where much of the region was under a red flag warning due to critical fire weather.
Details on the damage were not immediately clear, but video from the scene showed several homes damaged. The fire was burning near the Oakland Zoo. Homes in the area were under evacuation order.
In Los Angeles County, where winds were also creating major wildfire concerns, a smaller blaze was burning in the hills off Colima Road in Hacienda Heights.
The fires comes as a stretch of potentially hazardous weather is spanning much of California through the weekend, with gusty winds, red flag conditions and the risk of additional power shutoffs — already in place for thousands — to avoid sparking more wildfires.
From Redding to Riverside, forecasters are warning of a strong offshore flow through at least Saturday, with gusts as high as 40 and 50 mph drying out huge swaths of California and triggering utility shutoffs in the most vulnerable areas. In Southern California, the conditions are creating the infamous Santa Ana winds — the first of the season — often the culprit for some of the region’s most dangerous late-season fires. …. ~
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we have high winds today here also.
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I had to go to town for an MRI on my day off. Finally got my taxes paid and we both voted. Now we wait and see how it all pans out.
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From Gospel Coaltion:
How the Internet Made Vibes More Important than Arguments
~ … Vibes are the currency of our time, given and received a million times a minute on screens everywhere. The vibe world is Memes over messages. Aesthetics over arguments. Relatability over rightness. Feelings over facts. Mood over meaning. Vibes are fluid, subjective, and immune to criticism or definition. You can’t articulate, replicate, or invalidate a vibe. …
… Initially framed as a net gain for humanity, the internet’s open-source, democratized nature has ended up leading not to enlightenment but rather to a “post-truth” world of informational chaos. The sheer glut of information, coming at us from all directions at all times, is mostly unvetted and contains no clear distinctions between expert and nonexpert, fact or opinion, and (increasingly) human or AI. We naturally grow suspicious of almost everything we see on screens. Information overload renders all information suspect.
The “everything, everywhere, all at once” structure of internet life also explains why we’ve grown accustomed to incoherence. We’re constantly confronted with disconnected fragments, contradictory ideas, dueling opinions, and the whiplash of narratives that drastically change in real time (e.g., 2019’s Jussie Smollett hoax or this year’s KateGate). …
… Byung-Chul Han is correct to point to this “deluge of information” as the cause of our “narrative crisis.” It’s no surprise that, detached from bigger pictures and swimming in a sea of fragments, we’re losing our ability to be bothered by or even notice inconsistencies. When incoherence is all our mind encounters, it doesn’t register as an aberration. …
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/internet-vibes-arguments/
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rkessler, are those open MRI’s much different from the regular ones?
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Hope all will be well with you in those winds and dry conditions. We just had a bit of rain again. Always a relief.
We went to see Ordinary Joe this afternoon. I wasn’t sure whether I would like it, but I am glad I went to see it. The acting with excellent. The story was interesting and told in an unusual way. The characters were not ‘cleaned up’ as so often in movies with a Christian theme. The only downside was that the price was almost double from what I expected. That was by the order of the producers. The theater had no choice. Sadly, that may keep some from seeing it.
World gave it a mixed review and I do understand why. At one point the main character answers a man that he doesn’t want to convert him and doesn’t care if he believes in God, Buddha or a giant unicorn. How any Christian can have that attitude is beyond me. Like I said, though, the movie keeps it real it seems.
The story is based on the true story of the man who insisted on taking a knee after every football game at a public high school. The case went to the Supreme Court.
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i dont know about open mri’s, this one was a regular tube.
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