Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning!!!
Fresh and bright this morning!!!
We gots Fire-Roasted Fireside medium roast coffee. In the teapots, we have some Red Rose and Russian Caravan teas. Cold drinks are refreshed so there's lemonade and unsweet iced tea ready. Sodas are stocked up.
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I was talking about Trump getting shot, the IT outage, and Biden stepping down, all in the space of under two weeks. The pace is simply insane.
True enough. Biden alone is a once in a lifetime thing, it would seem. Last Dem to step aside from seeking re-election was Johnson and that happened when I was 3.
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Sara, I am writing about the Braves! Specifically the Mets/Braves 1999 NLCS. You guys won it but I still went to two of the best games I’ve ever seen. If you like I will send a link tomorrow when it goes out in the newsletter.
That's brave. (flees as the groans begin)
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We have weekly “once in a lifetime” events occurring now.
Actually, Friday's "once in a lifetime" event was more than just the USA, believe me. Chaos all around. And I am not yet convinced it will be "once in a lifetime". Sucky programming has been with us as long as I have been in IT. This was just the worse to date. Who knows what AI will manage to do?
I frequently watch videos by music YouTuber Nahre Sol, a classically trained pianist and composer who explores music from a variety of styles. And last night, she introduced me to Tigran Hamasyan, an Armenian jazz musician and composer with myriad influences from the folk music of his own culture to metal (Meshuggah specifically got name-checked).
And the profile from Nahre's channel:
Well, it's late but it is also Sunday. There's Don Rey's French Roast from Las Chicas brewed for the coffee set. Teas are Darjeeling and Sangria White. Cold beverages also available in the fridge.
I went back to an old project to see how it stood up after a few months and realized that I totally f-d up a plot point. The protagonist inherits a house but then in the next chapter, I have her visiting the wrong house. It was supposed to be one her late, estranged mother inherited from the protagonist's maternal grandfather. But then I describe the place as being built only a few years ago and describe it as a fairly modern house with a huge master suite and that sort of thing. D'oh. Some major rewriting needed to fix this one. Maybe just jettison that second chapter and start over.
American singer Chrissy Costanza, who has fronted the band Against The Current for about 12 years starting when she was sixteen, released her first solo single and video yesterday. She's got a great voice and I'm glad to see her taking this step. Just saw her band's set from Pinkpop, a big Dutch music festivals, a couple weeks ago, too.
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There were issues nationwide earlier today, apparently in Canada too. Tech issues affecting planes, pharmacies, websites, etc. I could very well be wrong about SS but your post sounds like what I learned of earlier. All should be back in order now.
That post of mine is from four days ago, though. The outage you're referring to started last night when an alleged security vendor managed to screw up a patch on their software. What a mess. The CEO is apologizing but given that their stock tanked when the markets opened this morning, I imagine he's dusting off his resume.
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I am not very familiar with Wordsworth but his poetry is beautiful.
Amen. Wonderful poet.
I will get to yours soon.
Another nice day in my neck of the woods. Supposed to heat up on the weekend but today looks good.
Throwing on some Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from Fire-Roasted for the coffee crowd. For teas, we got Raspberry Royale black tea and Buddha's Blend, which is jasmine green blended with white. Washed the pitchers and made fresh iced tea and lemonade. Sodas are stock up.
It's Friday! Weekend is coming!!
New music from Dutch metal mezzo Simone Simons today. Her first solo album is due in August. For this track, she has some familiar faces in tow. Mark Jansen, her bandmate in the band Epica since 2002, contributes some harsh vocals and the whole band joins a bunch of other Dutch metalheads to form a chorus for the R.E.D. Crowd Chant. Multitalented Dutch musician Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, Star One) once again provides the music for Simone's lyrics and produces.
Thanks, Verbs. I do agree on the consistency. Chapter I is pretty set, but I can keep that in mind as I work on the next few. Other opinions still welcome, of course.
And good morning. First really nice day in a while. Not too hot, not too humid, no rain or flooding. So I'm actually using my other home office, aka the deck, today.
Coffee is a dark roast from Lavazza. Teas are Assam and Mukujima Sencha (Japanese green). Cold drinks for those still battling heat are iced tea, lemonade, and an assortment of sodas, all waiting for you in our perpetually cold fridge.
Have a nice one, folks! Later.
