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wnylib's JournalWhat strange or unusual food preferences do you have?
For example, in my teens, I often ate onion sandwiches, with freshly sliced, uncooked onions. Nothing else on the bread except ketchup. (But never before going on a date.) I still enjoy a ketchup and onion sandwich occasionally.
I like oatmeal without a sweetener. Maybe with raisins and cinnamon sometimes, but oatmeal seems naturally sweet enough to me without needing sugar. Same with Cheerios.
Pickles and mayo on melted cheese sandwiches. Mmm.
I'm confused. How can the Oregon
medical board revoke the license of a Dallas doctor? Is there a Dallas, Oregon?
So the death rate might change
from 1 to ?
Hope not. Death is a high price to pay, especially for people who are innocent victims of other people's selfishness.
But it is premature to conclude that there is only one death victim from the increase in infections.
O.M.G!!! Delta has definitely arrived in my rural NY county.
After vaccines came out, our infection rate dropped until it reached days at a time with 0 new cases, 0 deaths, and 0 hospitalizations by mid June. Occasionally there were 2 or 3 new cases.
Then, 3 weeks ago, cases started rising, from 0 to 3, then 5 at a time a few days in a row. Then 15.
Last Friday, there were 40 active cases, with 4 hospitalizations. I just checked our county health department website. There were 53 new cases over the weekend, 4 hospitalizations, and 1 death.
It will get much worse. The full vaccination rate for the county is 43%. The partial rate (1 shot) is 46%.
There are two small cities in the county. I live in one of them. The rest of the county is small villages, and farms. There are quite a few anti vaxxers and anti maskers in this area. People are still acting like the pandemic is over, but in reality, the next wave has just begun and nobody seems to be noticing it.
How people turn out after high school
Wow. I just browsed through a web site maintained by my high school graduating class. It lists every member of the almost 600 students, along with their senior yearbook photos. The site keeps track of where people are (with updated photos), who has not been located yet, and who is deceased, along with their obituaries. So the most detailed info is on the deceased ones.
Some people just knew, in high school, what they would go on to do and become. Others were uncertain and had some surprising outcomes.
I was not surprised that the one who knew since grade school that she wanted to be a nurse became one. Same for the one who decided she would be a doctor, a guy who knew he would be a lawyer, and several who wanted to be teachers.
But the surprises showed zero inclination that I can remember of what they eventually became.
There was the kid whose family immigrated from Italy when we were in grade school and vowed all through junior high that he would go back as soon as he finished school and was on his own. He stayed, became a high school English teacher, then a principal.
There was the very good looking guy who seemed to have no interests outside of girls, drinking, and music. He did get a degree in music, but then served a tour in Vietnam and returned to study veterinary medicine. Opened his own vet clinic and developed some patented medicines. Who knew?
But the most surprising was the guy who was hyper social, cussed constantly, and seemed like the most shallow person I knew, always mooching off of people at lunch. I took him for a perpetual drifter who would live off of others forever.
He first majored in fine art, then went to a seminary, became an Orthodox priest, and then an archbishop. He developed an educational program for children, wrote and illustrated books, directed choirs, developed a church web page, became a director of communications for the American Orthodox Church, and took in immigrants from Russia and Eastern Bloc nations when the Soviet Union collapsed and helped them assimilate. He married and had two chiildren, one of whom also became an Orthodox priest. A late bloomer, I guess.
Amazing what a difference there can be in people between high school and later years.
CDC says that the Delta variant is now the dominant one in the US
According to a report on NPR news tonight, the CDC says that the Delta variant of covid-19 now accounts for 51.7% of all new covid infections in the US, making it the dominant strain as it replaces the Alpha strain.
That didn't take long.
So you are ready and willing to play
into their hands and give them the civil war that they want. That's what their behavior now is all about.
Start a battle with them now and their sympathizers across the country will claim that this is their moment, time to rise up and fight. Innocent lives will be lost.
Handle this as a legal matter instead of going in with guns blazing and their balloon of heroism will deflate.
Buffalo NPR now reporting a partial collapse of a
three story building in downtown Buffalo. It was not occupied and there were no injuries, but the collapse has disrupted traffic in the area and blocked off one entry/exit to I90.
The building was in the process of renovations, but is now expected to be demolished.
Collapses of old buildings probably happen more often than most of us realize, but the Surfside tragedy makes us more aware of them now. Fortunately, this one is not a tragedy, except for the person or company that invested in the renovations.
Spooked while watching a ghost story
I was watching videos of the old TV show, Medium, about the psychic who worked for a DA and talked to ghosts. OK, so you don't have to believe it to enjoy the program. I like Harry Potter, too, but don't believe in witches.
Anyway, it was late night and quiet in my apartment building. My bedroom is off the living room, and the bedroom door is behind me when I'm watching the TV screen. i always leave that door open.
Just as Allison Dubois was trying to contact a ghost, I heard the bedroom door squeak behind me. WTH? I live alone. The windows were closed, so I ruled out a breeze. As I watched the door, it moved about an inch, then stopped. Did somebody get into the apartment earlier in the day when I was out for a few hours, and hide in the bedroom closet? But what for? There are more affluent neighborhoods in town than mine. In this town, I'm more likely to get attacked for my politics than my money.
As I searched my mind for plausible explanations, still wary of going to the door to check, the tip of a lime green pipe cleaner wiggled through the space under the door. Aha! My "ghost" intruder was Ember, the cat, entertaining herself, invisible to me from the other side of the door.
She likes to push pipe cleaners under doors, then pull them back. She had just discovered that the carpet resistance, combined with the twisted up pipe cleaner, made the bedroom door move, and was experimenting with it. By the time the video was done, the bedroom door was nearly closed, except for a small gap.
Of course she's not smart enough to deliberately spook me out while I watch a ghost story. But the timing couldn't have been more coincidental.
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