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Global warming ahead

GLOBAL WARMING AHEAD

Day-after-day for the month of May with only several exceptions, Deena and I have heard about ferocious storms sweeping across the heartland of the U.S.  They included tornados; hurricane-force, straight-line winds; damaging hail and so on. Last weekend, seven people in Texas were killed in a tornado only twelve miles from where I once lived.  Hours later, another twister grazed the town where Deena’s son and his family live.  Sunday, my son who is a fire fighter and EMT said he was deployed...

PUTIN’S DOGS

СОБАКИ ПУТИНА There is an old saying that the best thing about a man is his dogs. Unlike cats, dogs take the responsibility and do the heavy lifting when it comes to bonding with a person. They seek approval from people. Dogs will perform hilarious and sometimes humiliating tricks for a treat. Try getting a cat to perform. I’ve always gotten along with dog owners. I find that regardless of the breed, dog owners are most often friendly and it...

CHRISTIANS AND NARCISSISM

The terms “Christian” and “narcissism” should be mutually exclusive, but unfortunatelty they are not for reasons that will shortly become evident. The word “narcissism” has a very interesting origin. Narcissus was a figure in Greek mythology. He was exceptional in beauty and prowess (and he knew he was.) There was also a cursed nymph named Echo. Echo was cursed by Hera because Echo would try to distract Hera from finding Here’s usband Zeus carrying on with another woman. Echo’s curse was that...

OZEMPIC! NOT JUST FOR DIVAS

Warning! This post includes references to poop which some readers might find offensive. I used to watch the comedy show Cheers on television every week, and while I initially identified with Cliff Claven (John Ratzenberger) who appeared to be an Aspie like me–though in a USPS uniform–I later found that, in fact, I could relate to Kirstie Alley more than I could with any other character in the show.  And this relationship had to do with weight. The ups and downs of it I...

For the sake of ten righteous people

FOR THE SAKE OF TEN RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE

I tried to follow the six week trial in New York City where Donald J. Trump was the defendant.  It just depressed me.  The defendant has a record of having lied or misled his audiences 30,573 times as of January 24, 2021.  In the last month he lied about his legal problems. He said he was not able to testify on his own behalf in open court because of the gag order. The judge went out of his way to assure him and the public...

GLIESE 667 AS A 3-BODY PROBLEM (三体)

GLIESE 667 AS A 3-BODY PROBLEM (三体)

As the Hubble and Webb telescopes discover more and more star systems, it was only a matter of time before systems with three or more stars that orbit each other or otherwise move in respect to each other were discovered.  Now, the once obscure hypothesis known as the “three-body problem” is making the astrophysical news as the reality of such a possibility becomes clear.  Here, we’ll look at the star system Gliese 667 as part of my exobiology research with a focus...

CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS

CALIBAN UPON SETOBOS

Deena sent me to the market a year ago.  She asked me to bring home a pair of steamed lobsters.  When I arrived, I went to the seafood counter to place my order and a young clerk a bit on the scrawny side asked me to pick out the lobsters from the tank next to the counter.  There were about eight to twelve lobsters in the tank, but only two were actively moving about.  The clerk looked at me.  One or two lobsters appeared like...

Our Sojourn in Maine

OUR SOJOURN IN MAINE

Deena and I had been planning a short trip to Maine for well over a year. It was to coincide with her seventieth birthday. We had a large Airbnb house reserved and she planned to invite a number of guests, but then the house was taken off the Airbnb listings around the end of last year. This past February, we found another, much smaller accommodation on the coast and reserved that house. The plan at that point was for Deena,...

Blank verse

BLANK VERSE

Deena and I first met online about eight months after my wife died. After a few weeks of trading messages, Deena invited me to meet her on a Saturday afternoon for an Oktoberfest festival in McKinney, TX. We spend four or five hours talking, listening to the music and watching people drift by. Afterwards, we had a wonderful dinner at Deena’s favorite restaurant, Mio Nonno, in Allen. The following Saturday, it rained and we watched videos all day. By then,...

Purple collar gets a new name

PURPLE COLLAR GETS A NEW NAME

Deena and I leave for a short vacation in Maine in a week. We decided to take Molly with us, so I applied for an emotional support pet certification for her and we got it a short while later along with a harness that service and emotional support dogs, wear. Molly loves wearing things and loves how we tell her how pretty she looks. She has a red, plaid, flannel canine shirt she wears when it gets cold and she...

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