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Never give your parents grief

It's a pretty solid rain right now in Seattle. We're very close to the I'm always cold season. It doesn't matter how many layers one wears...always a little cold.

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An Unreliable Narrator

I have been out with friends a few times the past week or two, and inevitably portions of the discussions involved COVID. I've started describing my experience with a breakthrough

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Here comes the rain again

It was a dark, windy, and rainy night. Sounds like we're going to get drenched here in the Pacific Northwest. Stay safe everyone! Let's hope it helps with western wildfires. I thought this was a pretty cool description from the National Weather Service: Given

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Carthage Must Be Destroyed

Carthāgō dēlenda est. ~ Cato (via Wikipedia) The sirens beckon. I am lost in the ancient world. A re-discovery of sorts. I spent the last 6 years or so not wanting to think too much about the Middle East. I'd had enough, for a lot

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On the Streets

Half of what you see, none of what you hear

Today was a good day, yesterday was pretty lousy. Let's start with the lousy. It started off ok. The building manager and the gas meter inspector folks were coming round.

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Maybe a bad idea (I'm full of them)

Charles Mudede is a fantastic writer, economist, film-maker...how do people get so talented at so many things. He has an article in The Stranger about climate change that made a lot of sense to me, things I've been thinking about for a while

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Don't forget the good

Muddling along in the meh zone. I'm not feeling awesome, but I'm not feeling terrible, either. If things continue like this for a few more days, I'll be grateful. It helps having friends and family who check in on you. Instant morale boost. A

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The White Lotus

I blazed through HBO's The White Lotus. It's a very dark comedy set in Hawaii. I enjoyed it, but it gets dark fast. I have some complaints, but I don't want to ruin anything. I thought the acting was great. If you've seen it,

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Off the Road

I've finally finished Kerouac's On the Road. I'm glad I revisited it, and I'm glad I'm done with it. My copy is an underlined mess. I'll probably just hold onto it now until I throw it out. I think anyone else trying to read

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Dana Frankoff film Voice Above Water

I watched an incredible short film on Vimeo today - Dana Frankoff's Voice Above Water. You probably already guessed most of that from the post's title. Powerful, beautiful, sad. It's about 12 minutes. I recommend it. And maybe if enough of us watch it,

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Hey there PNW

I've been thinking about you all and the heat. I've escaped the furnace of Phoenix for cooler temperatures in the high desert, but the memory of that oppressive heat remains,

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Kate Winslet is a treasure

I'm watching and very much enjoying Mare of Easttown. It's nearing the end. I'm going to discuss it a bit, but don't worry, you won't run into any spoilers. Kate Winslet is an amazing actor. I don't know the chronology of her career. She

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Keep it up, Washington

When facing down a pandemic caused by a frightening virus, humility is key, especially when you're a blogger without any trace of scientific or medical background. But we're all allowed

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Quick Check in

Hello! Sorry for the absence. That second Pfizer shot knocked me on my keister and off rhythm. I got the shot early, at about 1000. At about 2200 I started feeling off. By 2300 I felt like I'd been hit by a freight train.

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Tufekci's look at what we knew when in COVID fight

How's your COVID bandwidth? Zeynep Tufekci has an amazing essay examining the early timeline of our COVID knowledge. Hmm, poorly worded. I've had too much coffee and not enough breakfast. Tufekci shows that "we" knew early on the main COVID risks - indoors in