Category: Life & Death
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slow rise
1,228 more people tested, 1.4 time more people than reported yesterday. 41 new cases, 1.2 times more than yesterday. 11 new cases in Dane County. No new deaths reported. Trump wants to lift restrictions by the end of the week because the economy’s not making enough money. Sick and dead workers don’t make money, you Read.
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#safeathome
855 more people tested. Thirty-five more confirmed cases. One added death in Milwaukee County. No new positives in Dane County. The governor ordered all non-essential services shut down tomorrow and told everyone to stay indoors. Working at home again this week. I’m not sure how much I like this working from home. On the one Read.
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thirty-six percent
1702 more people tested. One-hundred more cases today over yesterday’s total, a thirty-six percent increase, can probably be attributed to more testing but is right in line with the daily thirty-three percent increase seen in other countries. No increase in the number of deaths, thank goodness. Source: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/outbreaks/index.htm Read.
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So long Boo
So long, Boo. I miss your crooked little tail already. Read.
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myelinated
I went to the eye doctor yesterday afternoon because my prescription seemed a little out of whack and it had been about five years since I’d had my eyes checked last. The office I went to last was in a Shopko that closed last summer, but the office moved to a strip mall about two Read.
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Fifty nine
I called mom last night and one of the topics of conversation was my upcoming 60th birthday, which is in fact a year and three days from now but I didn’t correct her because, you know, 59, 60, what’s the difference? She brings it up the topic of my age more often than she used Read.
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stuffed
It’s about quarter to nine on Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving, and my sinuses are still stuffed full of whatever nasty goop sinuses fill up with when they’re infected by whatever nasty bug I got infected by. I got a pretty solid six, maybe seven hours of sleep last night before I couldn’t breath Read.
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climate change
A few random thoughts about climate change, in no particular order: I don’t “believe in” climate change. I’m not entirely sure what the phrase “believe in” means. It’s most often used in the context of “believing in” god or supernatural phenomena or something for which there is no hard evidence. Until I see some hard Read.
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vaxed to the max
Here’s how I know the anti-vaxxers are full of shit: I got shots every week when I was a kid. Every. Single. Week. Or at least, that’s how I remember it. This was all part of the 1960’s optimism that medical science would someday wipe all disease off the face of the earth. Our teachers Read.
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Fare thee well, Dick Gordon
A fair wind and following seas to you, Dick Gordon, and thank you. Command Module pilot Dick Gordon in his spacecraft (NASA photo) Read.
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