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Haven’t figured out how to do multiple pics on MeWe yet, so here’s yesterday. Local creek and waterfall with spray formed ice on trees and roots with the waterfall forming and washing away some of the ice simultaneously.

Spring snow!

Yes, that is a Tom & Jerry in a carnival glass Tom & Jerry mug. Also a beef on weck. It seems anymore you can get good beef lots of places but the rolls always come up short in some way. I like caraway so I expect to have at least equal amounts of caraway and salt. Not gonna quibble about what kind of salt or the fact that nobody seems to have a proper hard roll kimmelweck. The important thing is that this place serves Tom & Jerrys until April, rather than stopping at New Year. Drinking before 5, amiright? For trivia buffs this is a place where Anthony Bourdain ate and I presume had it on one of his shows.

trigger warning: cancer and illness and death language Thought about this article for a while and mostly my reaction is ‘all of this’. It’s really hard, and I am infinitely grateful that all of you are so thoughtful and aware and never made this even harder than it was. Allow cancer patients to define themselves, always, And talk directly to the people most affected by our words. https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-monday-cancer-language-alex-trebek-reader-reaction-0311-story,amp.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-monday-cancer-language-alex-trebek-reader-reaction-0311-story,amp.html

Sigh. Not sleepin’. I foresee a lot of coffee in my future. ☕️ 😴

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A conversation I found edifying on NPR. Among other things, there’s an excellent clarification of racism and anti-semitism (different things, both bad). https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/03/15/anti-semitism-jewish-history-news https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/03/15/anti-semitism-jewish-history-news

I’m sure there’s a term for this but I can’t think of it. Simultaneously offering “warmest sympathy” for a “horrible massacre”, also “terror attacks” and a “horrible event” while believing it’s not white nationalism that’s the problem, it’s just some crazy people. Those two things don’t jibe. It’s the wrong analogy, but Hitler was just some crazy person, too. Somehow, that didn’t minimize the problem. And if you’re not part of the solution, here, you are definitely part of the problem. https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/15/politics/white-house-new-zealand-mosque-attacks/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/15/politics/white-house-new-zealand-mosque-attacks/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/

This is a sfinge. Deep fried, airy, crispy outside dough with ricotta and candied citrus peel. In this case with sprinkles and a cherry on top. Also called zeppole in various incarnations. Made specifically for St. Joseph’s Day, which is March 19th. This is from a local, family owned, old school Italian bakery. Happy St. Joseph’s Day!

Uh, wut? ”This is a new type of aircraft with a new black box, with new software. We can't do it," BFU spokesman Germout Freitag said. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1QU2HG https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1QU2HG

This is my favorite relatively recent photo of me and my dad. It's at Rocky Mountain National Park, somewhere above 11,000 feet. It was windy, obs. My dad was as photo averse as most of us, so I don't have a lot of pics of him, and fewer with him, but I have a very few from places we went hiking together. 💔😢

He doesn’t really get anything, does he? It’s too hard to understand so let’s just oversimplify and thus mislead. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/12/trump-says-planes-too-complex-after-crash-of-boeing-jet-in-ethiopia.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/12/trump-says-planes-too-complex-after-crash-of-boeing-jet-in-ethiopia.html

So, yeah. The interview part of this article is reasonable and makes sense. My reactions to the main story went from how could anyone be this stupid to duh, obvious how. The stupid about semantics over “robot” versus “secure video technology” versus FaceTime or whatever is that when the family says they got talked at by a robot they are telling you something . Iow, “robot” contains all the alienation and lack of compassion they felt because people just didn’t think before they did this. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/11/18256929/telepresence-robot-hospitals-patient-information-medical-news-ethics-kaiser https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/11/18256929/telepresence-robot-hospitals-patient-information-medical-news-ethics-kaiser

Maybe odd question for all and sundry who might know. My sister and I have voice mail messages from our dad we hadn't deleted from our phones and we'd like to save them more permanently. Is there a way to do that?

This makes it official, right? The GOP, Tea Party, Freedom Caucus, and Conservatives in general are no longer the "party of fiscal responsibility" but the party of tax cuts and spend? Granted it's Congress that's supposed to handle the money, but since the GOP has clearly decided this guy is, indeed, their leader they may be presumed to be a-ok with his every move until proven otherwise. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/us/politics/trump-budget.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/us/politics/trump-budget.html

In a super meta misogynist move, Fox gets all huffy over hijabs and women who speak aloud criticize other women while being totally fine with Tucker Carlson and his persistent and public chauvinism and misogyny. #shocking https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/10/media/jeanine-pirro-ilhan-omar/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/10/media/jeanine-pirro-ilhan-omar/index.html

Have some before and after grooming photos.

Aside from ragey flailing, I thought there was case law establishing that society gets to have an overriding interest about not abusing children by withholding appropriate and necessary medical attention? This child needs to be vaccinated. What are we supposed to do? Wait until he dies? Fat lot of good waiting for that will do, not to mention who pays for his treatment and what if he ends up with long term disability? How can this possibly be ok? Parents who let their children refuse chemo for cancer have been dragged before the courts and chemo is terrible to go through. But it’s ok for parents to do this because of stubborn superstitious nonsense and we’re all ok with it? Wtaf?? https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/boy-spent-47-agonizing-days-in-icu-with-tetanus-parents-still-refuse-vaccines/?amp=1 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6809a3.htm?s_cid=mm6809a3_e

So, yeah. My innards may not be fully functioning but it’s a fundraiser for hospice so I figured I had to at least try one. Lots of chocolate chips and ricotta. The filling is made fresh each day by a local Italian bakery. Have to say it’s a tad rich although not overly sweetened. The crunch from a cannoli shell would add some texture that might cut a bit of the richness. It also might work well frozen. For some reason sometimes sweet things seem better frozen. So it’s definitely a good variant donut but extremely rich.

Ok. So, definitely over the evil influenza. Just about over but still dealing with GI side effects from tamiflu. Thus am still taking several medications for my stomach. Fun times. Hope that goes away completely very soon. Am, obviously, still dealing with shock around garbage surrounding dad's death. It takes a long time to process that stuff. Surprise. Even more surprising - so.much.anger. Like, wow. Also, of course, very down about my dad. But haven't had space to start processing that because ill, of course, but mostly because assholes and funeral and so forth. Finally got a hold of the hospice bereavement services people and have appt to meet with someone next week. They never actually followed up with me and still have not followed up and contacted anyone else (they're supposed to but haven't) except my mother, so I am going to have a little chat with them about that to start with. It's not support if a month after the death you haven't done anything excep...