Got a nice walk in the woods in yesterday. I thought about going again today given the weather is sunnier than the rest of the week but the temperatures are also much higher, and my legs could use a day off. I also need to give my handgun some TLC. Yesterday when I went to unload it and secure it I found I couldn't rack the slide to unload it. With a little pressure I got it - I think the trouble was that it was under my T-shirt for an extended period and my T-shirt was soaked in sweat. I need to clean it and oil it, so I'll most likely spend some time doing that today. It was a bit concerning to find the slide was stuck last night.
Never had so much to do with such limited time and an energy deficiency. Major relocation to the Bay Area should transpire around year's end, Lord Willing. Organizing and leaving stuff behind. Likely need to get vaccine card codified or something.
These vaccine cards are getting scary. It seems in NYC you need papers to go out for dinner but requiring papers to vote is apparently racist. Go figure.
Is it any better than: - Everyone should get vaccinated so life can go back to normal (not that the old normal was great) - But even if you're vaccinated it's possible you could still transmit the virus - So wear a mask so life can go back to normal - But asks aren't 100% effective, so get vaccinated - But vaccines aren't 100% either, so please keep social distancing - The virus is airborne! 2 meters distance! - Now that people are vaccinated, 1-meter distance is fine, but maybe you should stick to 2 just because? - Oh, you should definitely stick to 2 because masks aren't 100% effective and delta / echo / foxtrot are gonna get you and then you'll kill your grandma by breathing around her - That's why you should get vaccinated - And wear a mask, because vaccines... - (Insert some line about almost being self-aware.) - Masks in schools but not in nightclubs? - Can't watch your kid play football but you can go to Wimbledon or EUFA? To be clear, I'm doubly vaccinated and expect a letter in a few weeks about an appointment for a booster, so this isn't some anti-vaccine screed.
It is more worrying, not least because when all we've got is talking heads on TV blathering on about the latest inconsistencies presented as if they were settled science they are easy enough to ignore. When the vaccine hasn't even been fully approved yet but still we're being threatened with more and more exclusion for not lining up like sheep to take it, even for those who have already fought and survived COVID, it gets concerning. When you need to prove you have taken an experimental drug to perform simple stuff but don't need to prove anything in order to vote (because apparently the poor brown people can't get IDs, even given four years notice) it suggests that any concept of sensibility is falling apart. The rhetoric about COVID has shifted so many times and proven so inconsistent it's all but worthless, but it's easier to ignore a talking head on TV and go about your life. It's less easy to ignore when you face what looks increasingly like a modern day version of "papieren bitte" to perform normal daily activities.
Sig Sauer P365X 9mm micro compact for optimum conceal carry. Nice! Tremendous balance. Checking out reloadable casings.
It used to be that nightclubs wouldn't let you in if you'd been taking experimental drugs. Now they won't let you in if you haven't been taking experimental drugs. It's a strange world.
Doesn't appear to be long at all before social media will play a crucial role in the economic ostrasization of many who simply hold to a particular (ahem) viewpoint, even to the extent that they will not be allowed to make a living.
Agreed. Freedoms of speech and religion so conveniently swept away by the moors of this emerging social convention. It's very telling how prospective employees are increasingly subject to social media history searches and scrutinized for their views.
Gotta preserve the woke somehow, even as more and more people are turning away from it. I gather the Olympics viewing figures were "less than expected" and people are turning off the NFL in droves because they don't want to see everything turned into a political soapbox.
Got a run in this morning. I'm trying to run the uphill sections as well as the flat and downhill sections, which makes the run more demanding but I need to do that sooner or later. It brings my overall speed down because I end up having to walk the easier sections to get my pulse back down but my hope is to improve endurance so I can get the speed back up. Then I got some plumbing work done in the basement. The outdoor tap is fed from a section I needed to turn off because it also feeds a bathroom I gutted. Having cut the pipe to the bathroom and capped the end I turned the valve back on, only to find it was jammed. So the plumbing job was to turn the water off at the master valve, drain most of the cold water pipes in the house, cut a load of old plumbing away, fit a new valve to the affected area and join it all back together again. And now the outside tap works again, a capped end is gone and a few other bits are tidied up. For some reason in years gone by somebody decided we needed an outdoor hot tap. I have no idea why - my wife doesn't feel the need to have it and we have never used it, so that's going to come out. It has been disconnected for months now, but today as part of the general tidyup I took out some more of the pipes feeding it, and now it neatly slides out through the hole in the wall for the pipe. I really struggle to see any need for a hot tap outdoors so it's more likely I'll seal up the hole than think about ways to reconnect it. The main thing is that the outdoor tap works again, which means I can clean off my bicycle that has been gathering dust of all descriptions for the last few years. It will be good to ride again.
Been a crazy month. Just got back from a week in what seemed the middle of nowhere (very northern BC), sent out final draft of a major report for another project, one-day helicopter visit to another property, and worked on a nearby project for a week. Now have to catch up on rock sample descriptions, plan another two field visits, start the reporting, finish a permit. Might be back at the local project for the fall, but so many things to do yet for everyone else. Can't complain I suppose.
This is nuts. God is awesome! As many of you may now, I tried a medical malpractice case that started August 10, and ended up in a hung jury. One of the big issues is called "apportionment," which means that the jury has to apportion the damaged to everyone that may have been at fault, even if they are not defendants in the lawsuit, and then reduce the amount the named defendants have to pay accordingly. Well, the GA supreme court just issued an opinion that turns that all on its head. The new law from the court is that because of the way the legislature wrote the law, apportionment only applies if there are multiple DEFENDANTS at trial. In my case, there's only one defendant, even though there were certainly others involved in the harm. So now, when we go back to trial in a month, apportionment is no longer on the table, which means that the one named defendant, the doctor, now faces ALL of the damages and can't pawn any off on the hospital, with whom we have settled already. BOOM! Thank God for mistrials.