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Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 77 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 100. Mostly sunny skies with a slight chance of late afternoon rain. The moon is not visible here until very late at night and in the morning it is too cloudy to see her before she disappears over the horizon. I am hoping to catch a glimpse this weekend when she aligns better with my location.
In order to successfully ignore the presidential “debate”, I will have to start today in the run-up to the media event. So I am going news-lite and will focus on sports and local news.
See all y’all later!
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! It’s 84 F. at the moment, on its way up to 99 F. The weather jesters are predicting thunderstorms at 2 p.m., and they may well happen, somewhere. Just not in Ashburn, where we’re already 3 inches under normal rainfall for the month. I’m going to start researching rain spells.
I’m off to an event at Democratic HQ at noon today—America’s Dad, Tim Kaine, is supposed to be there. Got a pile of desk work to get through, also some laundry.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Good morning, 59 and cloudy with rain later today. My friend didn’t feel well enough for a visit yesterday so I napped and read book #5 in The Time Police series. Jodi Taylor’s books are entertaining light reading, but with enough substance to be interesting. The “ghost train” theme became a bit annoying but the books are short and given my memory I’ll soon forget what bothered me! Best wishes to all.
My bookchat, about a bookish auction for GOTV efforts: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/26/2248415/-Bookchat-Romancing-the-Vote-is-back
Good morning. I walked, and that felt fine, what doesn’t is sitting in my office chair. Lucky I get to leave early for the nurse to change my dressing. My diary last night bombed. Only 8 comments. I really thought people would be excited about a fun way to raise money for GOTV.
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It’s 70 going up to 91 heat index mostly the same. PV system is down. I did finally reach the installer. Or rather I found an email reply from the installer when I got online this morning timestamped 9:16 last night. He tried to do a remote check but nope. He’s not sure when he can get to me (ahem!) but will let me know today. And this morning my big computer is dead. No power light even. Thank All That’s Holy my laptop is working – and basket updated it when he was here. It’s going to take a little getting used to but at least I’m online. I haven’t reached Fineena in 2 days. If I don’t reach her tonight I’ll check and see if Joker has. If not, I’ll call Matthews itself. Now I’d best get to my boosting day. Holding the Good Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
That’s worrisome about Fineena! Hope it’s just dumb thunderstorms that knocked Matthews offline.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 78 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 102. Sunny skies are in the forecast with a small chance of rain in the late afternoon.
I will not watch the debate – life is too short. First, I won’t watch CNN or CNN news readers, they are dead to me after refusing to fire the Kamala birther news reader and for providing a free platform for nazis to take over our government in 2016. I just finished watching the (Dee recommended) Amazon video “Power of the Dream” and it ripped the scab off of all terrible things that happened in 2016, the entire tRump maladministration and the awful summer of 2020. It was a great documentary and I recommend it – it did have a happy ending – but it was tough to watch some of it. I have a new appreciation for the sacrifices Black woman athletes made to literally save democracy.
I had to take my walk indoors yesterday because I missed the sweet spot for outdoor walks. I finished my early morning hot project and I just need to make some notes and then I can head outside.
See all y’all later!
Good Thursday morning, Meese! Today it’s already 76 F., going up to 89 F. The sky is a pale, soft, almost Canadian-looking blue, because the white veils of cloud make the light look silvery. We did not get the severe thunderstorms They predicted last night, no lightning, no thunder, nothing like that, but we did get some rain about 10 p.m. I went out onto the porch to listen to it falling. Good show.
Yesterday I had back-to-back meetings, so I totally missed my afternoon rest. My upstairs neighbor and I drove to Northern Virginia Democratic HQ together and saw quite a few people. I had my picture taken with Senator Kaine! He liked my t-shirt, which displayed a picture of Thomas Jefferson and the legend: “Oh, crap! That’s due tomorrow?” Thomas Jefferson, July 3, 1776. We listened to all the freshly elected people who emphasized that, although every election is important, this time democracy itself is on the ballot.
Good neighbor dropped me off at Willow Crossing, which is three buildings over from where I live, for my next meeting. It turned out I was early. The only person there, also early, was the impressive, even rather intimidating Kate. Every time I see her, I want to burst into some version of Petruchio’s speech: “Good morrow, Kate! You are called Kate the Fair and Kate the Rich and sometimes Kate the Shrew. But Kate, you are the prettiest Kate in Christendom…” She’s really tall and has a background in dramatic arts that puts the rest of us to shame.
Anyway, the leader of the Play Selection Group turned up, as did a fellow with an outsize ego, and C., whom I like very much. She thought “Risque Rendezvous,” my skit, was hilarious and has scheduled its presentation for the August meeting. If only my fellow actor’s wife would relent and let him play the role of Nigel!
Well, enough about that. Bored yet? Today I’m going to a meeting of the actors and directors of “Clue,” a play the Audiovisual department wants to put on. None of us has received a script, so this should be quite puzzling!
The black cartridge has arrived—yay! And yes, I will watch the debate for as long as I can stand it. If I begin to feel nauseated, I’ll leave the room. Dearly is a glutton for punishment, he’ll sit through anything.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond! Still sending healing white light to the Meese who need it. A la prochaine, Meese!
Good morning, 55 and cloudy, but the rain is watering the garden so no complaints. I am finally addressing the state of my sewing room, yikes! I’ve kept the piles sorted but there are a lot of them. I know I will want to see what happens with the debates but just seeing tRump’s face triggers angst so I’ll avoid as best I can. Best wishes to all.