Our friend the stuffed elephant was prepared for the storm. Fortunately, it changed over to rain after around 11 am or so. I am proud of myself that I drove Robert to work in spite of less than great conditions.
Author: thecapeblog
Until the Last Dog Dies
Likewise, the atheist Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of deeply Catholic France, mused, “No society can exist without inequality of fortunes; and inequality of fortunes cannot exist without religion.
“When a man is dying of hunger beside another who is stuffing himself with food, he cannot accept this difference if there is not an authority who tells him, ‘God wishes it so.’”
Jim Pence of Glendale, Ky., who runs the feisty Hillbilly Report Blog, put it similarly, if more inelegantly and irreverently: “Never before have so few with so much promised to take away so much from so many and then laugh their asses off as the so many with so little vote for the so few with so much.”
Truck Repairs
Do You Know (Diana Ross)
Heard this on the radio the other day when I was driving back from Hyannis Toyota and it resonated.
Now looking back at all we’ve planned
We let so many dreams
Just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long
Before we’ll see
How sad the answers
To those questions can be
Do you know where you’re going to
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to
Do you know
Do you get
What you’re hoping for
When you look behind you
There’s no open doors
What are you hoping for
Do you know
71: the Frolic Begins
Ready for the Storm?
Ron finished the little fence around the small tulip patch and I anchored the fence on one of the other gardens.
500 Women in Science
At a meeting of the Woods Hole “pod” this week, it was gratifying to see the number of women who are able to make a living in STEM fields in this area.
They claimed to value diversity in their work forces, but no one in these competitive fields wants to hear that their professional success is the result of luck and social class as much as hard work and ability, nor are they really willing to do what is needed to lower the barriers for those who weren’t born as lucky.
Shoreline Walks
Revolt Against Whiteboarding
Emergency Brake
Got the truck back with a new emergency brake.
Ron and I cleared the pile of branches that’s been building up for months.
I blew off one stupid technical assessment but completed another that was successful.
Ron paid for my garden tools at WhatAGrind.