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I love me a well done professional show in the proper places...but every yahoo blowing up their neighborhood nightly gets tiring. It has been very quiet in my area wrt fireworks this year

You can enjoy the strong cane and tornado. I will admire from afar

Yeah, it was ghastly. Even if the current rate continued for two full years (which it won’t) we wouldn’t even be at 700k. Not that that is good.

Oregon i think

Traffic cams in Cali

Nice porker feet from shore Provincetown

They have been worse than the Sox lately. Lots of injuries and bad managing

Anyhoo...the New England states really seem to have done a good job squashing it. I really hope I can get my students in front of me physically sooner rather than later.

I think the concern at Sturgis was the bars...indoors, no masks, no distancing. I don't think the outdoor stuff there was a big spreader (my opinion only) It will take a long time to determine whether this really had a big impact. I think some to be sure, but I doubt the 250,000 or so these guys are attributing to it.

Yeah. I’m very skeptical of that study. I’m sure it’s tentacles are reaching pretty deeply but some of the figures I’ve read seem high But then again, the Biogen conference with just 150 or so people is thought to have lead to 20k cases. A much longer time period

We try not to let our dog in the woods too much (she did hike up the hill with us yesterday though). We haven't seen much tick activity so far. Dry summers will help with that I guess. There should be an uptick (no pun intended) as we get into cooler and damper months. I hate ticks. I don't remember them being as big an issue when I was a kid, although Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever existed and a family member got Lyme in the early 1980s

Great day for a hike up Wachusett. Summit was about as crowded as I’ve ever seen it though.

If anyone is considering a Wachusett season pass and wants to save a few bucks, send me a message. I have a GPS group.

If you are working under the table and something bad happens to the kid you are fooked. No protection

Maybe a cicada killer. Those get big

Yeah but then you are open for things like lawsuits etc. the $2200 would pay for insurance and lawyers etc as well Thats still nuts.

Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, To morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting; The sooner will his Race be run, And neerer he's to Setting. That Age is best, which is the first, When Youth and Blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.

I wish they had called it Skynet

Now I want tacos. Wachusett Brewery stopped selling their fish tacos this summer. I miss them.

I personally have no issues with it. I like doing it. If my elderly mother in law (89?)can make one less trip into a crowd (even non Covid related...her driving isn’t so good) I feel better. She hand delivered to her local ballot box early. I got an I voted pen today (they were not RE-using them) instead of an I voted sticker.

State. US Senate and rep. Some local stuff. Primaries

Our volunteers all appeared to be past retirement age today. Still seemed very safe. I’m not personally worried about mail getting lost etc. delayed yes... I’m glad there are options (absentee, mail in, early) It should be fine

Sometimes I vote against someone. Lol Our son voted for the first time today

I just voted in person. I almost did the mail in ballot to be deposited at my town hall but figured I had time. We never have too many people at our sole polling place. For those who need (elderly, frail) it I feel mail in done the right way is useful and low risk.

Very hard to get into the vocational (trade) school here. It is by lottery after you clear the requirements. Place is packed and they get new equipment all the time. The teachers make good coin too. Welding and electrical are prob their top two groups, their health stuff is in high demand as well. Our son did well via the carpentry program. Way ahead of his peers at his university