The report, which was published on November 15, confirms that the tower has been in an “inescapably critical condition for some time,” and suggests that previous interventions, including a “hoop” of steel rods and cables around the base in 2020, have aggravated the situation.
And no, it's not the famous one in Pisa. It's one you've never heard of…well, I've never heard of…in Bologna.
Who knows where else?
With concerns over climate change growing, Joe Biden, during his 2020 campaign, promised to stop drilling on federal lands and federal waters offshore. He also pledged to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and electric cars to drastically reduce the emissions responsible for climate change.
[Article from The New York Times.]
According to the state’s Motor Vehicles Department, a plate marking the state’s fishing industry had some fishermen upset about the design: a green background with the year, a small fish and an abbreviation of the state’s name along the bottom in white, under the white plate number. According to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles website, the fishermen thought the fish, which was supposed to represent a cod, was too small and looked more like a guppy. It also appeared to be swimming away from the word “MASS.”
Looks like a guppy to me.
Twenty-five days, Siri tells me. And the neighbors have put up Christmas lights on their front porch.
It's not a splash display: It's a fringe of little white lights around the edge of the porch roof. But they're there and that's what counts.
They'll be on this house pretty soon too, I imagine. About the same, but colored. Until Easter. Or so.
The weather may change a bit from year to year, but that does not.
One of the strangest things about being retired is that weekends still feel like weekends and holidays like holidays, even though they're not much different than just regular days. Except a few.
Take last week.
Thursday there was football in the afternoon. The next day, same thing. The next day must be Monday, right?
Wrong. The next day was Saturday. Who knows what Sunday was.
Today is Monday. Finally. I'm sure. I looked it up.
And this evening da Bears play.
No escape from the day after that.
"Some participants felt they fell back on familiar talking points, said a White House official familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private exchange."[From a Washington Post story this morning about…well…doesn't matter.]
