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The Doldums
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https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/the-doldums/
Random comment: I don't travel much (at all), but I'd estimate it's 1-in-150, maybe 1-in-500 masking in airports I was in this weekend. (we are few). I don't mask everywhere (lots of exposure in everyday life), but you aren't going to run into anyone you know out on a plane, and there's no social contract with strangers in random airports... but I guess the social pressures are very, very, very strong right now to not mask (at least, in the Southern US).. (I heard background "well the pandemic is over/glad they have stopped requiring vax" conversations clearly in reaction, as well as multiple people putting on masks when they didn't have them on before seeing me with a mask, seeing others were willing to go out on a social limb. Mostly because a DGAF what you think, random old white dude).
(That said, air quality in airports is good, as are MOVING airplanes in the air; but, taxiing not so good, and extremely crowded non air conditioned corridors are high risk, plus... bathrooms, gross. Some guy with snot actively dripping off his nose sat next to me and was wiping it on the chair... lol.)
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Rose Bay and Woollahra Point
Postcard with a black and white photograph of "Rose Bay and Woollahra Point", and a message on the reverse.
Ink, Paper
Woollahra Point, Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/31055
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This looks like a fabulous base for a Haloween prop, with giant stuffed furry fingers coming out of it and the spray paint on the outside relabeled "DANGER! MONSTER INSIDE!"
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Pleased with myself that I mowed the lawn last night because of incoming rain.
After I finished, showered, and sat down for a late dinner, the weather report changed: no rain this weekend.
This morning: rain is back on for Saturday.
Scattegoric* weather tells me Fall is here.
*Word? Probably not; feeling? Yes.
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wer sich nicht an doct‘lib bindet /
niemals einen facharzt findet
für die menschen, die uns pflegen /
gibt's nur stress und kein' kollegen
und private krankenkassen /
spalten auf uns in zwei klassen
haben sie auch was für's karma? /
für unsere freunde von big pharma? /
so höret meine diagnose: /
dies' system geht in die hose.
#Gesundheitswesen #ReimDingsi #Random
Resealed the shed roof with asphalt, where it leaks in very intense rainstorms. However, now am wondering if the leaking is actually due to a hatch we put up there (we thought it was a good idea at the time to make roof access easier...), which shows water staining on the underside. (ie, rain bouncing off roof and being forced up underneath the edge of the hatch and wicking down into the shed). 🤨
In which case, the "deploy a tarp over hatch during winter/hurricanes/tropical storms" may be the better option, but will require some stout anchoring of the tarp.
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You wonder if these folks bought a pallet of stuff, they are extreme couponers, these are "falling off the back of a truck", someone has a shoplifting habit and has to bleed off the stuff they don't need, or they're actually buying these at wholesale prices and thinking they can make a profit 🤔 #random #garagesales
#3goodthings
All's well. Follow-up post-surgery appointment went well. I can now begin increasing my mobility and light lifting using common sense. Guess that means I'll be mowing the lawn next week.
Opted for a movie afternoon & evening. First-time watch of Cocaine Bear and M3GAN. Yes, I opted for the absurd (they're so much fun).
Warm bread & butter with a bowl of chili.
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#Random observation.
Having just started listening to LPs, there's definitely a single task/mindfulness aspect to the whole affair. Or can be.
i.e. put on a record (not doing anything else); look at the cover, read the liner notes (there are many!), read the lyrics. Tactile feedback in holding a record album, and also the scent of cardboard, dust, ozone off the stereo system.
(contrast with most digital music... bring up the track, listen to it on the phone or computer while surfing the internet/etc. etc. -- you're only engaging your ears, and through the interfaces you are used to).
Anyway, wonder if that is part of the appeal to this medium for some. (note that CDs do not provide the same full experience, i.e. missing the large album and liner notes). Yeah, it's not a superior audio medium in terms of quality or accuracy to recording, etc. etc., but there's another element here offered by the delivery mechanism.
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Decorated Text Page (Ms. 116 (2018.43), fol. 467)
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Date: 1296
Creator: Unknown, French or German
Place: or Germany; France
Size: 27.5 × 21 cm
Material: Tempera colors, gold, and ink
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109P68
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title: Great Hero, a chief
artist: George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
notes: “I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which […]
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https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4075
I kinda see the immigrants leaving service jobs and disabled/lgbtq/elderly are in more visible positions. I wonder if this is real, or just my perception.
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Coogee Beach, Sydney, N.S.W
A postcard featuring a colourised photograph of a beach scene with rocks in the foreground, a stone wall on the left hand side and buildings in the ba…
Ink, Paper
Coogee Beach, Coogee, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/212986
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