Chris

Tonight I couldn’t see it, though in fairness I can’t see through binoculars anyway ( I have to take my glasses off, and then I’m blind ) but my Starwalk app picked up where it is: And as you can see it is spot on, due West. I think I looked too late, ( 7:15-7:30ish ) I’ll try again tomorrow, but earlier.

I rake them where needed, mostly under our two maples, but otherwise leave them where they fall. I chop them up with the mower and add them to the compost pile or gardens. This year I built a small leaf corral to store them for mulch for next year's garden.

It it, although I don't know what more they can do about it.

I think this is a good movement for a lot of reasons. The thing people have to remember though, is that locally raised farm product is going to cost more.

They might have one million and one subscribers if they'd lower the subscription cost.

The wife needed new shoes, and I could use some new ones myself. So we went to Consumer Square to grab a quick bite and get some. "Quick bite" is a joke, as the fast food place we went to was understaffed and overwhelmed. I overheard one of the 3-4 people there say the others had "no showed, no called" which didn't surprise me. So I don't blame the people there for the delay. I blame their useless ass co-workers that left them holding the bag. After that, we went to the Famou Shoes place. As we pulled in to that section, I noted how un-friendly that part of the plaza seemed. It's actually something I noticed when we were up there Monday as well, but I thought it may have been a one off. The lighting is poor, and it doesn't give off the impression that the stores are even open. Which, the show place wasn't. Well, it was, at least for another hour and ten minutes. But there was a sign on the door that read indicated someone would be there at 7pm. We'd had enough waiting around to give someone out moeny, whatever the reason, and instead went to the Mall. Driving there, I noticed that all along through there, the shopping plazas were poorly lit. Were it not for the lights on inside, Applebees' would have appeared otherwise closed. We arrived at the mall around 7. It's open until 8. Someone should tell a whole lot of the stores inside that, because the gates were down and locked an hour before closing. Which is too bad, there was one or two little specialty places that looked interesting. Would have been nice to have a look around inside. As for the shoe store, there may as well have been a self-serve kiosk as helpful as the employees were. Other than the "Welcome to ____" they didn't acknowledge our presence until we made it up to the register. ( On a side note, once again I found shoes I liked but they didn't have my size, or had all "wide" sizes. I took pictures and will order them online from Amazon. ) So my peeve with all of this is, in a month or so we're going to hear "shop local" or how major retail stores are suffering lower sales, even during the holidays. And you wanna know something? It's their own damned fault. Because frankly, sititng here at my desk is a more pleasant shopping experience anymore.

Sure, but there's more to it. I just heard on NPR that someone in Kentucky was copying and pasting parts of the lawsuit and discovered that the redacted parts suddenly showed up. What they found is pretty damning: Internal memos revealed the company knew TikTok users can become ‘addicted’ in 35 minutes The time-limit tool TikTok implemented was aimed at ‘improving public trust,’ not limiting app use TikTok demoted the accounts of people it deemed unattractive on its feed And a whole lot more. Read more of the NPR report here.

Hopefully its a nice, clear sky Saturday!

Whoa!

I'm not against it, at least not yet. What's interesting to me is how, every time one of these places comes up in conversation, people instantly associate them with human trafficking. I've been to a few of these places in my travels and I've never seen the place crawling with "lot lizards" or any sketchy behaviors. They're usually pretty well lit and busy enough to deter criminal activity. If there were anyplace I'd expect sketchy stuff to happen, it'd be in the far section of the Dandy lot or that truck lot over on Water Street.

He's been reported to be lip synching for years. Opie and Anthony talked about this over ten years ago, after Anthony went to one of the shows. He said you could see Valli switching his mic on and off depending on if he was speaking or "singing." Here's a collection of videos that has people concerned: I've long wondered how much Valli still owes the mafia. Which could be one reason he's out there.

Stay on topic everyone.

Then they have the right to figure out a way to pay for them. All that "free" money you think we should be giving away comes from somewhere, and a lot of us are tired of paying for it.