so, not much is being said about the drought here in the great lakes. but it's kicking my butt.
last year i got all of 6" of rain. this year i've gotten maybe 3". my starts are getting baked.

i've noticed a pattern, which may be an old pattern i just never noticed-
i am close to the southern tip of lake michigan, on the ne corner of chicago.

in the last few years i have watched storm after storm hit the lake air mass, split apart and slide south. i end up w zip, while western burbs get drenched.
seems to take a very large storm to hold together to cross the lake. i notice that w michigan is also in a drought. lake effect storms seem rare.

i cop that this could be perception bias. i didnt care much til i started this farm 9 yrs ago.

any thoughts?

it became very clear very quickly that if we were going to mandate masks, someone had to enforce that.
making retail workers and rent-a-cops do it was going to get people killed.

i was SOOOOO disturbed to find out how many people didnt care if i died. not strangers. neighbors i had known for 20 yrs.
you can make people give a shit, and clearly way too many didnt.

all these stories about whose phones are being surveilled.
and the big question is- was anyone actually listening?
you can bet at least vm's were listened to.

cuz if old rupert could listen to the royals, anything is possible.
and when he got caught, what happened? not.a.fucking.thing.

these people all sleep in the same bed.

i sorta have to every once in a while just to see if the neighborhood rumor mill has bled into the intertooobz.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7717064/

we, your customers, dont want to do your supervision for you, or your market research.
but what we would like to do, is choose those employees who do a good job.

i can scorch an instacart shopper, but i cant ask for the wonderful shopper i had last week.

fix this.

give sr1 an up or down vote.
and stop abusing the privilege.

that's it.
grow up. do your job.
eat your peas.

it could happen before that, when he has his day in court his lawyers would be remiss if they didnt bring up diminished capacity.
we need an answer to the question-is he nuts? does he have dementia? is he brain damaged from all the drugs?

mental capacity is a fraught topic but an important one.
we need to get into this century, and sharpen our laws because there are all kinds of brain conditions that impair judgement besides axis 1 mental illnesses.

we know he flunked 2 dementia screens and lord knows what else is in his medical records at reed.
if his upcoming trials focus on his mental capacity, and the truth about his health, instead of his criminal liability, i might be satisfied w that.
imho, it has been the elephant in the room for the last 5 yrs, and it is a conversation this country needs to have.

couldnt figure how to link to the video here.
click through. 3 min of wow.

https://news.wttw.com/2021/06/02/landscape-made-light-and-glass-joins-permanent-collection-art-institute?fbclid=IwAR3QG0rlDaigsA_ZCVczQlzH8XN2pylZQi49T8uzGkO5efF0x0Nz6pqBgxc

full disclosure- i am an alum of the school of the art institute.

no man's land, aka the green fields of france.

cliffordu lost his battle w als on feb 10 of this year.

i got close to cliff on fb a few years ago, and we were planning how to get together when he started getting sick.
i posted a few threads here about his dx, and his battle at the time.

i did get to meet him in the brief period when he was living an apt w a caregiver, but he soon returned to the va hospital in portland.
he got married while there, and his wife louise was at his side every day thereafter.
i think she was a sweetheart from his past but i never did find out.

als has been determined to be a service related disability, so he was able to get good care.

he was an amazing person, poet, musician and friend.
he was also a handsome devil.
i miss him and think of him often, but esp today.