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1) The past two days have been occupied. Yesterday we both had things to deal with after returning home -- plants to be seen to, laundry to be done, mail to be answered, etc.

Aside from completing the roof repair in just a day, maintenance brought us a dehumidifier to run. The first one worked for a while but then started leaking on the floor. We were able to get someone from maintenance just before they left for the day, and after they looked at it they just brought us a new one. ( Read more... )

2) After watching the first half hour of Canada versus Bosnia ( Read more... )

As far as the US versus Paraguay goes, ( Read more... )

Switzerland vs Qatar was interesting to me mostly in how it would affect Canada. ( Read more... )

3) Earlier in the week I saw the Pixar film "Hoppers." I found it a mixed bag. ( Read more... )

1) We were taken mostly off guard when last night our building was hit by a tornado, part of a large damaging storm system than went through several states. From what we'd heard beforehand, the storm wouldn't be much different from many thunderstorms in recent months, although admittedly there had already been several near misses with tornadoes. But as an example, our tornado sirens went off 10 minutes later, after the worst had already passed us. (Other areas were yet to be hit, and the sirens are all linked).

We were warned by an alarming high wind gust, took the best shelter we have at our place (which is not great) and then heard two big bangs. Our local NPR station didn't interrupt the broadcast until five minutes after that and it was an automated NWS alert. By the time our local meteorologist came on, he said the storm was already through the city and on its way to smaller places east of us. Today he said that yesterday will go down as one of the most intense severe weather days he ever covered and he'd lost count of how many large, damaging tornadoes he saw. ( Read more... )

2) The World Cup is back! For readers that don't know, I'm not a sports watcher but the men's and women's Cups are an exception. Although I do enjoy seeing good soccer being played, this is largely a family tradition issue. I don't want to invest the time in following teams and championships, but as exhausting as the quantity of content is for the first few weeks, I can do it every few years.

Things kicked off with Mexico vs South Africa. ( Read more... )

South Korea vs Czechia ( Read more... )

3) Spotify removed thousands of podcasts promoting online prescription drug sales "Spotify told investigators that 94% of the phony podcasts had never been streamed and 99% had fewer than 10 streams, which the platform defines as listening sessions longer than 30 seconds. But a handful had been listened to more widely, including two totaling almost 13,000 streams that directed users to buy the prescription stimulant modafinil online, including with bitcoin."

1) When I came across this article about basketball players turned broadcasters, what it made me think of was a faceoff on The Floor where a former baseball player was up against a former WNBA player on the topic of basketball players.

It was really clear the baseball guy never watched the WNBA. He did get some of their players but missed too many and lost the match, whereas the female player did just as well with both sexes. I thought, for once, misogyny did a man in.

2) Another month, another rotten experience with healthcare providers. ( Read more... )

3) Being on Board Game Arena, I have not bought a physical game in some time. However while they have a great assortment of games, including well known ones, what they don't have is media content games. So when I saw this game on clearance at Wal Mart a while back, I decided to give it a try.



We finally broke open the box this past weekend. Right off the bat it seemed like a cute game full of Ted Lasso callbacks. ( Read more... )