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Super Blue Moon
It is just laughable to see all the hype in the news about SUPER BLUE MOON. It is a stupid astrological concept. Perhaps if we knew how to count a proper month i.e. 28 days of lunar orbit around the Earth, there would be no silliness about 2 full moons in a month. As the moon moves around its elliptical orbit, it comes at its closest at some point in time and is at its farthest at another. The change in size is not even perceptible unless you are a moon researcher who is looking at the moon every day. How come we don’t celebrate tiny moon?
If we choose to focus on real issues such as climate change and how to counter it, that would be more useful than wasting time and energy on this SUPER BLUE MOON silliness.
Sorry for being a curmudgeon this morning.
I want to know if Hurricane Idalia is headed to Mar-a-lago or not. Then I’ll know if I should show support and root for people of florida or for the hurricane.
Calluses! They are called damned calluses. Wanted to text my brother that I have calluses from rowing but, my brain was stuck at scabs and scars. Couldn’t come up with the right word for more than 10 minutes. Getting old is no fun. This is only going to get worse.
While in North Carolina, what we had as daily low temps are now our daily high temps as we are back home. What a relief!!!
While going on this trip, we were thinking of considering NC as a possible retirement location. After one week the answer is a solid NO.
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Albert Camus
“Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park… It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself… That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
Argh! After last few days in North Carolina, it feels good to think that only one more month of Summer left before it is officially Fall. What a relief!
When you have 3-4 kids, it seems right to refer to the oldest and youngest of the flock. With only 2 kids, what is the correct way? Oldest and youngest or older and younger?
Another day of nice after ride coffee. I am going to miss this when I go back to riding in the area around my home.
Explored the lakeshore communities on today’s #bikeride - aka gawking at million dollar McMansions. Safer roads than yesterday. It was another hot day but wanted to get one more ride in. Will be busy with moving my son into his dorm and orientation & such for the rest of this trip.
Went on a longish bike ride on the northern side of Charlotte, NC. It was so hot that I forgot to take many photos. Kept hoping for more wooded roads like this but there was a lot of open farmland. Also roads with no shoulders and cars zooming by too close for comfort.
It is so nice to be in suburbs where I can get a decent cup of coffee when I decide to rest on the bike ride. There are many advantages of being in a rural area but coffee is nice.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
- Steve Jobs
Found Mark Twain outside Cornelius public library during my first ever bike ride in the state of North Carolina.
Went for a 1.5 mile walk after driving 750 miles through 8 states during the day.