{"id":630,"date":"2016-02-02T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/?p=630"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:16:48","slug":"ground-hog-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/2016\/02\/02\/ground-hog-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Hog Day – 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 — -6\u02daC \/ +21\u02daF — Sunny & bright, clear, and colder than yesterday in Atlantic Canada @ 9:11 am — Birthdays today: Close Friend Lisa and Cousin Lyn in Connecticut \ud83d\ude42 & I think our friend Angie ( n\u00e9e Shean ) up here has a birthday too – \ud83d\ude42 —<\/em><\/p>\n

\""Icebergs"\"

I don’t know if this will be readable – but a friend impressed me by doing this on an obsolete computer with an obsolete operating system and an obsolete photo program.<\/p><\/div>\n

— Draelen Shantivarta ( ‘Somewhere out west’ -) managed to download a screen shot from the game that several of us are still working on, and, using a G5 Mac running OS X 10.4-something which supports OS 9 “Classic”, where he used Photo Deluxe, a program from the early 90’s, to import, trim, and write every line ( one at a time ) then drag and resize the text (one line at a time). & to tell ya the truth, the screen shot looks like icebergs are floating close to shore somewhere.<\/p>\n

\"Bernie

Barbara Walters interviewing Bernie Sanders before anybody had any idea that he could do so well in Iowa<\/p><\/div>\n

— A lot of people were buzzing this morning about how well Bernie Sanders did in the Iowa Caucus yesterday. He started out polling in single digits and ended up in a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton, who is backed by big money and a powerful political machine.<\/p>\n

\"Caucus

Hillary received 49.9% of the Democratic Votes tallied in yesterday’s Iowa Caucuses, Bernie received 49.5%? That should scare a lot of the wrong people. And six of the delegates were awarded by a coin toss?<\/p><\/div>\n

— Hillary’s supporters were tweeting up a storm yesterday while Bernie had Michael Moore and a handful of activist celebrities ( including Susan Sarandon ( “Dammit – Janet!” ) and Wil Wheaton? – ( Wesley from Star Trek Next Generation? ) Plus a lot of dedicated grass-roots people. Exit polls cited by the BBC said 84-91% of voters under 30 years old voted for ‘The Bern’<\/p>\n

\"California

– This is in California? Wow –<\/p><\/div>\n

— & As for me, I think I’d like to be in a nice warm place like the photo above right now. The person who tweeted it said, “California”? Must be upstate, north of San Francisco?<\/p>\n

\"Water

– And I have no idea where this is, but I do believe I could live there and love it. –<\/p><\/div>\n

— Looks like the inspiration for the Elven City of Rivendel, as portrayed in The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Movies.<\/p>\n

\"Bridge

– And this is another beautiful, intriguing place that I think I’d like to at least visit –<\/p><\/div>\n

— I think my friend, Draelen, knows more about where this photographer\/Tweeter is from, I think he told me she’s from Germany – But wow – what a beautiful world we live in. I think somebody tweeted a photo of Leonard Nimoy as Spock with a quote that went something like, [ understatement alert ] “Anybody who would destroy their home planet – is illogical.”<\/p>\n

— I spent yesterday doing carpentry stuff, reinforcing the wobbly legs to a computer desk, and then brought an overheating iMac back from its most recent ‘near-death-experience’, caught up with a couple of friends on effbook and twitter, and watched ‘Supergirl’ and ‘X-Files’ before making sure computers were still okay and hadn’t blown up yet and forgot to take one of my medications. ( And No – I’m not one of the people doug otterson cited as needing to self medicate after seeing the photograph of an upright black cat playing a guitar – \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

— And – I’m still wracking my brains over how to handle difficult passages in a novel that I’m trying to finish.<\/p>\n

— Happy Ground Hog Day!<\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 — -6\u02daC \/ +21\u02daF — Sunny & bright, clear, and colder than yesterday in Atlantic Canada @ 9:11 am — Birthdays today: Close Friend Lisa and Cousin Lyn in Connecticut \ud83d\ude42 & I think our friend Angie ( n\u00e9e Shean ) up here has a birthday…<\/p>\n

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