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 The weather improves day by day. I took a little drive around town yesterday and noted again lots of speeders and rather frenzied driving on the part of what seemed to be 20 to 30 year old males. Don't people that age WORK anymore? They should have been on the job at that time of day, around 2 PM. It wasn't a holiday. Where the heck could they have been hurrying to? What were they even doing on the streets at that time? I sometimes have the feeling that I'm surrounded by pod people. Or perhaps it's a case of Attack of the Brain Eaters. You want to see a brain eater? Try Facebook. Or Twitter. Or maybe an iphone. The "i" is for idiot. Just my rather jaundiced and elitist opinion...

Math and science forever, man. Say, let's have a revolution! A SCIENTIFIC revolution!

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 Yes, yes, clear skies and plenty of sunshine on the way, with very little wind and temps will be back above freezing today. Time to thaw out a bit. Although it was 17 degrees F this morning, I was out before sunrise tending to the animals and it did not feel bad at all, unlike the last couple of days when wind chills were single digit. 

Over 860,000 Covid deaths in the US now. 

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 Well, it is another blast of winter today. It had to happen. How I hate winter. But today will be the worst of it and back above freezing tomorrow. 

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 Sunny this morning and well above freezing, with light winds. I hope the wintery forecast turns out to be a bust. 

As of this date, I've had no Covid symptoms at all, at any point, and had only a mild and brief cold over a year ago. Fully vaccinated with Moderna and I've had the Moderna booster. Also got a flu shot early on. Still wearing a mask when I'm among other people, when I don't have any way of knowing who is vaccinated and who is not, avoiding crowds (easy to do since I hate crowds anyway) and so on. Social distancing etc. So far so good, in other words. 

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 Of course, the PU isn't always a rotten place to be. Consider the sunflowers! Last evening I enjoyed the sight and sound of large flocks of Canadian geese. Very nice! I never ignore the beauty to be found in nature. But it's a dangerous place, too, and you have to remember that you are always walking a tightrope. I know some people like to challenge themselves by scaling sheer cliff faces with nothing but their hands and feet to keep them from falling. Sometimes you win a small victory. But the PU always gets you in the end. Always.