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Indy 500
What an incredible Indy 500 today! It was rain delayed a few hours but they got it done before deadline and along the way it was one of the most intense nail-biting races I’ve seen in years. Maybe it wasn’t really any better than previous races and my impression was just the result of a culmination of unrelated things in my life (or lack thereof). I think it was the race, though. The announcers were hootin’ and hollerin’, especially during the last 20 laps. Also, I think it’s the first time I ever saw a second-place driver so emotionally crushed that he actually broke down in tears, for quite a spell, on camera. I could understand. It was intense for me, too, and I only spent the race settin’ in my armchair watchin’ it on the TV, not jockeying at 215 m.p.h. at close quarters with a dozen other racers hell-bent on beating me.
I have more important and meaningful things to write about, including some pictures, but I don’t have enough time. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to post something, and a blurb about Indy is the only thing I can squeeze out of the little block of time available at the moment. Hopefully, before it gets to be several more months of nothing, I’ll get something more important and meaningful posted, including pictures.
Dave IS Here
It was recently feared that Dave’s cat, Chessie, had landed badly from a jump in Fremont and suffered a broken a leg. Thankfully, veterinary examination diagnosed only a bad sprain and/or partial dislocation of a carpal joint.
They say a cat embodies the ethos of the human, if any, with whom it harbored a metaphysical bond at the time of the human’s death. It’s hypothesized that primordial yet uniquely individual elements of a decedent’s ectoplasm that devolve at the moment of death are osmosed (a process reported in scientific journals as ectoplasmosis) by the metaphysically bonded cat via an as yet unidentified gland unique to felines. They actually have several as yet unidentified unique glands as well as several identified glands whose function is as yet unidentified. They’re a mystery, you know, especially the small ones (referring to the cats, not the glands) like house cats.
The point being that, contrary to the famous retort of Tommy Chong, Dave IS here! And we are greatly relieved that he didn’t break a leg.
Cold Enough to Freeze the…
February 20, 2025
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John Chappell
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2024 and New Year and Valentines Day 2025 have come and gone. We’ve been sick here in Kansas since a week or two into January. Not just the old rhinovirus (bad cold) but that godawful Norovirus and then type A flu although I avoided the flu so far but suspect rhinovirus has taken hold. I’m hitting it with lots of echinacea and zinc and we’ll see how it goes. I have a physical therapy session scheduled for Friday. It was prescribed ostensibly for lower back pain, but it’s actually bursitis in the right hip/leg. And then there’s the weather. We had a blizzard a couple weeks ago with near zero temps, and this week it’s snow again but less of it, but colder, not just near zero but below zero. As I’m writing this the device on my wrist says the temp is -2 with “feels like” of -13. Just going out to check the mailbox (empty!) was enough to numb my fingers, wearing gloves. Supposed to be colder tomorrow and Friday. Which reminds me… In answer to the question, “How cold was it?” our friends at GasKan explain the source of the answer, “It was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!” I’m afraid I have no pictures of brass monkeys, but may have some depicting examples of our new year so far. If I have the time and/or the energy, I’ll add a couple of them here, but I don’t have at the moment. For now, g’night, and watch out for them brass monkeys!