Let’s play two! The Cubs have a COVID-19 double header today with the Cardinals in Wrigley. Rookie pitcher going in the first game.
About last night
A team of scientists hunting dark matter has recorded suspicious pings coming from a vat of liquid xenon underneath a mountain in Italy. They are not claiming to have discovered dark matter — or anything, for that matter — yet.
Last year, on this date, Google released Android 10. If they follow the same schedule, that might mean Android 11 will be released next week, after Labor Day. I’ve also read reports that the Pixe 5 and Pixel 4a 5G will release on September 30 and it would make sense to me they launch with Android 11.
“Joy,” as the Archbishop said during the week, “is much bigger than happiness. While happiness is often seen as being dependent on external circumstances, joy is not.”
Desmond Tutu The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Last year at this time the Chicago Cubs had no batter hitting .300 or higher, this year they have one, with another hitting .299. Slight improvement, but no real change and not surprising given the line up is the same. The problem stands, the Cubs have a lineup of sluggers not hitters and that will not get it done in the playoffs.
Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum is a wonderful museum/arcade of all sorts of vintage games, and like many small businesses is hit hard by COVID-19. It still cannot open due restrictions posed by the State of Michigan. You can help this small business stay afloat by contributing on this GoFundMe
Finished reading: Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible by Peter Enns, Jared Byas 📚
Currently reading: Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs: The Simple Truth About Food, Weight, and Disease by David Kessler 📚
Currently reading: The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Church History: Flaming Heretics and Heavy Drinkers by Bill Leonard, Tripp Fuller 📚
Cooler temps with 🌞, in other words, pleasant weather.
“Just remember this: no one can keep you from the second half of your own life except yourself. Nothing can inhibit your second journey except your own lack of courage, patience, and imagination. Your second journey is all yours to walk or to avoid. My conviction is that some falling apart of the first journey is necessary for this to happen, so do not waste a moment of time lamenting poor parenting, lost job, failed relationship, physical handicap, gender identity, economic poverty, or even the tragedy of any kind of abuse. Pain is part of the deal. If you don’t walk into the second half of your own life, it is you who do not want it. God will always give you exactly what you truly want and desire. So make sure you desire, desire deeply, desire yourself, desire God, desire everything good, true, and beautiful.”
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
It seems as though the weather in southeast Michigan the last two days has been influenced by Hurricane Laura. Yesterday’s storms have given way to 17 mph wind gusts and 73 degree temps. Not bad sitting outside by feels too cool on occasion.
Dear Google, You do a wonderful job of making it easy to move from one Android phone to another but moving a Wear OS watch along with that phone is horrible. Please bring back the ability to install and manage apps from the phone. I should not have to factory reset and reinstall all watch apps just to move to another phone.
Taken with the Pixel 4a
Smartphones are much more useful when they can connect to the mobile network.
Here is the thing…we think liberty is about our government, but on its own it says nothing about what one does with that liberty. Some will claim it makes them free to do whatever they want, while others will say it makes us free to make the best society for everyone.
The headline is NOT that Putin basically ran the 2016 Trump campaign, the headline is that people know this AND THEY DON"T CARE!
They = the United States Senate but many Republican voters too.
The House plainly made the case for impeachment and the Senators had the evidence AND STILL did not care enough to impeach.
They are ok with an authoritarian as President so long as that person is in their party. Funny how much they complained about Obama’s executive actions, but have no problem with Trump doing the same thing, and more.
The consequences? 176,991 American’s dead on U.S. soil.
What we are currently dealing with is the struggle between what we want and what is.