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I hadn't realized that the Daily came into being after, not before, my first HAL cruise in January 2020 -- but now I understand that I was conflating it with the fleet report, which already existed. I think that rotisserie chicken needs to be made in a rotisserie, not some other kitchen appliance. Maybe I will write a cookbook with recipes like Mixmaster rotisserie chicken or air-fryer mayonnaise. Just thinking about the cocktail makes my head ache. Pleased to see a cardboardeaux even though it's not my favorite brand. Not much Finger Lakes wine makes its way into boxes, and the boxed reds are all sweet. Nevertheless, I would have liked so-called rotisserie chicken tonight. What I actually had was roasted Brussels sprouts, made yesterday; hard-boiled eggs, the last in the carton; and chickpea pasta, which I won't buy again. I was going to post the Okeedokee Corrall cartoon, but got skunked. Today when I was making the cloud observation, the neighbor's dogs came over and barked loudly and for a long time (through a fence). They're very excitable but they ought to recognize me by now.

Internet was good every time I used it on the Oosterdam in November, even in the middle of the Atlantic -- and I needed it for classes on Zoom. My cabin was midship. I've found wifi to be very poor in cabins on other ships that were all the way forward or all the way aft.

If anyone is concerned, the feast of St. Patricia is August 25.

Pass on the menu suggestion but would try the drink. There is nothing Chianti-like grown in the Finger Lakes, so I'll suggest the 2020 Teroldego from Red Tail Ridge. I filed my income tax returns this morning. I had done the preparation a month ago, but I've learned not to file in February: every time I've done that, I've received a corrected document soon after. This year it wasn't a corrected document, but a missing one. Well, not actually missing, but not on the company's website when I checked on the morning of February 15, which was the deadline for it. It could have been posted later the same day. I also made a projection for 2024, using the 2023 software. I'm just in from taking a cloud observation for NASA's Globe Observer project. They are particularly interested in having them from now until after the eclipse, which will be 98% total here (but there is a 74% chance of cloud cover, according to the weather records). The project will accept observations taken at any time of the day, but especially wants reports from the times when a weather satellite was overhead, which today was at 12:07 p.m. There will be another one this afternoon, at a time that isn't convenient for me. I received notices from the main library and from a restaurant that they were closed because of a transformer explosion downtown. A television station in the affected area reported that it was caused by a squirrel.

I asked a nursing assistant why she drew blood at 4:00 a.m. She said she didn't wake anyone then, but patients on pain medication often wake up around then and so a nurse checked to see if they needed more. She followed the nurse, and if a patient was awake, she drew the blood while the nurse brought the medication. The reason was that blood draws needed to go to the lab by 7:00, and so if she was able to get the blood while the patient was awake at 4:00 or so, she wouldn't have to wake the patient at 6:00.

Report from the checkout line: People is having another go at the troubles of the Royal family, and according to the Star, Tom Cruise has been dumped by someone or other and declared "undatable." None of this matches up to the greeting card I received years ago, imitating one of the tabloids with "Aliens land, reveal amazing 7-day diet plan!"

Like any normal person, I fill my stapler when I notice that it's empty, not on an arbitrary day. I like bran muffins and wish that I had one now. I would probably like the drink. As already noted, Pinot Noir is a temperamental grape, even more so here, but most of the wineries produce it. For one that I haven't mentioned before, Ravines 2020. I had a hard time getting to sleep last night after teaching Job and Jonah, and this morning I seemed to ache all over. Nevertheless, I went to the nature center to do one of my class assignments, since it was 71° and mostly sunny. This was #3 of the 10 experiences in nature required by April 28. I had hoped with the temperature and sun that I might see a timber rattler, but if they were out they were avoiding me. All the trails were muddy, and the main trail, which connects the others, was extremely muddy. The small pond is used for teaching aquatic biology. There's a bigger pond where there were Canada geese today. The main trail is named for Mark Twain. His wife was from here and they spent many summers here; they're also buried here, in her family's plot. This is the beginning of what's officially called the President's Trail, but most people would call the Ernie Davis Trail, because it has placards about his life, each of which also recommends an outdoor exercise (like a parcours, but without fixtures). He grew up here and, as a player for Syracuse, was the first Black athlete to win the Heisman Trophy. He died before playing professionally. The trail rejoins the Twain trail at the treehouse. I still need to go to a grocery store.

One year, before Yom Kippur, I asked a rabbi whether I was required to forgive people who didn't want to be forgiven. She said it wasn't, but might be good for my mental health. "Move on" is an essential component, though. Sometimes it's best not to bear a grudge, but also not to get involved with them again.

I've only had forward-facing oceanview cabins (on some other ships) but I'll mention one thing that may or may not matter to you: in cabins all the way forward, or all the way aft, wi-fi tends to be weak and spotty.

Riverbank path (attributed to Native Americans) in my town park, and view across the river.

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No pork anything, please, not even zuppified. Skip the drink. I have a New Zealand SB, not that one, open now. For a Finger Lakes SB that I haven't mentioned before, Bravery Wines 2771 Series. The forecast is for intermittent s-n-o-w today. Mona Lisa woke me at 5:50 a.m., apparently because she wanted company.

Amerigo Vespucci Day--there's a typeface called Amerigo, designed by Gerard Unger and released by Bitstream. I suppose I could make chicken stroganoff with tofu sour cream. I'd skip the drink--too complicated--even if it were called something else. Two of the three grapes in today's wine aren't grown in the Finger Lakes--southern Oregon is hotter and dryer--so for a Syrah blend I might turn to The Element 2018 Can't Stop/Won't Stop, a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, and Syrah. (The name alludes to a cease-and-desist order they received on the blend's former name.) GARDEN CLUB: Réunion Island receive its name from France, which claimed it in the 17th century, but France originally called it the Île Bourbon. In the Napoleonic period it was called the Île Bonaparte, and received its current name only in 1848. Bourbon roses originated there. Vita Sackville-West put it this way: The inhabitants of this small island had the pleasing habit of using roses for their hedges: only two kinds, the Damask rose and the China rose. These two married in secret; and one day, in 1817, the curator of the botanic garden on the Île Bourbon noticed a seedling he transplanted and grew on, a solitary little bastard which has fathered or mothered the whole race we now call the Bourbon roses. From the Damask rose line they have fragrance, and the China rose ancestry makes them repeat-flowering. Most are hardier than China rose ancestry would lead one to expect, and can be grown in zone 5.

Also: International Women's Day

The first of today's special days reminds me of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who is quoted as saying "If you can't say anything nice about anyone, come sit next to me." My middle name is a family name, my maternal grandfather's surname. I've been told that I resemble him mentally, which is no compliment. Nothing against peanut clusters but they're not my favorite. The soup would be OK. I would probably like the drink, once. Cabernet Franc is one of the best grapes in the Finger Lakes, very like the same variety from the Loire, which nothing in California can approximate. I'll nominate Vineyard View Winery 2020. The Department of Environmental Conservation is warning hikers to avoid higher elevations in the Adirondacks for now. Several experienced winter hikers have had to be rescued because the ice is thinner and more slippery than in colder weather. Nothing down where I live is that high.

I know that, but I didn't want to post just ordering from Mexico without checking. Staying out of further medical discussions.

Please don't go without a medication that's essential. If your doctor can't come up with another that would work, here are some ways to reduce the cost (I wish they lowered it more): Manufacturer's coupon that dovetails with insurance (not sure it works without insurance) GoodRx. It is possible to order prescription drugs from Mexico. The US government will tell you that it's dangerous, but it's legal for a drug that is approved here. I have done this during a gap in insurance.

Yes. Before trying to set a new password, I checked another device that should have been logged in, and it had also been signed out. So I think that Spacehook's login system is broken.

Absinthe was our DOTD on January 28 If the chicken dish contains ranch dressing, or tastes like it, I will pass. I'd like the drink. No Rioja in the FL so I'll go with Glenora's Cabernet Sauvignon 2021. Dentist at 12:00 and teaching Ezra, Nehemiah, and Ruth at 7:30.

If you owe something to the public library (in Worcester, Mass.) there is new value in your cat photos. The Worcester Public Library in Massachusetts announced that people who have lost or damaged a book can bring a picture of a cat this month to one of its branches and get their library cards reactivated. The program, which it calls March Meowness, has generated hundreds of returns in just a few days. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/massachusetts-library-fines-cat-picture.html?smid=em-share

I've seen other reports about this in airplane lavatories.

Hula Hoe may have been a brand name. A trademark for Hula Ho (no e) was filed in 1959 but cancelled in 2001. Similar hoes are still on the market under both names. Lee Valley Hardware describes the no-e version: "In production for over 60 years, this oscillating hoe is an outstanding cultivating tool that runs just below the soil surface to slice weeds off at the root. It gets its unusual name from the slight wiggle in the blade – as you push it back and forth, the double-edged forged steel blade automatically sets itself at the correct cutting angle in each direction, so the backward stroke is just as effective as the forward stroke."

I would call it a scuffle hoe, but the more common generic term in the trade is stirrup hoe.

The topics for my course this week are local watersheds, and Native American practices. It was 68° and sunny, and I chose to combine them by doing some of the reading, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, on the riverbank. The path in the first picture was created by the feet of the Seneca people before European settlement. It extends for several miles but only this section receives much use (some is on private property). View downriver Swing installed recently by the River Friends View from the swing

I looked up Courageous Follower Day: Courageous Follower Day is observed on March 4 every year to shed light on the virtue of followership. Brought into order after Ira Chaleff’s groundbreaking book on leadership, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders, the holiday encourages all of us to become responsible followers. The book has become a source of debate about the multifaceted aspects of leadership since its publication in 1995. A learned and organized follower is an asset to any leader. On Courageous Follower Day, we ditch the idea of rugged individualism and propagate the ethos of genuine followership. I like sweet potato fries well enough but like Roy I prefer ordinary ones. Pass on the cocktail, but I have Cocchi Americano on hand. There are just a couple of aperitif or aromatized wines from the Finger Lakes: L‘Moné, made at a winery on Keuka Lake and flavored with Meyer lemon, and Génépi, aromatized with flowers from the French Alps; it's made with Finger Lakes wine but the final production takes place in Brooklyn.