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It's been a busy several days, and it will be a busier time until Thursday. Thanks to several friends for putting time aside to help me. If they were on BlueSky, I'd thank them by name.

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The fog is lifting in the neighborhood this morning.

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#CdAHistory I have been working on a relatively unsurprising translation step in my efforts with few surprises, but a lot of tedium to achieve accuracy. For the next few weeks, I am working on performance related stuff, and will return to the tedium in late August. I am energized!

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Here's a video with vintage view of Boston with an old popular song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy88...

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#CdATroupes I got sufficient information to start planning details for the show we're putting together in Finland. We'll be doing a show not seen in centuries, and it will be glorious. We'll know the name of the new troupe by July 8th. Performance is on the 11th.

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I saw some post comparing the temperatures of the Sun and the planets. It's worth noting that when we say temperature of these objects, we're talking about the temperature of the outermost layer that reflects or emits light. Those objects have lots of higher temperatures under that layer.

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Big rock outcropping by the side of the road in Clinton MA gets painted each year by a subset high school's graduating class. This year it is blue, and says "Hebrews 3:3". Not familiar with the verse, so I looked it up. Am I wrong to think it is hostile to a particular religious group?

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I've had a few tests and doctor visits recently. Turns out, when I was eight, I had an accident that shifted where my left knee cap kept itself, and now, many years later, I have finally worn through the cartilage that helps it move smoothly across the bottom of my femur. -- more --

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#CdAHistory I just updated a scenario where the original had five important characters without names i.e. The Prince, the Dame, the Old Man, the Necromancer, and a name for Isabella when she was disguised as a man. I gave them names to help the actors.

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20 years ago, I was living in Austin TX. The temp outside here right now is 10F cooler than the average daily high temperature that Summer (104F), but somehow it feels almost as hot. It's a good day to be doing indoor stuff.

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#CdAHistory Chiara and I just went through a play, in which something called for is that every performance needs a paper mache stone statue of one of the characters made with many strings of firecrackers so that it can burst in a glorious spectacle.

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I watched the press conference about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It takes many wide-field views of the sky to find as many short term phenomena as possible. It has a side effect of making beautiful detailed images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJf...

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Can you make out this top ten selling records from "A Clockwork Orange"? I can make out a few, like "Mass in G" by Gogol Gogol, and "?????? Play" by Johnny Zhivago. Maybe the list is on the web someplace, but I haven't seen it. I'm amused so far, and want the rest.

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Late this afternoon, I'll be at a dance recital called "Chasing Tomorrow!" up in the far Northeastern nugget of Massachusetts. The dancers will be pre-teens, and my expectations are set accordingly.

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Trying to learn some Finnish. I'm chatting with an AI about possible scenes for commedia dell'arte plays. Already mid-scene about Capitano advising Silvio about the eventual sadness of loving a naughty girl, I asked it (see replies):

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I watched the movie "Neighborhood Watch" starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was a low budget indie film, but works well as a buddy crime-solving movie with the main two characters having some serious personal obstacles to overcome.

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I finished listening to Jonathan Blitzer's book: "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis". It was very good. It gives a very personal look from many points of view about immigration from Central America.

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This is an amusing video that anthropomorphizes the socks in our drawers. www.youtube.com/shorts/DP0on...

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I was pursuing a health-improvement program for a few months, and about five weeks ago hit some issue with some osteoarthritis in my knee. I stopped, but I think I'm ready to resume. I'll see if I can go a few days and re-establish a pattern.

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Solution to the Housing crisis! www.youtube.com/watch?v=god3... Note: This is comedy, and points out issues with politics, but does NOT solve the housing crisis. The main video is 3 minutes, with some funny stuff mixed into the advertisement that follows. It's safe to skip the ad.

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I see the folks at SpaceX had some excitement in the dark hours of this morning.

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Two weeks from tomorrow, I fly to Scandinavia. (Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki). It will be a busy couple weeks prepping everything I need to do there, but it's that glorious kind of busy.

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Near the Cheese Factory in Mount Holly VT, I saw an odd structure in the woods.

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#CdAHistory We are about to go through a play about a siege of a city in which in the end a woman gets to be the leader of the city.

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We are visiting the tasting parlor for WhistlePig. Jon and I are the designated drivers.

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We don't wear our shoes indoors in the lodge.

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Hiked to a waterfall.

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The teenagers made dinner.

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Denise and I went to an ice cream place called The Mad Hatter and got Maple Creamies (soft serve maple ice cream). It was good.

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Not far from Killington, but the Spring snow is gone already.

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I'm out of town for a few days. Enjoying the Green Mountains with friends and neibghbors.

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If police come to your door, and you don't recognize them, immediately call 911 to report the incident. It won't stop a phony cop from killing you, but it will leave a record of the event. I'm hoping for some better advice, thanks.

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For several years there has been some talk about retiring the International Space Station. One of the original modules is leaking, and metal-fatigue is threatening to cause trouble on many parts of it. They might have to bring it down sometime this decade.

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We have a lonely potted hibiscus tree. It keeps blooming hoping to make a connection that will never come.

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Busy day today. Working on a bit for a commedia dell'arte show in August, and visiting my HMO for something a little unexpected. I'm trying to think about the former and not the latter.

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