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We’re home safe and sound. I drove up and checked the house around 11:00 AM this morning. Power was on – I don’t think it ever went out. And no damage to the house at all. So I went back to my brother’s, loaded everything into the car, got the girls in, and we’re now home chilling.

A huge thank you to my younger brother, sister in law, my nephews, and their German shepherd for providing a port in the storm!

I checked with BettyC this AM when I got up and she said:

Everyone okay but it got pretty bad here. Some structural damage. No sleep for 48 hours. Kinda trapped with no gas, no power, etc. But we’ll be okay. Got food, water, our health!

This is at the place they evacuated too. So the good news is they’re all okay. I can tell you that they’re working both hard and fast to get power back on. So hopefully they’ll be back on the grid shortly.

I’m gonna get cleaned up, eat, and crash.

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  2. 2.

    TenguPhule

    I’m gonna get cleaned up, eat, and crash.

    And not necessarily in that order! //

    One a more serious note, welcome back and glad you made it through without any hitches.

    And hopefully Betty gets nothing more then a few horror stories about farting dogs and nervous chickens out of this.

  3. 3.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    Great to hear that you and Betty are safe. What was the storm like where you evaced to?

  5. 5.

    TenguPhule

    Oh no, Here we go again.

    The Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court to intervene quickly so that officials could broadly enforce Trump’s travel ban and block even refugees with formal assurances from a resettlement agency from entering the United States.

    The filing by Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall demonstrates the lengths to which the government is willing to go to impose its desired version of the ban, even before the Supreme Court takes up in earnest next month whether the measure is lawful at its core.

  6. 6.

    Felonius Monk

    Glad to hear you are in good shape, Adam. Also happy to hear Betty C. & Company are okay.

    My SIL in Boca checked in via email yesterday afternoon. They came through pretty well, although no power.

    Stay safe everyone.

  7. 7.

    Jeffro

    Welcome back, Adam – glad you and Betty are safe!

    On the open thread front: 9/11 Brought America Together: When Did We Rip Back Apart?

    Hey at least Bump did his homework and figured it out correctly: it was right when Dumbya used 9/11 to gin up support for an unnecessary war that cost us several thousand lives and $2T. That, and W’s buddy Rove deciding the best way to bring Americans together was to run a “50% + 1” campaign (complete with fucking purple heart band-aids). And then the banksters getting away with economic murder. And the birthers, and the Tea Party, and the depths of right-wing insanity that have plagued us ever since.

  9. 9.

    HRA

    Very glad you are all safe. My relatives in Stuart and Orlando checked in this am with good news, too. I am waiting for those in the Tampa area to check in now.

  10. 10.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Glad to hear that you, Betty, and respective family members – human and critter – are safe and well!

  11. 11.

    Patricia Kayden

    @TenguPhule: Trump and his sycophants have no reason to pivot so this is not surprising. I’m hoping that the Supreme Court doesn’t bend an inch on this issue.

  15. 15.

    Manyakitty

    @HRA: My parents live in the Westchase area of Tampa and they are in good shape, with no injuries or property damage, thank FSM!

  18. 18.

    boatboy_srq

    @TenguPhule:

    even refugees with formal assurances from a resettlement agency

    Anything to keep Teh Blah and Teh Brown from our white, white wimminvolk and our jerbs.

  19. 19.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @TenguPhule:

    Responding to an emergency request from the Justice Department, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy stopped the appeals court ruling that allowed refugees with a formal assurance to enter the U.S.

    Why the fuck did Injustice Kennedy do that?

  21. 21.

    HeleninEire

    Good, good news. Happy for all the BJ’erz in FL who are safe. Its not over yet so everyone keep checking in. Y’all know that Rush is gonna come back from his bug out place and say “See, told ya”

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:

    Kennedy, who handles cases on an emergency basis from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, ordered those suing over the ban to respond by Tuesday at noon, and indicated that the appeals court ruling in their favor would be stayed “pending receipt” of their response.

    Sorry, story just updated.

  23. 23.

    TenguPhule

    Some deadlines for reports have also seemingly passed. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary was — within 20 days of the order taking effect — supposed to have given Trump the results of a worldwide review determining what information was necessary from other countries’ to vet travelers.

    The countries that weren’t supplying adequate information were then to be given 50 days to begin doing so, and after that, top U.S. officials were to give Trump a list of countries recommended for inclusion on a more permanent travel ban. Spokesmen for the State Department, Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security did not immediately provide answers to a list of questions about what action had been taken on those steps.

    @Goku: I have no idea what Kennedy is thinking at this point. The whole thing is a dog’s breakfast at this point.

  26. 26.

    james parente

    We did OK here in Bradenton. Irma’s Eye passed East of us and placed us on the “weak” side of the storm. We didn’t lose power for any more than 10 minutes. I feel eternally grateful to a weakening storm and steering high pressure masses.

  27. 27.

    Shell

    We once lost power for five days. Its a lot like camping…except when you go camping and decide you hate it, you can always go home.

  28. 28.

    Gozer

    Glad to hear you and Betty are OK.

    My folks evacuated to NOLA. Luckily they only lost some screens over their pool. No serious damage, just some debris.

    Back to lurking…

  30. 30.

    JMG

    My cousin in Ponte Vedra Beach checked in. No power, but no flooding despite lots of rain. Her development is on west side of A1A so storm surge not an issue. She didn’t mention tree or property damage, so I assume it was minor if any.

  31. 31.

    Roger Moore

    @TenguPhule:
    The whole thing is especially crazy because the nominal justification for the ban was to give the government temporary breathing room to come up with a new policy. As far as I can tell, they’ve done nothing to come up with a new policy even though the original term of the travel ban is already past. I’m going to predict that they’ll let the ban expire, claim that the case before the Supreme Court is now moot because the ban has expired, and then either propose a new “temporary” ban and force the thing back into court again or just keep on acting as if the ban is in place even though it’s expired. Whatever the technical details, their goal will be to continue with the ban while doing everything they can think of to tie up court cases against it in procedural bullshit.

  33. 33.

    TenguPhule

    @Roger Moore:

    I’m going to predict that they’ll let the ban expire, claim that the case before the Supreme Court is now moot because the ban has expired, and then either propose a new “temporary” ban and force the thing back into court again or just keep on acting as if the ban is in place even though it’s expired. Whatever the technical details, their goal will be to continue with the ban while doing everything they can think of to tie up court cases against it in procedural bullshit.

    I think you’re right.

  34. 34.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @TenguPhule:
    Kennedy, at least my impression of him that is, is a squish. He should have told Attorney General Nathan Bedford Forrest to fuck off with his stupid, bigoted, and likely unconstitutional plea. At least the executive branch departments are slow walking some of this shit.

    It’s still bad because they’re disobeying the POTUS, but it’s the least had option at this point.

  35. 35.

    chris

    Glad to hear everyone is safe. That was a very tense week.

    I went out today and bought a few survival items to add to the store I keep at all times. I know it’s too soon to be sure but windy.com is showing Jose on the coast of Nova Scotia by Wednesday the 20th. Too close to my doorstep for comfort.

    Since it’s an OT, shit was still happening elsewhere. Bastards!

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Glad to hear everyone is safe and (relatively) dry. I was out for half an hour (northern suburbs of Atlanta) and it’s raining and wind blowing like a sumbitch. So glad to be back inside!

    @JPL:

    Hope you get power back soon!

  41. 41.

    Brachiator

    Adam, good to hear that you and BettyC are all okay.

    I have relatives in Tampa who, fortunately, did not get hit hard.

    And a coworker who went to Disney world. He may not be able to start home until Wednesday.

  42. 42.

    Yutsano

    @chris:

    windy.com is showing Jose on the coast of Nova Scotia by Wednesday the 20th.

    Oh snap. Better keep RedKitteh in communication.

    @TenguPhule: Looks like Bannon’s interview got under Dolt45’s skin. Good. Let his thrash about his ego.

  43. 43.

    CaseyL

    So happy to see all of our FL peeps are safe and sound, and here’s hoping Betty’s place is all or mostly fine when she returns home. Still want photos of the Great Chicken Roundup.

    My Mom (Pompano Beach) and friend (Coconut Grove) are OK, too, though without power.

  44. 44.

    TenguPhule

    Fox and Friends actually went there on today of all days.

    On Monday, the 16th anniversary of 9/11, a Fox News commentator wondered if a memorial for victims of the terrorist attack might eventually meet the same fate as statues depicting Confederate generals.
    In an interview with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade alluded to a memorial for passengers of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where Zinke was slated to speak.

    “Do you worry that 100 years from now someone is going to take that memorial down like they are trying remake our memorials today?” Kilmeade asked, referring to the recent controversies that have led to the removal of statues for Confederate military leaders like Robert E. Lee.

    “I’m one that believes we should learn from history and I think our monuments are part of our country’s history,” Zinke replied. “We can learn from it. Since we don’t put up statues of Jesus, everyone is going to fall morally short. And I think reflecting on our history, both good and bad, is a powerful statement and part of our DNA. So I’m an advocate of, again, learning from our monuments, understanding the period they were made. But also, we live in a great country and monuments are not Republican, Democrat, independent. The monuments are a tribute to all of us.”

    Soulless bastards.

  46. 46.

    Mary G

    Glad to hear you and yours are well and have power, Adam. Betty may have lost some stuff, but stuff can be replaced. People and pets can’t be.

  47. 47.

    TenguPhule

    Hey Adam, when you’re awake and coherent, can you give us the skivvy on how the hell this happened.

    US Navy ships in deadly collisions had dismal training records

    (CNN)The two US Navy destroyers involved in deadly collisions in the Pacific this summer both had lengthy records of failure to fulfill key training requirements, according to Government Accountability Office data provided to Congress and obtained by CNN.

    The USS Fitzgerald had expired training certification for 10 out of 10 key warfare mission areas in June, and the USS John S. McCain had let its certifications lapse in six out of the 10 mission areas, the data show.
    The dismal training record for the two ships sheds new light on one factor that may have contributed to the two collisions with commercial ships in June and August, which killed 17 sailors.

    The training records of the McCain and Fitzgerald were worse than the average warship in the Pacific, but they weren’t the only ones with training problems. GAO testimony released last week revealed that expired training certifications for the Navy’s 11 cruisers and destroyers based in Japan had skyrocketed five-fold from 7% in January 2015 to 37% in June. Two-thirds of the certifications had been expired for at least five months.

    Nobody caught on till now?

  49. 49.

    boatboy_srq

    @TenguPhule:

    Since we don’t put up statues of Jesus, everyone is going to fall morally short.

    OMEFFSM, really? So, it’s not a completely wrong-headed interpretation of the Testaments that’s the problem with modern society, it’s the lack of statues of Gun-Totin’ Capitalist White Jeebus.

    Exactly what century is this wanker inhabiting? Because it sounds more like the 12th than the 21st.

  52. 52.

    low-tech cyclist

    @eclare:

    I hope the Crackers, human and pet, are able to go home soon!

    Would the latter be the animal Crackers?

    My in-laws in Plant City are all doing OK, amazingly enough. Everybody’s alive and well (or at least, as well as they were before Irma, given that MIL’s in the ICU), and while my FIL lost power and my BIL’s yard has turned into a pond, that’s about the extent of it. Lucky lucky lucky.

  53. 53.

    The Moar You Know

    Fox and Friends actually went there on today of all days.

    @TenguPhule: The Republican party has routinely worked 9/11 like a pimp works his stable of hookers during Fleet Week. With a similar amount of grace and dignity and respect for the dead, which is to say, none at all. So I’d like to say this is shocking and surprising, but it’s not at all.

  54. 54.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @TenguPhule:

    “Do you worry that 100 years from now someone is going to take that memorial down like they are trying remake our memorials today?” Kilmeade asked, referring to the recent controversies that have led to the removal of statues for Confederate military leaders like Robert E. Lee.

    In 100 years, almost everyone alive today will be dead so it really doesn’t matter, because there’s very little we can do about it now.

    We can learn from it. Since we don’t put up statues of Jesus, everyone is going to fall morally short.

    This Zinke guy must not get out much. Go to the nearest Catholic Church and you’ll see statues of Jesus in all of his tortured, half-dead glory.

    “I’m one that believes we should learn from history and I think our monuments are part of our country’s history,” Zinke replied. “We can learn from it. Since we don’t put up statues of Jesus, everyone is going to fall morally short. And I think reflecting on our history, both good and bad, is a powerful statement and part of our DNA. So I’m an advocate of, again, learning from our monuments, understanding the period they were made. But also, we live in a great country and monuments are not Republican, Democrat, independent. The monuments are a tribute to all of us.”

    This zombie lie has got to die. No one’s proposing erasing Robert E. Lee from history. There will still be history books teaching that history, hopefully in a more accurate form. The real bone of contention here is whether Confederate monuments put up decades ago to commemorate slavers and treason should be allowed to still be on public property. Most city officials aren’t even considering completely destroying them.

    I’d rather they be in museums and special public spaces so people of the future can understand how pervasive white supremacy was in the past. And how dare Fox compare Confederate traitors to ordinary Americans who sacrificed themselves to save potentially hundreds or thousands of lives.

  55. 55.

    boatboy_srq

    @TenguPhule: IANAA* (I Am Not An Admiral), but it sounds a lot like the kind of skimping on training the Royal Navy did in Victorian times – when captains pitched shot overboard to preserve their brightwork rather than drill with the munitions and have to repaint/revarnish. Training costs, and keeping under budget is still likely a performance metric.

  57. 57.

    randy khan

    @ Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) :

    I think it’s pretty normal for a Justice to issue a temporary stay in a case like this, so that the whole court can review the request and any response. It obviously would be better if he hadn’t, but I wouldn’t read anything specific into it.

  61. 61.

    The Moar You Know

    Hey Adam, when you’re awake and coherent, can you give us the skivvy on how the hell this happened.

    @TenguPhule: I can substitute.

    The US Navy is getting ground to the bone, like all the other services. I’m hearing stories of guys working sixteen hour days, seven days a week, or more for years on end. Not weeks, months, but years. There’s no time for training or anything else, everything is falling by the wayside, and the whole reason it hasn’t gone completely to shit is due to the sailors being fairly young and just busting their asses, and a healthy dose of luck, but both can only keep you going for so long and we’re running out of youth and luck in a big way.

    We need more people in the system, and that means vastly increased salaries and better career prospects, and a better chance of “doing your 20” so you can get retirement. The odds right now of someone doing a full 20 – and those people are valuable, the have knowledge and skills that get lost when they’re drummed out early – are less than me being able to retire at 60. IOW, zero.

    We spend all the money on shit hardware and weapons systems that don’t work and haven’t put a dime into the human asset end since the 1990s. That desperately needs to change. From where I’m sitting, nobody’s even acknowledging that it’s a problem, so it won’t change.

  66. 66.

    TenguPhule

    News cameras caught nine looters during Hurricane Irma. The suspects were arrested within hours.

    Predictably, as the storm moved up Florida’s southern tip over the weekend, mug shots began to show up on the police department’s Twitter feed.

    “Can’t say we didn’t warn you,” police wrote, above the photos of two men arrested on burglary charges Saturday night.

    But those warnings weren’t enough, apparently.

    In the rain-filtered daylight of Sunday, nine people lined up outside a hole smashed into the window of a sportswear store. Some of them ducked into the hole and then scrambled out, arms loaded with shoe boxes — in full view of a passing news crew, which captured the scene on video.

    “Shortly thereafter, it was the Foot Locker across the street,” a reporter with ABC affiliate WPLG said, narrating the video.

    The police, as ever, were watching.

    By Saturday afternoon, they announced that nine people had been arrested on suspicion of looting the store and a nearby pawnshop.

    Florida.

  68. 68.

    opiejeanne

    @chris: Yeah, those fuckers are in WA. I don’t understand why the cops didn’t arrest them for assault for the tear gas attack.

  69. 69.

    Lapassionara

    @The Moar You Know: I agree, and I don’t know why they strut around so proudly on this anniversary, since Bush was in office that day and almost every decision he made afterward has made us less safe, not more.

  71. 71.

    Adam L Silverman

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Pretty much the same as where I evaced from (went 40 minutes south). We were west of the eye, so on the last dangerous part of the storm. Steady winds in the 40-50 mph range with gusts up to 70-80 mph. Steady rain. The eye moved past us between about 7:30 and midnight. With one last feeder band around 1:30 AM or so. Power never went out where we were at and from what I can tell it didn’t go out at home either.

  73. 73.

    raven

    @Adam L Silverman: The wind is cranking pretty heavily here but nothing compared to what others get. We just finished watching Cross Creek just to keep the florida theme going. The 5 dogs have all gotten along well but the chihuahua still doesn’t like me! The two cats have been non-factors, they are just laying low in the guest BR.

  74. 74.

    Yutsano

    @Major Major Major Major: The Christian sense of female acquiescence has always been a silly notion. There are numerous societies outside the Christian west that have had strong leadership. Hell Pakistan has had more female prime ministers than England.

  76. 76.

    Adam L Silverman

    @HeleninEire: SE Florida got hammered. They were in the NE quadrant (most dangerous) for hours when Irmas was moving through the Florida straits and the keys. They’re going to be out of power down there for a while. If he’s smart he’ll keep his gob shut.

  83. 83.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Brachiator:
    The most disgusting people I can imagine are people who only have their race and nationality going for them in their lives. These are the same people who link skin color with how patriotic they are. It’s so hypocrtical and gross.

  84. 84.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @stinger:
    Never. They’re fed a sanitized version of American history and either believe it without question (and are too busy getting drunk at HS football games) or know what the statues really stand for and agree.

  85. 85.

    mskitty

    We didn’t get hurt by Harvey at my home, and a lot of Houston is functioning normally, but – a front tooth crown just fell out and my dentist can’t work because his water is shut off today, to clear contamination.

  87. 87.

    Miss Bianca

    Yay, good news from Adam and the Crackers! Hoping all the other BJ-ers out there in Irma’s path fare so well!

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    @TenguPhule:
    Why do you think the fleet commander was relieved? He’s a pretty high up dude and they are the one’s normally handing out the penalties.
    I said this before and it may be valid again. During Vietnam we were supposed to have a 600 ship navy. We of course didn’t have the personnel, the money nor enough ships in reasonable condition to do that. But that was the order, 600 ships. So most ships had crew shortages, we had at least one WWII destroyer in our flotilla, stationed as I was in Charleston. I knew a sailor on that ship and it was barely sea worthy at all. It was ordered to Vietnam and most of the crew were certain it wouldn’t make it that far. It looked in pathetically bad shape, fresh paint or not. Some of the ships, like the USS McCain are 25 yrs old, really the end of their service lives. The USS Fitzgerald is 23 yrs old. These ships have seen a lot of miles and I’d bet between the ships and the reduced crews (current DDGs have a complement of 281, DDGs from the 60s like I was stationed on had a complement of about 325, but we sailed with around 300) mean most likely longer hours and more on station time and less training and rest time. It’s always been a problem for navy ships, the time sailing drains you, and that is if people aren’t shooting at you. It’s worse when they are. Keeping qualified people in and recruiting new people is always difficult and a lot harder when you are at war, especially when they are “unpopular.” Running ships undermanned and under trained always equals trouble. Here is one link

  90. 90.

    The Moar You Know

    But that was the order, 600 ships. So most ships had crew shortages, we had at least one WWII destroyer in our flotilla, stationed as I was in Charleston. I knew a sailor on that ship and it was barely sea worthy at all. It was ordered to Vietnam and most of the crew were certain it wouldn’t make it that far. It looked in pathetically bad shape, fresh paint or not.

    @Ruckus: “Hey, uh, where’s the lifeboats?”

    “We slapped some paint and a pair of .50 cals on ’em. They’re the newest destroyers.”

    “Damn, I wish I asked while we were still in port.”

  92. 92.

    Kathleen

    @Adam L Silverman: So glad to hear all is well with you and your family. My family in Tampa didn’t lose power either, though I’m not sure if they had any damage at all. My best to all Juicers and their friends and families who have dealt or will be dealing with this storm and its aftermath.

  93. 93.

    Ruckus

    @The Moar You Know:
    We also had issues with safety equipment. No climbing harnesses if you had to go aloft. I did, twice. My safety line was a rope that I tied and no one watching me. At least 25 yr old WWII life vests and no foul weather gear even though we sailed above the Arctic Circle in winter and refueled at sea. An open motor launch and a captains gig but no life rafts. We once were refueling at sea and they called for the helicopter handling crew to recover stores, but they were the same people, so it was impossible. The captain called for it twice before someone told him we couldn’t do that, we didn’t have enough people, and that was one of the lower enlisted people who shouted up from forward refueling. The captain had no clue and neither did any of the officers below him.
    It amazes me that more navy ships don’t run into things or get in the way.

  95. 95.

    Raven

    @Ruckus: I wish I could get you the final war diary of the Crosby. I’m gonna put my email up for a minute

    It’s markann at the google mail dot com

  98. 98.

    dimmsdale

    @Adam L Silverman: REALLY glad you & Betty made it thru. I have a cousin in Polk City, so I was glued for the duration to the internet feed from Channel 10, Tampa Bay–a local station, but a first-rate weather & anchor team and disconcertingly young roving correspondents (I felt myself wanting to ask “Do your parents know you’re out in this weather??”) The storm track was never entirely certain, until it finally was–and my cousin’s expectations went from bracing for 90-mph gusts (in a building frankly not built for it) to emerging unscathed from 50-plus gusts–and a ridiculously narrow margin between total destruction and “Whew, dodged that one!”

  100. 100.

    Scamp Dog

    @Kathleen: To me it came off as an over-the-top exaggeration of a Bernie Bro, funny in a somewhat disheartening way. An actual Bernie Bro would probably avoid contradicting himself in the same sentence (although it would definitely happen before too long).

  101. 101.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Scamp Dog: As far as extremely cringeworthy on-the-nose satire of what people sound like when they talk about Hillary (there’s a noun phrase) goes, The Onion nailed it 11 years ago with Hillary Clinton is Too Ambitious to be the First Female President.

    Women can be just as smart and qualified as men—especially the clowns we’ve had in Washington lately. But Hillary Clinton? She’s just a little too ambitious to do what no woman before her has ever done.

  102. 102.

    Ruckus

    @eclare:
    You’d have to understand exactly what the New Yorker is to see that as funny. Otherwise he is so spot on the rabid right that it’s almost scary.
    Now if you did understand that it’s an Andyism, even if he didn’t write it, then it’s cool.

  105. 105.

    Ruckus

    @eclare:
    I think a couple of others didn’t know see or know that. And yes when I first read it I thought Andy. But then it was too close to home and not quite satirical enough to be him. Hence the Andyism.

  106. 106.

    Karen

    @Ruckus: My Dad stayed touch with all his friends from Navy, not hard to do when you live in SF; after some complaints he suggested that they check Alameda to make sure some idiot wasn’t using something from Naval Yard.

  108. 108.

    celticdragonchick

    Good to see you are okay Adam. :)

    Also, only a month to go until the next Blade Runner movie!!!!!!!!!!!

  109. 109.

    Mel

    So glad that you and loved ones are okay. Fingers crossed thal all is well at Betty’s, and hoping that everyone else who was affected is safe and sound.

  110. 110.

    Brachiator

    @Kathleen:

    @WaterGirl:

    Was that snark? I couldn’t tell. At any rate it wasn’t really very funny even if it was meant as snark.

    I thought that the piece struck just the right note. But then again, I think that snark is often easy and obvious, while good satire takes some talent.

    ..

  112. 112.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @boatboy_srq: Part of the problem is lack of time–if people are pulling extra or longer shifts because of personnel shortages, and ships are pulling longer cruises because of ship shortages, you’re not going to have the time to get everything done, and things are going to be left undone. Training is often one of them, especially when it’s training people in things they feel they already know how to do.

  113. 113.

    Tehanu

    Just adding my 2 cents. Glad that you, Adam, and family, and Betty C and her family (including dogs, hens…) are all OK.

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