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Monday Night Open Thread

by WaterGirl|  January 17, 202211:05 pm| 16 Comments

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I just woke up and I’m headed for bed, so I don’t have much to say but it looks like we could use an Open Thread.

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  1. 1.

    Benw

    January 17, 2022 at 11:11 pm

    Everyone take care of yourselves and those you can care for. I’m hoping for the best for all of you

  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    January 17, 2022 at 11:12 pm

    TheHill:

    Senate Democrats are convening a special, in-person caucus meeting on Tuesday as they brace for a fight on voting rights and the filibuster to come to a head.

    Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called the meeting for 5 p.m. on Tuesday, a source confirmed to The Hill. Unlike most of the caucus meetings in the wake of the rise of the omicron coronavirus variant, the meeting will be in person.

    The meeting comes as the Senate is expected to formally start debate on Tuesday on voting legislation that combines the Freedom to Vote Act, which would overhaul federal elections and campaign finance laws, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which strengthens and expands the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

    […]

    We’ll see what happens…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  3. 3.

    Jerzy Russian

    January 17, 2022 at 11:17 pm

    Your post rhymes a bit (… off to bed, … need an open thread).

     

    I would like to go to bed myself, but I try to make it to 10:00 pm before that happens.  I would wake up too early the. next day.

  4. 4.

    John Revolta

    January 17, 2022 at 11:19 pm

    I just woke up and I’m headed for bed
    Thought for sure this was Cole at first. Regardless, it’s got “song lyric” written all over it.

  5. 5.

    West of the Rockies

    January 17, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    @Benw:

    You doing alright, BenW?

  6. 6.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 17, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    Do we still have aspiring/successful writers here? I recently ran across a SF/Fantasy writing class Brandon Sanderson taught at BYU in 2020 that’d been posted online, and listened to it (all 12 hours or so) over a week. For a non-author it was really instructive, but I feel like there’s a lot there for newer writers too.

    For extra weirdness, Covid hits about 2/3rds of the way through the class and they have to move to entirely remote around the 8th or 9th episode. Just fascinating in retrospect.

    Anyway, worth listening to if you’re at all interested in the subject but I’m really curious what our own authors think about it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ&index=2&ab_channel=BrandonSanderson

  7. 7.

    Juju

    January 17, 2022 at 11:56 pm

    I’m a night owl ?. If I try to sleep too early for me I tend not to sleep at all.

  8. 8.

    Ohio Mom

    January 18, 2022 at 12:00 am

    Ever since the beginning of Covid, I often fall asleep while reading in bed after supper. Then I wake up around 11 and get ready for bed.

    I think it’s because there is just not enough happening in my life. For obvious reasons.

  9. 9.

    West of the Rockies

    January 18, 2022 at 12:02 am

    Just after 2100 hours here.  Some sort of to-do out on the lake because the geese are honking up a storm.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    January 18, 2022 at 12:09 am

    Accomplished very, very little today.

    And feeling darned pleased about it.

    ;)

  11. 11.

    Kropacetic

    January 18, 2022 at 12:11 am

    QAnon may be evidence it was actually a bad idea to let the squares at the weed

  12. 12.

    RaflW

    January 18, 2022 at 12:13 am

    We packed up the big Xmas tree in the living room tonight. It was time, and tomorrow more light will come thru the front windows since the tree was blocking about 1/4 of it, but it feels a little empty. Still, it’s a ‘celebration’ of sorts: Sunset was after 5pm today for the first time since Nov 9th. We don’t need the tree lights quite as much as I do in bleak December.

    Also had a great short hike (just under two miles – not really a hike in dry conditions but the snow increases the effort noticeably) on snowy rustic trails at one of our excellent lake parks here (and as it happens, just blocks from the house where Mary Tyler Moore ‘lived’ during the first several seasons of her eponymous show). Oh, and BF ran out and got yuuuuumy takeout. An OK pandemic holiday Monday.

  13. 13.

    Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan

    January 18, 2022 at 12:17 am

    @Kropacetic: Or perhaps not ENOUGH weed.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    January 18, 2022 at 12:26 am

    The 6000 mile man.

    Received another “Help!” tech call from Mom in NY yesterday. The base unit for her landline was doing weird things and displaying cryptic messages.

    It’s a cliché but first thing instructed her (once I talked her down from the virtual ledge) was that old buddy “Have you tried unplugging it, waiting 30 seconds* and plugging it back in?” Voila, problem solved.

    ;)

    *Yeah, 15 seconds is usually sufficient for capacitors to sufficiently discharge but I always say 30 to coddle the impatient, who I find then wait 20 seconds while saying they waited 30.

  15. 15.

    Jeff Del Papa

    January 18, 2022 at 1:40 am

    We had high winds and rain last night. I had one of those “instant garage” tents in the back yard. This morning the roof and sides were in tatters. I moved the stuff that doesn’t like water elsewhere, but the big kinetic sculpture that was the whole reason for putting the tent up in the first place was damaged sufficiently that I don’t really want to repair it.

    (It was a “scale” model of a power tool. The scale happened to be 1 foot to the inch. (12 times bigger than the original). It wasn’t built for outdoor storage, I built it like a stage prop, a metal armature, carved styrofoam over that, covered with “space blankets” so it appeared to be made of cast aluminum.)

  16. 16.

    StringOnAStick

    January 18, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    @Jeff Del Papa: So the kinetic sculpture was damaged by kinetic action?  Very Zen.  Bummer about the shredded cover system.

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