I feel better than last time I posted (I knew I would). And you know what?... making those prints helped quite a bit. 

I'm feeling like doing light writing again. I enjoy the fluidity and symbolic nature of that style of photography, and it feels fitting right now. 





 This was a REALLY good latte that I didn't even have to sweeten. And I don't know what that strawberry rhubarb thing is... But it was amazing. Sitting outside enjoying this delicious coffee and treat was such a joyful moment. I think I need more of this.


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Joe Conservative said…
That looks like a BIG cup of coffee...

Nice composition in the top photo, too. Jes sayin'...
June 21, 2022 at 11:31 AM
Jen said…
It was a huge cup of coffee! And thanks, I thought it was a pleasant amount of clutter.

How's your summer going, FJ? Are you still working from home?

June 22, 2022 at 5:34 AM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said…
Officially I'm three days a week telecommute, two days office. The office days are "killer"... I go, but the parking lot is 9/10ths empty. Might as well be home. Work is "broken"... and it's no longer worth the 56 miles each way drive. I have yet to go face-to-face with anyone in a meeting. Everything is TEAMS online.

How about you? Doing any PT w/ patients?
June 22, 2022 at 7:16 PM
Jen said…
It's crazy to me how different things are, regionally. No mask mandates in Texas, back to in-person meetings, and I'm still driving up to 200 miles per day with no increase in mileage compensation. With these gas prices it really is ridiculous to drive to the office if everything you do is through TEAMS anyway.

Yes, I'm seeing patients now. I started back around January and I'm feeling 90% strength at this point. I'm actually feeling quite burned out after having to fight workers comp on behalf of a patient with a spinal cord injury. I'm ready for a break.

We're headed to the beach in Alabama next week so I'm looking forward to that.

June 22, 2022 at 8:53 PM
Joe Conservative said…
"The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood." - Voltaire

So around Mobile... I used t have to fly down there for catching a class of ships we built at Sparrow's Point in Baltimore for Sea Trials in the early 80's. Nice town... but don't drink the tap water... ;P
June 23, 2022 at 8:21 AM
nicrap said…
Hey guys! Try solving this for x, or find someone who can. Please!

(8^x - 2^x)÷(6^X - 3^x) = 2
June 26, 2022 at 12:35 AM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said…
Don't make me do math, it's been too long. :(
June 26, 2022 at 9:00 AM
nicrap said…
Lol. The answer is correct, but the question is how to get it.
June 26, 2022 at 11:34 PM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said…
That's all I did, anyway... call me "lazy" but it works for approximation.
June 28, 2022 at 4:03 AM
nicrap said…
Got it. But what I need is a hard proof.
June 28, 2022 at 11:00 PM
Joe Conservative said…
I don't know... how about...

2(4^x-1^x) / 2(3^x - 3/2^x) = 2
(4^x -1^x) / (3^x - 3/2^x) = 2
(4^x - 1^x) = 2(3^x - 3/2^x)
(4^x - 1^x) = (6^X - 3^x)
x root of (4^x - 1^x) = x root of (6^X - 3^x)
x root of (4-1) = x root of (6-3)
x root of 3 = x root of 3

I forget my laws of powers...

June 29, 2022 at 1:30 PM
Joe Conservative said…
I give up. x is every/any number? What is this from?
June 29, 2022 at 1:36 PM
nicrap said…
It's a question from math Olympiad. Google doesn't help either. You can't guess a value and put it in the equation to see if it solves for that value, which is what it has done. Anyway, 0 is only one possible solution. There is also 1, and until we have hard proof nobody knows how many more.

Is she the new YouTube sensation???
June 30, 2022 at 8:39 AM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said…
No, an old one. I simply found it "innovative" approaching the end... with the tap dancing sounds, and of course "her mother voice" to her son near the end. She must have be having a hard time balancing career and family.... I'm sure that a lot of 'modern' woman would/ could empathize.
July 1, 2022 at 10:02 AM
nicrap said…
I hate bicycle math. ;)
July 4, 2022 at 5:32 AM
Jen said…
I was told there would be no math...
July 6, 2022 at 10:18 PM
Jen said…
What's the deal with the tap water in Mobile?

That was a LOT of driving for a one week vacation. The beach was lovely but I'm craving some cool mountain air now.
July 6, 2022 at 10:21 PM
nicrap said…
What's the deal with the tap water in Mobile?

Enlighten us!
July 7, 2022 at 11:36 PM
Jen said…
I'm asking FJ about the tap water in Mobile since he mentioned it earlier.
July 10, 2022 at 4:52 PM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said…
I was there in 1982 to catch a ship for Sea Trials. We stayed in this round hotel... don't remember the brand. All I remember about it was the tap water... which came out of the faucets brown and stained everything... even the white porcelein toilet bowls had a brown rusty stain... and there was a smell to it... and an irony taste. I know there are a lot of wells offshore, but. you couldn't pay me to drink the water.
July 10, 2022 at 7:24 PM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said…
I do remember when we got back from Sea Trials, the new owner greeted us at the dock with a pickup truck with its bed filled with ice and beer. We didn't have to drink the water that night...
July 10, 2022 at 7:28 PM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said…
They also bumped us up into 1st class on the return flight to Baltimore on Delta....
July 10, 2022 at 7:29 PM
nicrap said…
Now I get it! :)

We can't drink straight from the tap anymore here in India. Almost every household, at least those who can afford it, has water purifiers installed in the house. Nor do we get water supply round the clock. Just for a couple of hours. In the monsoon season sometimes not for days. So we have to store water as well.
July 10, 2022 at 8:21 PM
Thersites said…
Yes, when I lived in Venezuela, we couldn't drink the water, but it didn't smell horrible and wasn't discoloured. We drank bottled water. The tap water in Mobil... I don't know how they washed their clothes, it was so bad.
July 11, 2022 at 7:37 AM
Thersites said…
ps - In Venezuela we had also large water tanks/(cisterns with a concrete lid) on the flat roof of the house that served as a reservoir and supplied the water pressure for the indoor plumbing. I remember climbing the small wooden step latter to lift the lid once, and getting swarmed by wasps that had made a nest there. I had to jump off the roof onto a balcony, and then from the balcony into our back yard ripping my shirt off and swatting them. It felt like the tracker-jacker scene in Hunger Games.

I hate wasps.
July 11, 2022 at 7:47 AM
nicrap said…
Lol. Replace yellow jackets for wasps and everything else is the same here.
July 11, 2022 at 8:45 PM
Jen said…
Nikhil, you only have ruining water supply a few hours a day?
I would like to have a purification system installed here. Our city water supply barely passes acceptable levels of contamination.
July 12, 2022 at 8:46 PM
nicrap said…
Oh yes! Sometimes not even that. It's especially bad during the monsoon season ... Why we have, like FJ described, large water tanks on the roofs which act as reservoirs and supply the pressure for the indoor plumbing. Welcome to the third world! ;)
July 13, 2022 at 12:52 AM
Jen said…
People have cisterns in parts of Texas that receive very little rain. I think they were more common decades ago.
July 13, 2022 at 10:50 PM
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