Reasons to be Cheerful, MaryLou Costa: [Woodworking and Hugs: Inside the Mental Health Movement for Men](https://reasonstobecheerful.world/mens-sheds-mental-health-woodworking-therapy/) “Men will talk shoulder to shoulder, but not necessarily face to face.”
Charges and indictments are nice and all, but I won’t celebrate until Teflon Don is actually in jail. Even he is “innocent until proven guilty,” like it or not.
We don’t really have a chance to fix the gun problem in America until we fix the money in politics problem. There are a number of organizations working on this including represent.us, AmericanPromise.net, and MoveToAmend.org. I hope you check them out and consider helping.
I recently added a thunderbolt dock to my iMac so I could use an external SSD, monitor, and audio interface at the same time. Today, I found out that since this iMac is a 2017, it won’t run Sonoma. I though I’d get more time out of this dock than one year.
Does VisionOS require the Mind Stone or is that built in?
My problem with libertarians is they act like government is bad, business is good, but the reality is that any “construct of man” whether it be government, business, religion, charity, etc., can be poorly run, flawed, or even corrupt. They all need oversight. Like the checks and balances of our government itself, we can use these organizations to watch over each other.
People get mad at others for not voting, and then they get mad when they don’t vote for who they want them to vote for.
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Between our house and our neighbors, there’s a huge sweetgum tree. It’s completely on our side except for the roots. I wish it was anywhere but there, but I am loathe to cut down a healthy tree.
Shortly after we bought the place two years ago, the neighbor came by and asked us about taking it out in a way that she later apologized for. I thought the matter was over, but I should have known better. When we had our tree guy here back around that time, we mentioned it to him and he thought it was fine and there was no reason to cut it down.
Last week I installed a camera on that side because that area between the houses is a weird space that we and the neighbors rarely visit and I just wanted to be able to see what was going on over there, even if 99% of the time it was absolutely nothing (I’ve been making a joke to Lori that it was Must See TV). Today, the camera recorded our neighbor talking to some contractor-looking fellow about an estimate for taking the tree out, even though she admitted to him it was ours and she’d be willing to split the costs of taking it out. She wants to talk to “him” (me) about cutting the tree down.
Sigh. I don’t want to be a bad neighbor, the roots from the tree are crazy everywhere between the houses, but I really don’t want to cut down the tree, either.
And bonus, we just had some landscaping put around on that side, which would probably get messed up by tree guys.
I can only hope the contractor never gets back to her or she never gets around to asking us.
With today being the start of hurricane season, I’ll rant once again that I think that giving storms names is stupid. A number or even a letter would suffice. 2023-A1 (A for Atlantic, P for Pacific) makes sense, and they could be called A5, P4, etc. for short. Then they don’t have to come up with names nor retire them. There would be only one 2017-A8, for instance.