Well I "re-cut" the cord today. We officially got off of cable TV about 2 years ago and went to YouTubeTV for general viewing. Recently, my wife and I were talking about which subscriptions to end that we were not using with the primary contenders being ATV+, Disney/Hulu and Netflix. But then we agreed after a short conversation that it was the most expensive subscription that we were using the least, that being YouTubeTV at $83 a month.
In reviewing our habits, with a news media blackout in place since the last election, we were watching about 15 minutes of local news a few times a week and that was about it. When we thought about anything else there were a few instances of watching reruns of Diners, Drive-ns and Dives to kill time.
So today I cancelled the YoutubeTV subscription, becoming a hero to my wife. Then downloaded the ATV app for the most local station, which not only carries the news, but also some other programming. Free.
As this horrible flash flood tragedy on the Guadelupe River in Central Texas plays out, hard not to see how federal budget cuts to the weather service and emergency services may have played a role.
Not to mention that Kerr county has no warning system!?! Texas spends billions on "border security," maybe some investment elsewhere is warranted.
How agonizing for the entire area impacted, especially the parents of the 2 dozen girl campers still missing. I'm astonished how that could happen, as someone who spent decades with youth camping organizations. I pray the girls are safe somehow awaiting rescue, but it seems unlikely at this late stage.
Almost twenty years ago, I began rowing on a Concept II indoor rowing machine (ergometer). Concept II lets you track your progress on its web site.
This past week, I finally hit my long-term goal of rowing around the world (40,000,008 meters going through both poles).
In the beginning, I would rotate between a daily 10k, 5k, or half-hour session. Some years back, I switched to a daily 10k. Originally, I could complete this in just under fifty minutes. Nowadays, it takes me a bit less than an hour.
Switched from listening to podcasts to a daily, compact-disc worth of whatever audiobook is current.
It’s hard to get precise information on how many people have been removed so far by the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security’s statistics office has stopped publishing monthly data on immigration enforcement. DHS did not respond to a question on why it’s no longer available.
Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post that more than 239,000 migrants had been deported since Trump took office. She did not respond to a query on whether that included people detained by both the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. If it does — as analysts said was likely — it would be significantly fewer than the 341,060 repatriated from February through June last year under President Joe Biden.
There is a moment, just before creation begins, when the work exists in its most perfect form in your imagination. It lives in a crystalline space between intention and execution, where every word is precisely chosen, every brushstroke deliberate, every note inevitable, but only in your mind. In this prelapsarian state, the work is flawless because it is nothing: a ghost of pure potential that haunts the creator with its impossible beauty.
This is the moment we learn to love too much.
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