Fall New (Fallowturn) Moon
Was gonna plant lilies and iris but got stuck on the computers, shifting stuff around, getting a new computer setup, then into writing my essay for the mythology class. Discovered after creating a 500 word piece that I’d read the instructions wrong, 250-350 words. Condensing is another matter. Will take some time tomorrow.
Then I went into the Sierra Club for the Legislative Awards. Each year we give awards to our champions, up to 4, in the last session. This year we gave them to Frank Hornstein, Alice Hausman and Bill Hiltey. Hiltey, who retired this year, gave a downbeat assessment of our odds in the future unless “reasonable” people get elected. He sighted corporate control of legislators and the anti-science attitudes as difficult barriers to advances in environmental legislation. The environment is, he said, and I believe, too, collateral damage of the economic and political culture we now have.
Cutting the cable news: right now Kate and I are watching the Poirot series on Netflix. There are 55 episodes and we can go through them at our own pace. Never regretted the decision to bounce Comcast TV. Well, with one exception. Sometimes the picture quality suffers because of non-HD transmissions. That’s too bad when we have a good HD setup.
