44 bar rises 30.06 2mph N dewpoint 31 Spring
Waxing Gibbous Moon of Growing
A gray, cool start after a shirt sleeve day yesterday. We’re still in the hurry up and wait phase of gardening. It’s a bit too early for clean up, certainly too early for planting anything but cold weather crops. We don’t tend to do those, at least not so far, so the hydroponics are our primary entry in this years vegetable garden. The lettuce seedlings and tomato plant I put under the light first have grown rapidly. Not ready for harvest anytime soon, but on the way.
Kate made me aware of compounding pharmacies, a vestigial remnant of that which all pharmacies used to be, independent pharmaceutical manufactories. There are six in Minnesota including one in St. Paul, St. Peter and Wayzata. The Wayzata pharmacy has a glitzy name, RxArtisans. I knew a few of those when I was in college. The growth and reach of pharmaceutical companies has reduced the average pharmacy to nothing more than a retail distributor of already compounded drugs. This results, of course, in a matching of patients to available drugs and their available dosages, whereas the compounding pharmacy matched drugs to patients both in dosage and delivery vehicle.
The Delta buyout of Northwest, not a merger, will not be certain for some time to come. The pilots association of Northwest and the other unions flight attendants, ground crews and mechanics are about to become part of a larger, non-unionized pool. This creates probable labor and culture conflicts from day one. Also, congress and the regulators still have to approve, as does Wall Street. Both companies share price dropped the day after the announcement, an unusual event. Also, both airlines have an aging fleet of planes and debt hangover from their respective bankruptcies. The State of Minnesota wants its incentives back since Northwest, with the merger, violates the remain in Minnesota provision. All this reflects the turbulent nature of an industry who excels in nothing quite so much as an uncomfortable experience delivered for hundreds of dollars.
