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Passover decorations (not really a thing but I started doing it in 2020)

Probably. Today I did not find much serenity on the Lackawanna Rail Trail. It has nice river views on one side, but there's an interstate highway on the other. This is from a railroad bridge that the trail uses.

I had to wear a sling for a month after breaking my arm (surgical repair, so no cast), even in bed, but I always had clothing under it, since it was December. My first cruise was four months later, and I dislocated the other shoulder shortly before it. The ortho doc said that I could go, provided that I used rolling luggage and checked it, kept my cabin bag light enough to lift with one hand, and followed instructions from a physical therapist. It led to some odd packing, such as an ice bag (made all the difference) and a carpenter's folding ruler. The latter was for mobility exercises; any stick that was long enough would have done, but would have been too long to fit in the bag I was taking.

Thank you. It's not so very painful, but there was a lot of swelling. I've never had so much swelling from a sprained ankle before, but I've never been 72 before, either. I once asked in the ER if there was a frequent-patient rewards program. They said that it wasn't supposed to work that way.

What defines an end of cruise shirt?

One of my friends is an ASL interpreter who has the unusual specialty of interpreting song lyrics, including lyrics in Hebrew, adhering to the rhythm of the music. You could also make the salad with Swiss chard, because chard is the same species, selected to grow solely for the foliage. I'd try the drink, once. There is still no Tempranillo in the Finger Lakes, so I'll recommend Lakewood's Cabernet Franc. Medical update: I've mostly recovered from the fall a bit over two weeks ago, and the bruises are turning really interesting colors, but I sprained my ankle last week. The rain here has stopped but it's very wet, so my Beauty of Nature today will be from a rail trail that is paved.

Professor's comments on my presentation last week: Brilliant work, Paul! You gave us a feast of insight last evening, carefully showing the complex layers of considerations (ethical, social, ecological, and political) around the questions emerging from the renewable energy transition taking place in your upstate NY context. Your research is comprehensive and thorough (with excellent citation practices both on your slides and in the bibliography); and your ethical analysis sets a new standard for this assignment as you weave together both philosophical and religious considerations around the pressing questions at hand.

The tradition in my family is to make barley and mushroom soup, or lentil soup, not to combine two unrelated ideas, but a cholent would contain barley and beans. I think that a Gin Martini is simply a Martini, in contrast to any kind of pseudotini. For a Syrah, the 2022 from Atwater Vineyards, $45.

For some people--I was one--the cough stops after about a month. I'm no longer taking lisinopril, but for another reason.

"This is Steve. Steve takes Voquezna." must be the worst advertisement currently running on streaming TV.

I didn't know the history of National Borinqueneers Day, but I sort of recognized the reference because a Riqueño restaurant here is called Boricana. The goat-cheese chart with Swiss chard sounds interesting, and I can get chard. I might like the cocktail, once. For a red blend based on Bordeaux varieties, Millers Cove Red from Keuka Spring Vineyards, $25. I haven't been to Oranjestad but it's in my itinerary for December.

I learned a new term in German this afternoon: Eierlegende Wollmilchsau. It's a pig that also lays eggs and gives wool and milk.

Lentils and curry are each OK with me separately, but on the mind's tongue they don't taste good together. No on the drink. Since the wine is a blend of unidentified varieties, I'll go with a Finger Lakes blend from hybrid grapes, i.e., grapes that have some ancestry in species native to North America as well as vinifera varieties: Lakewood's Long Stem Red, a blend of Baco Noir, Dechaunac, Leon Millot, Marechal Foch, Frontenac and Vincent, at $12. Cozumel was in an itinerary that I cancelled once.

I survived giving the presentation. To be clear, I'm not at all afraid of giving presentations, but I had predicted objections to the principal conclusion: that it is morally permissible to allow a certain amount of environmental degradation in order to prevent a much larger amount. However, the questions were about cryptocurrency (why I think it's an environmental hazard) and whether forests are ever cut to build solar farms (no, it would be too expensive).

A sheriff's deputy who was gravely injured (skull fracture and brain bleed) in a foot chase of a suspect through a parking lot here about two weeks ago and airlifted to a trauma center has been released to rehab. He had an honor guard of dozens of law-enforcement officers and almost the entire staff of the hospital (many on the upper tiers of the atrium).