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Well, I fell getting up from my desk, with my left leg straight out. I checked later but could not find any banana peel. The sprain is also my left ankle, but sustained 10 days later.

The menu would be OK, but I think that the drink is just lemonade with vodka in it. There is still (since yesterday) no Tempranillo in the Finger Lakes. I'll counter with the gold-winning Stoney Lonesome Estate Zweigelt from the Three Brothers Winery. I haven't been to Whitehorse or anywhere in the Yukon but I watch Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet. Today was going to be the last sunny day this week, and I wanted to Experience the Beauty of Nature twice, at a forest preserve and a nature center that are very near each other, but there wasn't time. So here is what looks like a rail trail but was actually built to provide utility access for a Corning Inc. facility.

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).

I need to clean up my pantry, but with an acupuncture appointment and a class presentation this afternoon, it won't happen today. I'm nervous about the presentation, because I think some of the other students will disagree strongly with my conclusions. I haven't recovered from the time they criticized my religion for allowing meat even though all of theirs did, too. I've often cited the Alice Roosevelt Longworth quotation. Her father (Teddy) is supposed to have said that he could govern either the country or Alice, not both. Not sure about the flatbread. No on the drink. My father used to buy vermouth that came with a certificate from a former Pope. There is actually a Finger Lakes sweet vermouth, from Method Spirits, not Pope-endorsed.

The vegetarian stuffed cabbage would be OK with me as long as it's not stuffed with real vegetarians. More seriously, I might like the filling more than the cabbage, but stuffed cabbage is OK. I don't like stuffed peppers--I think that peppers need to be sautéed, not baked. Pass on the drink. For a Pinot Noir rosé, Dr. Frank's 2021 is sold out so let's buy Thirsty Owl's 2023 and cellar it for a while. I'm feeling a lot less pain from the fall 12 days ago, but as the most severe pain subsides it is allowing me to feel the other injuries. The bruising is spectacular but all concealed by clothing. Yes, I have arnica gel. The main (i.e., only) project for today is to finish the PowerPoint for the presentation I'm giving in class tomorrow. That entails some video editing, which I don't enjoy at all. Referring to yesterday, might the bullfighter be named Jenkins?

https://www.arcanobarcelona.com/en For a group, they offer two or three set menus, but each menu allows choices within courses, and they require a deposit.

I was just relieved that it was the day and not the menu.

The meal would be OK. Once for a lunch at the synagogue, I made something similar and tried to trick everyone by using smoked cheese, so that they would taste as if they might contain bacon. Yet another pseudotini. For the wine, the Dry Riesling by J.R. Dill that I mentioned on March 28 and still have some of in the refrigerator. I awoke to sunshine. Weather.com said that today would be the last day this week with any sun and that it would cloud over in the afternoon, so right after breakfast I headed out to Experience the Beauty of Nature. This is Taughannock Falls, the highest single-drop waterfall east of the Rockies. This is from an overlook with road access. I hope to have enough mobility by next week to take the path to the pool at the bottom of the falls, just out of view in the foreground. This was #6 of the required 10. I also awoke to two complaining cats, but I have no idea what about. It is very rare for DaVinci to say anything; Mona Lisa is the spokescat.

The US Army Corps of Engineers has announced a plan to restore some more ship traffic at Baltimore by the end of the month. The plan is to open a 35-foot by 280-foot channel, which would accommodate roll-on/roll-off and container-on-barge traffic, but not "boxships" (intermodal container ships), and only one ship would be able to use it at a time. It's deep enough for RC Vision of the Seas and the Carnival Pride, but if traffic is limited, they may not get any priority. The temporary access lanes already opened are only 11 and 14 feet deep.

I went outdoors for the Dark Show, but all I can report is that it grew dark enough for neighbors' outdoor lights on photocells to turn on.