What an item to add to a University application!
Yesterday and today are free food days here. You can find free food huts everywhere. From bread to fried rice, tea to fruit juice, people give away food. The occasion is the âPoson Full Moon Dayâ. On this day in 3rd century BC Sri Lanka received Buddhism which changed the culture and life of the whole population.
What a great way to celebrate.
For the last few months Iâve been seeing the a new phenomenon repetitively (several times a day) while driving, which is driving me nuts:
People driving ahead (directly or 1 or 2 up) of me who brake as theyâre approaching a green light. Not just a little tap, but a significant reduction in speed, 25% or more. In a 45 mph zone doing about 45, slowing down to about 30 mph as they approach and proceed through the light. Many times this has the effect that I then miss the light.
Itâs GREEN dangit - go forth, donât slow down. I donât understand what is going on in their brains. Are they afraid itâs going to suddenly jump from green directly to red, and theyâll need stopping distance?
Are there any places where traffic lights switch directly from the âproceedâ color to the âstopâ color with no warning color between? Maybe all these folks are from this mysterious land.
End Rant.
If anything they may just be afraid of people who run red lights and t-bone cars crossing in front of them. Not all intersections have enough peripheral visibility for everyone to feel safe. Theyâre not thinking if someone who might rear-end them when they do that. Just my 2¢.
Thatâs what my wife was thinking (she being a more charitable person than I), but we had extensive driving in this vicinity both Saturday and yesterday, and the people we were stuck behind did it everywhere: full- and low-visibility intersections, even full-vis intersections where there were cars stacked up on both sides awaiting their reds to turn green, so no one could possibly run the intersection.
Other than perhaps the person who swerved into the opposite lane to bypass the stopped cars to crash the light, like someone under police pursuit. But then I suppose youâd hear the sirensâŚ
The Philly-Rhode Island feud escalates
This is my favorite story of the week. Especially the âbest croissant in Philadelphiaâ part.
I liked the fact that the guy is now on medical leave for mental health issues.
Not sure being an asshole is a sign of poor mental health, but Iâm not a doctor.
Interesting take from RI: https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/columns/2023/06/15/apologies-to-philadelphia-following-actions-of-david-patten-james-thorsen-armory-redevelopment/70320871007/
Designing a Facebook ad for my tourism âbusiness.â Looking for a very short slogan such as âif you never go you will never know.â That one is from a tour website so I canât use it. 
Endevaouring to get through 2023 relatively unscathed. Appointments with GP for odema â self-inflicted from spending hours at my desk watching repeats of TV programmes and not taking my usual daily exercise which I stopped because of self-inflicted knee pain, trips to local hospital for CT scans ahead of daily out-patient visit starting tomorrow for four weeks. Then a visit to the GP surgeryâs on-staff physio to try to sort out my knee problem to resume my daily exercise, which was 5 miles over various terrains and took me 90 minutes. Somewhere in there I also have telephone consults about my out-patient sessions and with my specialist who booked the out-patients stuff.
In addition to that I have had to stop my baking for a while which makes me sad. Now even more of a Pathetic Baker than I was.
I hope you will get back 100% health in 2023. I honestly believe you will. 
Can you get into a pool and do some water aerobics? JMOFE, the low impact H2O walking and exercises are wonders for joints and helping to build strength. Best of luck getting through this.
Hoping they will find the submersible. My question is why they didnât have a beacon on it. Only radio communication. They shouldâve had a beacon. And a ship should have followed it. When they charge 250k USD they can do that.
Even if they locate it how can they pull it up because under 2.5kms under water it needs equipment that can handle such tasks.
40 hours of oxygen left. Hope they will locate it soon.
I think that a couple of thrill seeking billionaires who Iâd never heard of before made a bad $250K decision. When it comes to the Titanic, I say let sleeping dogs lie.
Not a risk I would take, but a truly tragic situation. There are some bright and creative minds aboard, as well as decades of research at risk. It appears to be extremely dire at this point - I can hardly imagine anything worse. Itâs likely the submersible has exploded or imploded at this point, or perhaps damaged beyond all repair and at the bottom of the ocean. Sad.
