“bamp bamp bamp bamp, buh bamp bamp bamp bamp, quiero estar sedado!”
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It was the revised lyrics from Ice Age 2. 
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For me personally, there’s very little purely good news these days. And I’ve felt that ever since COVID began, the only good news has been this man, Ohtani Shohei (pictured here with his adorable dog “Decoy” who is a Dutch Kooikerhondje (Dutch for “Duck catcher’s small dog”).
His performance yesterday was truly spectacular…so many records broken in one game. And unlike many athletes, he’s a great human being as well. I’ve never respected an athlete as much as I have him. Even the horrendous scandal with his interpreter didn’t phase him enough to let it affect his game.
By the way, though Shohei’s dog’s name in English is “Decoy”, his name in Japanese is “Dekopin”. “Dekopin” means to use your thumb to hold down your index finger and then flick it at someone’s forehead like this when Japanese soccer player Kagawa Shinji did it to his Japan national teammate Nagatomo Yuto:
It’s usually done as a term of endearment, but personally I don’t do it and dislike having it done to me.
Anyway, even though I’m a true Yankee fan and never root for the Dodgers because of that, this year I want to see Shohei go all the way and get into the World Series and win!
Thank you, Shohei for giving me something to hope for and for the other HO members for letting me post this.
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Pets make the world a better place. Humans have a less than stellar track record.
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Found this photo by Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse (courtesy of Getty Images) in a New York Times article about the aftermath of Tropical Storm Pulasan in Shanghai. It’s such a beautiful and IMHO rather surreal photograph that I thought it was some sort of painting. Photography is one of the few hobbies I have and wanted to share with you all what I find to be an amazingly stunning photo. Bravo, Mr. Hector Retamal❣️
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Don’t Fall Into the Cynicism Trap. It’s bad for your health.
From the article:
Spread ‘positive gossip.’
We tend to highlight the negative when we gossip about others, Dr. Zaki said. Instead, he said, do the opposite: Spread positive tidbits about someone. Maybe it’s a little-known but admirable fact about that person, he said, or perhaps a kind act you catch them in.
#hopefulskeptic
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Do you think they have a special menu? Do you think Sam gets to continue his vegan and shrimp diet in prison?
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I might have mentioned this before, a YouTube series of the stories of people after they became memes.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I+Accidentally+Became+a+Meme
Here’s Sarim Akhtar’s story:
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There, castle.
Why are you talking that way?
I thought you wanted to.
One of my all time favorite movies and yet another comedic tour de force from Madeline Kahn. Well, from everyone, really, but her and Marty Feldman are PARTICULARLY brilliant, and against this cast, that is really saying something.
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Today I am thinking about the adorable pigs that joyfully accepted the beet greens I fed them from our CSA farm pickup. No possible way those greens would have made us as happy as they were in that moment. 
Those three little pigs!
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Time to wash the windows before the weather turns. Yup, it’s that time of year.
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Pigs are delightful creatures. Smart, funny, kind, and utterly delicious <3
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Well, shoot. Now I’m thinking of my cat nose-schmeared sliding window in my living room (and 2nd BR windows where they can sit on my desk and look out on all of the squirdles and birdies in the yard).
:::Sigh::: Guess I’m adding this to my Honey-Do list.
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I’m in Helene’s path.
The forecasts between what might maybe happen (NOAA, maybe we get 80 mph winds) and Weather.com (hey, might get a bit of thunderstorm activity at 8pm, oops, scuse us, now 10 pm, oops maybe midnight, oopa, scuse us, maybe at 2 a.m. Friday, oops, scuse us, maybe at 4 am Friday) is really weird.
How can so many weather forecasters get it so wrong? I understand that conditions change, but they did so in my line of work, too.
I’d have been fired if I’d been so far off my inside/outside predictions.
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Sorry to hear you’re in her path. You’d think with all the technology at their fingertips they’d get it half right. I do think they might be under fire from higher ups to keep it on the safe side. National news weather people are a joke nowadays and have been for some time. Standing out there with a poncho on, swaying back and forth like it’s hurricane force wind/rain and you see people walking/ driving by in the background.
Stay safe!
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Hope it skirts you and you and yours stay safe!
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Hope you and yours stay safe.
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Thinking of those in the path of Hurricane Helene and hoping for your safety and a minimum of damage to your communities/properties. Take care. 🩵
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