It wasn't much of a weekender. I popped online on Saturday afternoon and mentioned that I wouldn't be online long. Shortly after I came back and settled in for the night, I heard the pop as all those cables that connect "the grid" dropped into the branch creek again. One would think the linemen get tired enough of picking cables out of water to prune the trees near the cables, at least the ones that are dead or leaning ominously over the wires...well, perhaps in summer they enjoy a dip in a cold stream. I thought hopefully that perhaps they'd be out to repair the damage on Sunday morning, since they arrived so promptly last week. No such luck. Only the telephone repairmen had reached a house nearby when I came out this morning; rain fell off and on all day Sunday, all night last night, and it's falling on McDonald's as I type; lots of repair vehicles are on the road, though...and slushy soil is failing to hold down trees either in old-growth forests with little undergrowth, or in town where people have never corrected the long-ago craze for planting isolated trees surrounded by "lawns" of bermudagrass. It looks like being a very long, dull, sweaty, mucky summer, Gentle Readers.
Perhaps we should just let the whole idea of grid-dependent private Internet connections die and move back to the idea of public computer centers for whole neighborhoods. The role of electronic technology in any weather emergency is still to break down, primarily, but at least neighborhoods could share the cost of replacing all that expensive new cable. I've only been saying this for thirty years.
Health News
Polysorbate is not what's making celiac disease stubborn and even fatal. Glyphosate (and now glufosinate) is/are doing that. But polysorbate is not helping anybody deal with the effects of the deadly poisons. The situation is analogous to having a broken leg: You need the bone set and supported if you want to use the leg again, but, meanwhile, you don't want to dangle the leg in the sewer.
Pranks
Even if the computer made up a batch of fictional books to recommend, somebody had to tell it to do that. So the first news story discussed in this post qualifies as a prank.
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