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October 5 - 6 and [238]

5 de octubre

@ 01:25 - 55 calm, cooling degrees by moonlight. I took a nap at sunset and visited the afternoon in Thailand. It's 31 degrees at 14:28 in Mahasarakham. Saturday will rain all day with a steady temp of 23.

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—The use of scientific jargon and community norms to cloak or hide a political, ideological, or financial agenda within the appearance of legitimate scientific research. This may include the use of technical language, difficult-to-understand graphs and charts, or seemingly scientific data presented as empirical evidence to lend credibility to the claims being made. Cloaked science may be seeded onto public preprint servers, in data repositories, journals, or publications with lax review standards, through press releases, or by baiting journalists who may not be able to scrutinize the claims thoroughly.

This definition builds upon Jessie Daniel's research on cloaked websites, which she describes as "sites published by individuals or groups who conceal authorship in order to disguise deliberately a hidden political agenda.

10:00 and 54 degrees. I'm actually awake. What more do you want? I'm out of coffee.

Snow in the forecast for next Tuesday.

I had no problem with the stairs today. A good sign. I went to visit friends and managed to get a coffee. Kathy gave me her chocolate pudding on raspberry chocolate cake today.

Willie announced that John Walker (who was very active in the Senior Center) had a massive heart attack while hiking in Utah. At our age Death walks beside us.

14:10 and 75 degrees. My temp is 96.8; it was 97.2 this morning. Time for oolong with lavender.

It got up to 81. Still warm inside as I decided to fry up some potato pancakes. This time I did them right. Ate one with a pork patty just now.

65 degrees at 8 pm. Going down to 45. Today should've been the last day of summer.

Picked a marigold, a carnation; gleaned some lavender. I hope to glean what I can this week.

6 de octubre

65 degrees at 15:32. So uncomfortably warm in my place. I have the fan on.

Went to OFF with Dalton to buy groceries. I got distracted and didn't catch an error in how something was rung up. Out $5 because it's a long walk back. I did remember to buy coffee.

Jazzing with Officer Jones

bebop
coffee with a cop
as we drink the brew
I ask what's up
a warrant for you
if you don't sober up
so with one quick chop
I bop the cop

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.238] (6.oktober.2021)

To Missbusta07: "As much as life sucks for me right now it could've been worse.

I'm not much of a risk taker. I've battled low self-esteem all my life. But... I went to Kansas rather than stay home and that led to Costa Rica that led to small town Kansas and Nebraska that led to ... a mistake ... but I wasn't comatose for those 20 years even if work was a disaster ... but that led to writing and Oklahoma. Even homelessness taught me something and that led to Montana that led to Costa Rica and learning how to travel and now after 43 countries and being put on pause for 20 months I'm old, worn out, and not sure whether to zig or zag.

But if I hadn't gotten out of my comfort zone I'd still be riding my tricycle around the block where I grew up. My sister still lives there."

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