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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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It’s 48 heading for 60 and overcast. In fact, according to the widget I’ll get 2 partly sunny days out of the next 10 and that’s it. Yesterday we generated 4.3 KWHs and the m-t-d at 35 is not on track.
Too cloudy to see the moon last night. Looks like I may not see her again until Saturday night. It’s my grandmother’s birthday, she’d be 120 if she were still with us which she’s quite happy she’s not, and many of the Indigenous folks (like Aji’s) call her “Grandmother Moon”. But it would be nice to see her more often than that.
Folks are anxious/upset – as the fascists want us to be – but we’re still truckin’ on. I tried to call my federal elected officials yesterday & this morning. Actually talked to the person in Congressman Womack’s office. Cotton’s & Boozman’s phone lines are mostly busy but I did get through to leave voice mail messages at both. And I did my taxes – online -last night. (Mine are really simple.) Still managed to make a mistake but I caught it and fixed it (had to do an override because I couldn’t find the place where I made the original mistake but at least it did allow me to do an override and I didn’t have to scrap it and start over). So. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
I am not going to do my taxes until I am sure who is running the Treasury Department. I owe the Feds money this year and the last thing I want is for a payment to the US Treasury to get sucked into Melon Husk’s illegal server with no record of my payment!
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 46 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 77. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The moon is not visible to me lately as she is moving around in the middle of the night and at trajectories that are not easy to see during the daytime. I know she is there, though!
The news was so bad yesterday that today cannot possibly be worse. A lawyer who lied to try to stop vote counting in 2020 is now the Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy Jr is going to be HHS Secretary and a literal foreign agent is going to be the Director of National Intelligence. I am so glad that I don’t have young children – schools are going to be deadly. Ha! What am I saying? There will not be any public schools in a few years and certainly no one to enforce rules related to schools.
I finished an accounting project this morning and I am going to set aside my to-do list and take the rest of the day off.
See all y’all later!