Not this kind of car, though. It just won’t do.
I’m going mad here. I’ve got limited mobility — I’m supposed to take it easy, but I can limp around, and I’m able to drive, but I have limited access to a car (my wife needs it to go to work), and I’m only good for short walks. That means I’m more or less confined to my house. I get out twice a week to go to the lab because I need to take care of the animals, but otherwise I’m bouncing off the walls.
This weekend that got translated into sitting in my home office and reorganizing. My computers have benefitted, with all the cables getting tidied and accumulated gadgets getting purged and stored away. I am much more efficient at sitting quietly and staying out of mischief, which I am finding frustrating. So I’m fantasizing about escape.
Before getting laid up, I was planning a day trip to Granite Falls, about an hour drive away from me. The route would follow the Minnesota River, and there are parks and wildlife management areas all along the way, that are probably full of spiders. At the end of the drive there’s something called the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, which looks interesting. The plan was to make frequent stops and hike around, maybe a picnic, that sort of thing…which is off limits right now. I’ve lived here for 25 years and never even knew about this museum! But table that for now.
Another thing I was looking into was our regional creationist group, the Twin Cities Creation Science Association, a dreary, tedious group of Christian weirdos who have found a home in Minnesota. I should probably spend some time dismantling the local nonsense. I did see that the Christian twit, Brian Lauer, is doing a YouTube debate next week — I can spectate that! And maybe add some commentary. Unfortunately, it’s organized by the odious Donny Budinsky, so it’s not going to be particularly informative.
More interestingly, they’re planning a creationist trip to Como Zoo. I love Como Zoo! I could see joining their little group, documenting (not disrupting) their absurdities, and spending a lovely afternoon strolling through a very pretty park. That’s on 19 August, about a month away, so I can hope to be a little more mobile by then. I’m meeting with my orthopedist on Tuesday, so we’ll see what she says about expanding my activities a bit more.
I have high hopes for my doctor’s appointment this week. If she tells me I have to stay off my feet longer, well…my office is going to be incredibly tidy and shiny.
Maybe tell muslim creationists to attend? Their creationism does not follow the playbook fir xian creationism, so they could start quarreling with each other about the details.
Was Adam a giant, or human-sized? Was Lucifer involved? Was Adam made from clay, or another substance?
You should offer to drive a bussload of serious muslim fundamentalists to the place, it would be beautiful, like a head-on train collision!
I wish I could help but I too am infested with stir-crazy that I can’t find a solution for. Stuck on my parent’s couch, living with them while separated from my wife, no access to my computer and trying to replace it with my phone as much as I can (blogging on WordPress on my phone is kind of miserable and my life stress has stolen my voice while I wait). Since a parent is a hoarder there is almost no room for any of my stuff. I almost vibrate with stir-crazy. At least I found room for my Xbox but sharing the TV is complicated.
That aircraft museum certainly looks interesting, but is it normal for places like that to say they exist to promote patriotism in modern Americans?
Museum: The patriotic lesson would be “do not trust the top brass to get things right. Insist on backup plans being there from the start”.
If I visited that aircraft museum I would ask why USAAF (of the era) had not developed rocket-assisted take off, so the B-25s could take off from the ship a day too early with enough fuel to bomb Tokyo and have enough reserves to reach safety.
And I would ask why the perfectly good P-39 was not provided with a high-velocity cannon, and a supercharger, so it could fulfill its potential.
I would ask why the fighter aircraft only got extra fuel tanks as an afterthought, once Luftwaffe had proven the bombers could not survive unescorted.
@4 birger
? The P-39 was fitted with both supercharger and cannon (straight out the nose with the engine behind the pilot).
It’s piteous when one has no books left to read, no movies left to watch, no games left to play.
No comics to read, no new foods to cook! No people with whom to chat, no videos to make, no posts to post.
(Adaptation is needful, depression is not)
[can’t help it]
https://mashable.com/article/skyrim-arrow-in-the-knee-meme-history
BTW, DJT has just published an AI-generated video of Obama being arrested.
Somebody is crazy.