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I had a professor like that last semester. Fully masked up throughout every single class. He came for beers with us after the last class of the semester and it was so strange to see the bottom 2/3 of his face. Speaking of out for beers, anyone want to go to La Cabra or Levante?

Napa wine train from last week

My lifelong dream has been to drive a train......

I saw a bridge.

I don't know if I would say irresponsible, but I get what you're saying. It seemed like a "hedge your bets" kind of situation from the doc and the most practical thing was to start antibiotics to see if it would knock it out rather than waste time or go through a ton of tests which may or may not be conclusive and take a bunch of time. It really has got to be hard to be a doctor because I get the feeling that the answer that they want to give most of the time is "it depends" but a sick person absolutely doesn't want to hear that and has an expectation that a doctor knows everything 100% of the time and can fix them.

Attaching it to the truck on the front like a snow plow would be pretty grate

Interesting Covid related thing that happened to me yesterday. I went to the shore two weeks ago and when I got back I started to feel not so great. Cough, congestion, runny nose, post nasal drip, sore throat, all the annoyances. It wasn't horrible but I definitely spent the long weekend mostly sleeping. So it's still lingering yesterday and I decide to make a doctor's appointment. 1. Out of an absolute abundance of caution on Friday I went to CVS for a covid test. it came back negative. 2. It was pure luck that they took me at all because I made the appointment online and if they had known I was coming in for a respiratory illness they would not have accepted me. "We don't see sick patients here at the office right now". Luckily it was a good doctor and he ended up seeing me. 3. So this doctor checks me out, listens to all my symptoms, I reiterate that I had the vaccine, I had a negative covid test and that I did not have a fever and I never lost taste or smell. He then tells me that the vaccine is only 95% effective, and we don't have a lot of data on it yet so there's still a 5% chance and in addition to that it had been a few days and since I had the vaccine I might not be shedding much virus and that the test is only as good as how much virus hits the swab. Also he mentioned that we don't have data on false positives or false negatives. Long story short he said that with these types of symptoms the default is to assume it's Covid at this point, but in case its not he gave me some antibiotics. I think this just kind of illustrates that our medical system has been absolutely rocked by this pandemic and at the end of the day what we don't know far outweighs what we do know. PS The medicine is working and I feel better already.

Has anyone thought about putting a coat of protective paint over all the junk that's currently on the chair to kind of preserve it and avoid a lot of work?

Heat is back on after breaking down and using the AC last week.

Dispensary*

I saw a few people in grocery stores walking around with masks on their chin. In the mask vs no mask debate this is a whole new level.

I would prefer if he put wheels and a hitch on it so that he can offer towed rides when he cuts those lines.

I just ran into a Giant a little while ago. Muscle memory had me pop a mask on as I walked in. Saw half a dozen unmasked folks and decided to try out this newfound freedom. Definitely in the minority but it was kind of nice.

In Narberth

The bike shop I went to yesterday required masks and they were only letting a few people in at a time, enforced by a locked door so you had to wait on the sidewalk

Well if anything at all happens they only have 6 months to figure it out and implement it before we all show up there again.

I saw a guy biking on the trail last night with a bandanna around his face and I thought, "no matter how much it doesn't make sense to be masked in certain situations there will always be people who do it". Less than a minute later I slammed into a swarm of gnats so thick I heard them ticking off my helmet and had to look down to keep them out of my face. Moral of the story, I'm not going to judge maskers, they might know something I don't.

What do you guys think of the question on the ballot this Tuesday about making sure the state legislature has power in terms of emergency declarations? https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Pages/Joint-Resolution-2021-1.aspx

Top notch film

Interesting Read https://www.5280.com/2019/11/a-complete-list-of-everything-alterra-mountain-company-owns/

To a non skiing management group though they probably don't quite care about that and would not be able to quantify any kind of return so it'll get skipped over.

But would Blue's hotel have a ski through tunnel? Or a hot tub on the roof?

Beaver Stadium has a few on the ground level in the really old bathrooms. A bar in State College has a stainless steel angular trough as well.

I just turned my heat back on