What was the protest about? I don't know, I think promoting solar power, there were electric and hybrid cars circling the block with signs and noise. No flags are flying over the House or Senate, so congress was not meeting. (House of Representatives is on the right, Senate is on the left from this view.)
What Aristotle understood, that HWSNBN and Brainworm don't? The difference between correlation and causation. Aristotle used a formula. If all A are B, and all B are C, then all A are C = causation. If some A are B, and all B are C, not all A are C - there is a correlation, in that some A may be C, but not all. If they had done well in a statistics, research science, or classical logic class they would have learned this. Just because children born to mothers who took Tylenol while pregnant are diagnosed with autism at a higher rate, does not mean that tylenol causes autism. Autism has been around much longer than Tylenol.
Why were my Monday and Tuesday morning posts late? Monday's because I scheduled it for Tuesday, opps! I fixed it, but not until it had been Monday for half a day in some parts of the world. Tuesday's was scheduled for mid-morning, not midnight in my local timezone. Sorry, I will try to double check this in the future.
Where have I been this week? On Friday I decided I needed to get out of the house, and I needed a long walk, so I walked to the subway, took the train into the city, and spent a couple of hours strolling one of the world's great museums. The Farmers Market, the pool, the Pharmacy. A little drive around old town north. The community center for a meeting with the arts group, planning for next year. Dyke Marsh for a walk along the Potomac. Across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (in the convertible with the top down) to Maryland for a walk in National Harbor. Out to lunch with my sweet bear, and then to see the Downton Abbey Movie.
When is the next adventure? In a couple of weeks the power will be off in the condo for several hours to update the "electrical switchgear" in a mechanical room far below us. We are going to Williamsburg for a couple of days. We will be away the day the work is being done.
What travel planning have I been doing? I finished booking hotels for the grand adventure taking place next spring, booking hotels in Rome and Vienna. In Rome we have a great location, a few minutes walk from St. Peters. In Vienna, we are out a little out of the way, but across the street from a subway line. Several hotels we were interested in were sold out and others were $500-$600 a night- strange for that time of the year. A Google search revealed that the Eurovision Semi Finals are taking place in Vienna while we are there, with the grand finale just after we leave town.
What have I been up to in the kitchen this week? Poultryman's pie - like a shepards pie, but made with chicken. I poached a whole chicken and made chicken soup - and two quarts of rich stock. A simple lasagna, Garfield was right it is one of the pillars of life.
What is the blog quote of the week? Dora at Having Coffee With Peppy, "10. Kill, Confession time...I thought of killing a few people. But never have. (I) Came to the conclusion that they didn't deserve to rest in peace."
What is the theme song of the week? It's late September, and I miss going back to school, even after all these years. I remember this one playing in CKLW the rock station out of Windsor Ontario that provided the soundtrack of my teenage years.
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