Homer's Travels: Weekly Ephemera #131

Sunday, February 02, 2025

Weekly Ephemera #131

"I will not give into the lies.
I will not give into the fear."
      - Jim Acosta
        ex-CNN correspondent/anchor
  • I have spent most of this week doomscrolling.  I have spent too much time on Bluesky watching our great nation starting to corrode and crumble in darkness.
  • On Tuesday I had an MRI taken of my abdomen to check for lesions in my prostate.  None were found (yay).  I am not a claustrophobic person most of the time but after nearly an hour in the tight spaces of the MRI machine, I was getting antsy.
  • Wednesday was the Lunar New Year.  Happy year of the snake everyone!
  • Saturday was the first day of February which is kinda blowing my mind.  Where did January go?
  • I walked three times this week for a total of 30.8 miles (49.6 km).  Next week I plan to walk twice.
  • My television watching this week was of a scientific nature.  Namely, I watched episodes of "Nova".  I watched one on Quantum discoveries, one on Astrophysical discoveries, and several on the different planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system.  In my early years I had most of this type of knowledge memorized.  I was fascinated with it.  But over the last few decades I have not kept up with the cutting edge research.  These episodes helped bring me up to speed.
  • In a week the Wife and I will be traveling to our next international destination.  It's somewhere I've been before - Guatemala.  I intend to post about the upcoming trip later this week.  Stand by.
Another of the old pictures my cousin sent me:
My cousin's sixth birthday.  She is on the right.  My brother is left of her.  I am the three and
a half year old covering his face on the left.  My Mom is standing behind me.
1967, our house, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.


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