Unintended consequences Part Dos - who can read this whole blog

YUP - seems all of this clean air do to Corvid19 is having scientists warn you that this summer could be a prime time for melanomas as the sun is no longer being filtered by garbage in the air and more sunburns are predicted.

I mean look at Las Angeles before and after Corvid19 hit.  AMAZING  Look at how clean the air is now

Meanwhile an unintended consequences was our deck that faces due south.  When the wind is from the north and it's sunny our corner is 20-25 degrees warmer then the air 10 feet away.  Yesterday it was about 53 and our corner was hitting 79.  AWESOME 

Of course when it's 85 in the summer it about 105 (thus the screen in porch).   Gus was very very happy 

OH - gotta say hi to the readers from Turkmenistan who SEEM to have zero cases of Corvid19.  hmmmmmmm   be VERY careful my friends - Corvid19 knows no boundaries.  It's in your country.

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MEANWHILE the Corvid10 deniers are protesting to open up the economy which is like jumping out of a plane and saying the parachute has slowed you down enough, lets get rid if it 

It's like this piece from the really good adult space comedy on HBO,  Avenue 5.

The the people on the space cruise believe being stuck on a space cruiser for 8 years is a hoax and it's only a reality show.  DJ and I love this dark comedy.

https://youtu.be/skXaeucDYHo

  

and THAT is America right now and the ignorant protesters that will ascend on Wisconsin's capitol Friday.  Freaking morons

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By buddy Elweed all of a sudden has more money then he has ever had before.  WHY?  40 years ago he was an LTE for the State and they were taking out $$ every check for retirement which infuriated him.  "I needed money for shoes not some "retirement"  50 years from now.

But he never did anything.  He would get mail and toss it out as fake news for 40+ years.  Well, all of a sudden he decided to become a grown-up and actually looked at the mail.  He called me last week when he actually looked at the mail.  WHAT?    THAT MUCH?   Over 10K?  Which is a lot ofr somebody 200% below poverty for decades.

Then he finally did his taxes for the last 3 years (200% below poverty so he gets a LOT back)  AND he is getting a stimulus check.  Plus he is going to retire to get social security so he will not have to ride the infected bus to work every day . . . his job only paid him $8 an hour to clean other peoples filth for 25 hours work.

I had to take him to the bank Saturday as he got his VERY FIRST debit card.  I had to show him how to use it.

This was East Wash in Madison at 11:00 in the morning on Saturday. 

OH - we both wore masks.  I believe he is the most sterile person I know.  A germ-a-phob to begin with.

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Saturday night I broke open a new vodka I got from Door County last year. Fieldnotes.

I was making a dirty martini (it's a quick and dirty drunk  LOL) and before I made the drink had a taste testing.  WOW - curious.  Both are potato vodkas which I like more then corn vodka.

Luksusowa is crisp and sharp while Fieldnotes was . .  hmmmmmm   interesting . . . smooth, buttery and an good taste of . . . what is that?  Pine?  Spruce? 

It was HORRIBLE in a dirty martini.  OMG I tossed it out and wasted good olive juice (hard to come by).  Great for shots but in a drink?   not so much.

Oh  a relative suggested that instead of Captain Morgan Spice Rum I try Appleton Estate Signature Blend Rum. 

It's REALLY good and NO - we are not becoming alcoholics . . . . .  at least not any more then we were before. Actually I believe liqueur sales are way up in America doing these trying times.

BTW - happy 420.

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And then there is the hair cut issue during Corvid19.   We are one episode away from completing all 7 seasons on Parks and Recreation.   I mention this as in the penultimate episode Sam Elliot has a saying that I can totally live my life too.

"When my hair feels it's journey is over, it sheds itself. 

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Want to have fun watching Trumps misleading and confusing campaign pressers?  

   

And seriously - when has an American President every actually backed protesters of State government.  He tells governors that Covid19 is NOT a federal government problem and it 's all a State problem  Not HIS problem.  The Federal Government is not here to help in National Disasters, it's a State issue.

THEN he eggs on protesters who are anti State Government.  He is NOT the President of the United States.  He is the President of his BRAIN. 

The blue wave will spank him in the ass.

OH - one last thing - I was looking at online sports book to see what they were offering, if anything.

Of course politics

Th Democrats party is the odds on Favorite to win the White house

Democrats -105
Republicans -125

Bidens VP
Harris  +200
Klobucher +300
Whitmer +500
Warren +700  (I got +950 Friday) I bet $5 to win $47.50
Abrams +1000

Which Party Will Win The Popular Vote In The 2020 Presidential Election?
Democrats -275

And The left winning the White House, Senate AND House is not out of the realm of possibility  +150.   Thank you Donald.

HOWEVER - the big news was that I spotted a weather bet.

I looked last Tuesday and it was "will the temperature at Chicago O'hare be above or below 43 degrees at 5:51 on Thursday".  WELL - being a weather geek with all sorts of information at my hands I could not turn this down.

I looked and said YES - OVER.  I looked at the wind from the west so no breeze off the lake and a stable air mass.   Easy money   $2!!!

Thursday comes and I see I will win.  I log on about 8:00 and  I LOST!  WHAT?   I look at NOAA Chicago O'hare at 5:51PM and it was 45 degrees.

I contact the sports book and show them links to NOAA and it took about 15 minutes.  I apologized that I was taking their time with a $2 bet but it was the principle of the thing.

YUP - I DID win and got my money . . . . . and the weather bets are no longer available.

You CAN bet on simulated NFL games and Darts.  WOW. 

    Nuff said today