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Update #2:Hey, the ducks are back, and just hanging out on my lawn. I figured I needed a picture. And yes, this is the sort of thing that delays my getting started on work some mornings. But it also makes me a happier Dave, and that’s a good thing, I think.
Update: Cool! The UPS guy just showed up with a box from Amazon.com. I was a little confused, since I was pretty sure I hadn’t ordered anything recently, but when I open it up, I see it’s a package from a reader who decided to get me some goodies off my wish-list becuase he’d enjoyed reading Mead Made Easy and had made some crazy-good mead that made him happy. Thanks for the goodies, Dirk!
- The Saints won last night’s preseason game, and it was a fun game (but cold out there, as happens in May). Tim Christman and Chris Chavez both pitched, and did okay (Chavez gave up a dinger, but still closed out the game), and some familiar faces had good at-bats. Misha Dworkin hit a pair of homers. There’s a new-guy to keep our eyes on. It’s interesting watching my schedule change with the start of baseball, too. If it weren’t for the cold I’m still fighting off, I was ready to be up early today, but since I wasn’t feeling good, I slept an extra four hours, and woke up feeling almost human. I’m running late now, but I’m happy. And waking up clear-headed means I have a plan for the work that needs to be done today.
- The weather today is a big change from yesterday morning. When I woke up yesterday morning, it was still nearly 80 inside, and around 70 outside. Yesterday evening at the ball-game a cold northwest wind picked up, and when I woke up this morning, my thermometer said 40. Quite a change, but I sleep a lot better in the cold than in the hot, and that may have been another part of why I managed the extra four hours of sleep this morning.
- Also this morning, as I woke up, I got to see a mallard duck and drake sitting below my birdfeeders, munching on the seeds dropped by all the other birds. I was a little surprised, but it’s cool to have another bird on the list. They seemed to be enjoying the rain.
- The Strib has a fairly nice obituary for Apache Plaza. I was by there yesterday, as I went to Cub to stock up on things for tailgating, and there’s nothing left but a pile of rubble. [strib]
- Reuters looks at the Cost of Airport Security Tech but misses the point completely. The article goes on and on about passenger identification, but identifying passengers doesn’t help security at all unless you already have a list of terrorists. [wired]
- Bruce Schneier wants to Curb electronic surveillance abuses, saying
The more surveillance technologies that require a warrant before use, the safer we all are.