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One of the better movies I’ve seen in a long time and without a doubt the best movie dealing with Vietnam.

Picked this up at an estate sale yesterday. They had others which unfortunately I didn’t pick up.

This is a rather peculiar thread.

Our local record store opened yesterday and I went there late in the day. Only the owner and one other customer was there, and they wore masks. I wore a mask and gloves. I didn’t find the experience particularly enjoyable, especially as it was quite hot and the place is not air conditioned. Looking through the stacks while trying to properly breathe was not easy. It may be awhile before I return there, sad to say.

Based on the current state if “negotiations,” we don’t have to worry. I do t know who is worse, the owners or the union. Frankly, the leadership of both should be replaced. Although other leagues seems to have agreement and plans in place, the problem is that the virus has not been tamed in this country due to the fractured state of our politics. In Europe it has and this has allowed football to return first Germany, then Italy and Spain and even in England. Without unanimity on fighting the spread, the best laid plans, etc. as Burns said.

Cases in our county have been slowly inching up again. As the outbreak in Beijing shows, this is going to be with us for some time, with the fall and winter expected to be bad. I believe that we will see things looking like they did in March and April when we were locked up in our homes. With that in mind, I will be stocking up on PPE to get us through the fall to the spring.

That would have been a great time to be there. I’ve always found the Easter Rebellion and the drive for independence a fascinating topic.

Received my set but need to let it sit in quarantine a few days.

My package just hit Chicago so it should be here soon.

A newly discovered Hemingway story, Pursuit as Happiness, that appeared in the New Yorker. Here’s an interview with Sean Hemingway, Hemingway’s grandson, Ernest Hemingway’s Grandson on an Unpublished Story from the Author’s Archive

There were complaints because their service wasn’t very good in the northeast during the early phases of the Coronavirus. However, since it was the Coronavirus we do have to give them some slack. Their service has returned to normal. People where the Coronavirus is now increasing may have the same issues.

It’s the public broadcaster in Ireland. Raidió Teilifís Éireann or Radio Television of Ireland.

Yes, for number two! Never seen the hose thing, thank goodness.

Think I’ve seen those too.

You mean like these? These were common in Spain in the 60s. When I went to China in the 90s I was amazed to see the same thing.

Unfortunately, I’ve seen people in a certain inebriated state use systems other than toilets in old Yankee Stadium.

I will give that one a try. I did go to a Christian Brothers school when I lived in Uruguay between the ages of 7 and 10.

Paul Desmond - The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings- Mosaic Records

In 2009 I had a week long meeting outside of Dublin; our company had some major manufacturing in Newbridge and Grange Castle. I had the weekend to himself and went into Dublin and wandered all over the great city. Here is one of the photos I took. Probably one of the best I’ve ever taken.

Thanks. Portrait of an Artist is the one I have thought about.

Did you ever read any Joyce. I’ve heard his books are hard.

Unless we are going to provide governmental health care (as many countries do, especially in Europe) and a government guaranteed wage, we need the unions (not the kinds of unions Jim alluded to) more than we’ve probably needed them since the 1930s to protect people from corporations. I’m hoping they make a comeback and with this generation I’m hopeful they will. A few months ago Jim went ballistic (maybe too strong a term) about the boomers and my first thought when he said that, “well, there goes Jim again,” but he was right, our generation has messed things up big time and I’m hoping the generation that is trying to put things right in the future.

I noted that the Union overreacted and we all agree it was an over reaction. As far as the Union tweeting about Doug Jones, what’s the relevance. I obviously don’t agree with the tweet but as far as the Shakeshack brouhaha goes, I don’t see the point. We all know they’re probably a conservative group. That’s not new news.

Let’s not make more of this Shake Shack story than is necessary. The officers were accidentally poisoned, the Union overreacted, then posted that thankfully that they were fine (which is not in Marshall’s article, by the way). It got some play locally and that’s about it. The story hasn’t even made the New York Times so far. Over and done. That the Union retweeted Sessions’ tweet is irrelevant.