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Thu Jun 18 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven. Woke briefly around five. High of eighty-six and sunny today. Work ---------------------------------------- - 10 AM business team meeting Done. - Review phase 1 Dell invoice Done. Looks OK; just waiting on reshipment of central monitors. - Follow up with Entrata about security deposits, rents Done. - Look at unit types, amenities for Entrata phase three migration Some. - Think about tablets, let Julie and Heidi know Not completely. Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch. Blue sky, a few whispy clouds. Warm. Home ---------------------------------------- - Instacart delivery 3–5 PM Done. Vacuumed. Played a little with animation in GrafX2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint#Uses > The webcomic "Unicorn Jelly" by Jennifer Diane Reitz was completed over the course of three years using Deluxe Paint 2, one panel posted every night at midnight. https://unicornjelly.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius "Hermann the German" > In the autumn of AD 9, the 25-year-old Arminius brought to Varus a false report of rebellion in northern Germany. He persuaded Varus to divert the three legions under his command (composed of the 17th, 18th, and 19th legions, plus three cavalry detachments and six cohorts of auxiliaries), which were at the time marching to winter quarters, to suppress the rebellion. Varus and his legions marched right into the trap that Arminius had set for them near Kalkriese. Arminius' tribe, the Cherusci, and their allies the Marsi, Chatti, Bructeri, Chauci, and Sicambri (five out of at least fifty Germanic tribes at the time)[9] ambushed and annihilated Varus' entire army, totaling over 20,000 men, as it marched along a narrow road through a dense forest. Recent archaeological finds show the long-debated location of the three-day battle was almost certainly near Kalkriese Hill, about 20 km north of present-day Osnabrück. When defeat was certain, Varus committed suicide by falling on his sword. The battle was one of the most devastating defeats Rome suffered in its history. Arminius' success in destroying three entire legions and driving the Romans out of Germany marked a high point of Germanic power for centuries. Roman attempts to reconquer Germania failed, although they did eventually manage to break Arminius' carefully coordinated alliance. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/trump-administration-paid-millions-for-test-tubes-got-unusable-mini-soda-bottles/ Though incompetent and wasteful, it's hard to fault the administration for trying to do the right thing for once (assuming Fillakit isn't owned by somebody crony). Chatted with Jay on Signal for a while. The COVID outlook for county looks bad. https://covidactnow.org/us/wa/county/benton_county/?s=51764 https://www.traverseticker.com/news/when-northern-michigan-bought-things-with-traverse-dollars/ > According to DepressionScrip.com, the fact that there was little money in the hands of the people and there was great uncertainty about the prospects of getting more of it, people tended to hoard whatever money they did have. So to ensure wide distribution and use, the dollars had to be used on a weekly basis or they would lose value. > So the stamps were a way to make sure the Traverse Dollars were circulated. According to Cathy Schmitt, who first brought them to The Ticker’s attention, the money would decay by two cents a day unless you put a two-cent stamp on it and signed and dated it. So the incentive was to spend as fast as you could, she says. > Merchants bought the stamps from the city treasurer, then attached them to the Traverse Dollars when consumers used them. “Every merchant supplied a stamp and after twenty stamps, the scrip could be turned in for a real dollar,” Fidler notes. The system seemed to work fairly well, though apparently there were some problems with the stamps falling off. > There are sound arguments for creating and using a local currency. By its very nature, local money tends to stay close to home. Traverse Dollars could not be used elsewhere, meaning local stores and merchants would be the ones to benefiting. US tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 22 19 23 22 23 23 20 20 25 20 22 24 20 20 17 (today) 3-day avg: 21 23 22 22 19 US new deaths: 1015 → 909 → 1100 → 746 → 453 → 640 → 941 → 933 → 751 → 695 → 358 → 375 → 713 → 782 → 695 (today) 3-day avg: 1008 613 875 476 730 MI tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 75 4 163 25 36 54 1 54 71 80 64 340 62 63 1 (today) 3-day avg: 81 38 42 161 42 MI new deaths: 25 → 260 → 36 → 4 → 17 → 31 → 12 → 30 → 5 → 23 → 3 → 1 → 17 → 2 → 25 (today) 3-day avg: 107 17 16 9 15 Oakland county new deaths: 4 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 2 → 1 → 4 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 (today) 3-day avg: 2 1 2 1 1 Beaumont 5/21: COVID-19 patients: 255; COVID-19 ICU patients: 75; all patients bed occupancy: 76% Beaumont 5/25: COVID-19 patients: 215; COVID-19 ICU patients: 63; all patients bed occupancy: 57% Beaumont 5/28: COVID-19 patients: 227; COVID-19 ICU patients: 70; all patients bed occupancy: 68% Beaumont 6/01: COVID-19 patients: 178; COVID-19 ICU patients: 70; all patients bed occupancy: 61% Beaumont 6/04: COVID-19 patients: 163; COVID-19 ICU patients: 67; all patients bed occupancy: 65% Beaumont 6/08: COVID-19 patients: 130; COVID-19 ICU patients: 54; all patients bed occupancy: 55% Beaumont 6/11: COVID-19 patients: 132; COVID-19 ICU patients: 64; all patients bed occupancy: 70% Beaumont 6/15: COVID-19 patients: 114; COVID-19 ICU patients: 59; all patients bed occupancy: 63% Beaumont 6/18: COVID-19 patients: 117; COVID-19 ICU patients: 57; all patients bed occupancy: 72% HCC Region 2 North 6/17: in critical 55, on ventilators 30, inpatients 91 HCC Region 2 North 6/18: in critical 44, on ventilators 23, inpatients 89 Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: orange, egg wrap, coffee Lunch: salami wrap, carrots Dinner: Doritos -28

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