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Thu Jul 16 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from ten-thirty to seven. Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Ten-minute walk in the morning, in the rain. Not unpleasant. Work ---------------------------------------- - 10 AM business team meeting Done. - Talk to Bob about GL codes for catalog items Done. - Labor list for Bob Done. - Voicemail, IVR for Jim, portal Done. - Yet more Dell invoices No. - Send more RentPayment forms to deactivate phases seven+ No. - Have FL swap out their router No. Home ---------------------------------------- - Pixel art? Done. Changed sheets. Drew a black pudding I'm slightly happier with than the first two versions. https://sailingdog.org/sail-freight-projects-around-the-world/ > Dragonfly Sail Transport Co. is a Michigan based business offering carbon neutral shipping options to harbor towns on northern Lake Michigan. > Currently, they’re using one boat to transport local products up, down, or across Grand Traverse Bay by sail power. If you’re in the Lake Michigan area, check them out, they’re always looking for more partners! > More Info: http://www.dragonflysailtransport.com/ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html > 1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait of the pagan goddess Venus, inscribed backwards SUNEV for use as a signet ring by the owner. Curiously... > 2) ...around the ten-sided ring is crudely inscribed the identity of a later Christian owner, "Senicianus" who it proclaims with spelling errors "lives in god" (vivas in deo). A ring passing from pagan to Christian hands - certainly possible in the 4th century - but remarkably... > 3)... at a temple to the mysterious British god “Nodens” 80 miles away in Lydney, Gloucestershire, a lead curse tablet (defixio) was later discovered. On the tablet a man named “Silvianus” complains that his gold ring was stolen and he suspects “Senicianus” was the culprit! ... > 4) Silvianus deposited the curse tablet and donated at the temple half the value of his lost ring, in the hope that the gods would "permit no good health to Senicianus." In 1929 the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler would make a connection between this curse and the gold ring... > 5) Wheeler consulted a certain young J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, to work on the etymology of the curious deity Nodens and explore the possible connections with the enigmatic Roman gold ring... > 6) Soon afterwards Tolkien would begin creating his legendarium of Middle-earth with both “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” revolving around the magical, golden and often-stolen One Ring that grants the wearer invisibility. Had Tolkien been inspired by the Silvianus ring? US tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 13 12 15 11 11 12 10 12 12 10 12 12 12 12 12 (today) 3-day avg: 13 11 11 11 12 US new deaths: 527 → 634 → 306 → 209 → 242 → 911 → 897 → 867 → 854 → 757 → 476 → 327 → 736 → 855 → 977 (today) 3-day avg: 489 454 873 520 856 MI tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 40 47 54 46 38 27 36 46 37 40 54 41 31 33 29 (today) 3-day avg: 47 37 40 45 31 MI new deaths: 14 → 3 → 3 → 0 → 3 → 30 → 11 → 9 → 14 → 28 → 1 → 7 → 5 → 4 → 18 (today) 3-day avg: 7 11 11 12 9 Oakland county new deaths: 2 → 2 → 1 → 0 → 0 → 3 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 2 → 1 → 0 → 0 → 1 (today) 3-day avg: 2 1 0 1 0 Beaumont 06/11: COVID-19 patients: 132; COVID-19 ICU patients: 64; all patients bed occupancy: 70% Beaumont 06/15: COVID-19 patients: 114; COVID-19 ICU patients: 59; all patients bed occupancy: 63% Beaumont 06/18: COVID-19 patients: 117; COVID-19 ICU patients: 57; all patients bed occupancy: 72% Beaumont 06/22: COVID-19 patients: 122; COVID-19 ICU patients: 56; all patients bed occupancy: 64% Beaumont 06/25: COVID-19 patients: 123; COVID-19 ICU patients: 51; all patients bed occupancy: 71% Beaumont 06/29: COVID-19 patients: 121; COVID-19 ICU patients: 49; all patients bed occupancy: 66% Beaumont 07/02: COVID-19 patients: 137; COVID-19 ICU patients: 61; all patients bed occupancy: 72% Beaumont 07/06: COVID-19 patients: 115; COVID-19 ICU patients: 45; all patients bed occupancy: 61% Beaumont 07/13: COVID-19 patients: 139; COVID-19 ICU patients: 49; all patients bed occupancy: 68% Beaumont 07/16: COVID-19 patients: 179; COVID-19 ICU patients: 56; all patients bed occupancy: 71% HCC Region 2 North 06/26: in critical 55, on ventilators 39, inpatients 84 HCC Region 2 North 06/29: in critical 44, on ventilators 32, inpatients 78 HCC Region 2 North 07/01: in critical 56, on ventilators 34, inpatients 82 HCC Region 2 North 07/02: in critical 49, on ventilators 30, inpatients 82 HCC Region 2 North 07/06: in critical 45, on ventilators 35, inpatients 78 HCC Region 2 North 07/07: in critical 43, on ventilators 32, inpatients 82 HCC Region 2 North 07/09: in critical 36, on ventilators 33, inpatients 96 HCC Region 2 North 07/13: in critical 38, on ventilators 39, inpatients 119 HCC Region 2 North 07/15: in critical 44, on ventilators 31, inpatients 132 Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: coffee Lunch: carrots, banana, orange, wrap with eggs and avocado Dinner: Cheetos -33 113/67

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