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Tue Sep 28 06:00:01 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from ten-thirty to seven. Woke for a bit around one-thirty. Cooler. Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds up to 10 mph. Twenty-minute walk in the morning. Sunny and cool. Half moon high in the blue sky. Trees haven't changed color yet, but a few leaves has fallen; autumn has it's nose under the tent. Saw a chipmunk and a flight of honking geese. Work ---------------------------------------- - ✓ fix CR, HS calling - ✓ start building new hypervisor Home ---------------------------------------- - ✓ 1 PM pick up groceries Vacuumed, took out trash. https://www.metafilter.com/192756/Copying-a-mid-century-stoolmid-14th-century-BCE https://woodenfossils.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/building-a-theban-lattice-stool/ https://woodenfossils.wordpress.com/ > I found this ancient Egyptian stool on the British Museum’s website in early 2020 and fell in love with it. A couple of things pushed me to make a copy – curiosity about the execution of its joinery and a desire to own it, sit on it, and see how it holds up over time. > Lots of googling suggests that Liberty & Co retailed versions of various Theban stools from the late 1880s into the 1920s. Swiss and then Danish designers started around 1900 and carried on through the 1950s. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/five-ways-donald-trump-tried-coup/620157/ > 1. Trump tried to pressure secretaries of state to not certify. > 2. Trump tried to pressure state legislatures to overturn the results. > 3. Trump tried to get the courts to overturn the results. > 4. Trump tried to pressure Mike Pence to overturn the results. > 5. When all else failed, Trump tried to get a mob to overturn the results. Mom says her medical exam went OK. Minutes spent packing: 50 Servings: grains 3/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 3/2, meat 2/3, nuts 1/0.5 Brunch: banana, cucumber, two hot dogs, coffee Afternoon snack: carrots, bean burrito Dinner: potato chips -35

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