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"Your request for Sidewalk Repair has been received [...] Your request is expected to be completed on or about 10/24/2025 (SLA: 270 Business Days)."

Stop yer whining, in 270 days you'll be complaining somebody covered up yer hole!

Tooters, our after-school program here in the heart of Washington DC has started again. For quite a few years now we've been able to teach Kung Fu, Lion Dance, Dragon Dance to DC kids at super low cost to parents.The kids learn how to train, stay healthy and safe, and pick up drumming skills on Chinese Thunder drums, as well as African Djembe drums-not seen here in this pic. While they do this, they impart solid human qualities on each other. We help, but they do the heavy lifting themselves. I'd love to max out attendance this school year. Mention us, will you, if you know kids or parents in our city? https://www.jowga.org

Saved this sprig from some on-sale kale. Put it in water with the rooting avocado pit. Newly constructed roots reach out. "Hungry", I hear the stalk whispering. I got you little friend.

Nice uppers on this Eddie Bauer made in China hiking shoe I got discounted at BJs. But once the sport shoe got wet the sole broke away and perhaps revealed the reason for the low price. Of many glues I've tried the E6000 glue is doing the job the original Chinese glue could not. That's some high end black silicone automobile gasket covering the seam, very pedestrian of me, I know. Caution: image shows repair of clothing.

This is the current graph for my city's [#DCHealth] #CovidWastewater samples from #CDC's Website today.

Attend to the light colored line with zero data. or no data, or just stops, some time ago. That's our Nation's Capital Covid RNA sample data from the sewers.

Looks like a toddler got in there with a faded orange marker.

This is graphed in number of standard deviations, yea, not super self-explanatory. It's not even labeled on the axis on the site. The CDC site is needlessly wordy, except for graph axis.

I'm masking up again until we can gather data and publish it like a respectable space-faring race of beings.

What would the news story be here even if we had decent reporting?

Tooters, 'sheared ' pins have suddenly appeared at a bridge in Providence. The Gov is demanding to know where ahr the original pins, and why are these newly sheared pins wicked rusty. Also. Gov sez you can cross the river on the good side of the bridge, towards Boston.

Tooters, may we speak about the heating?

I want this marvelous tank, but in the USA if it's not dutifully expensed in a system then there's no discussing it. This is shameful and we can do better.

This tank used to be called a Rotex, is now called a Smartcube, because in 2023, round is square.

Sold Down Under, yet manufactured in Germany, this Swiss army knife of thermal storage is high tech from the 1970's. So we could make it on any continent, at an affordable price, and have our governing bodies rebate us. We just couldn't call it a smartcube. Let's call it a piggy tank.

You would put all your loose heat in there for a rainy day. I don't know if you've heard but rainy days are coming.

Let's get everyone a piggy tank, ok?

Tooters, and Tootees: May I tell you of https://tropicaltidbits.com for hurricane prognostications? NOAA's staid five-day outlook, and major media's regurgitated clickbait won't assist your plans of world domination, but the above PhD crafted site will.

[whispering] ...Tooooters! Gather around quietly. DC flagship store REI Coop has affordable bike innertubes. Please quietly spread the word to wrench and screwdriver owners so as to avoid the price-fixing eye of Sauron.

Snake parkour!

Just gonna scrounge mulberries, tree nuts and dandelions, and bike my way through the unrelenting price madness of the megalopolis until the first frost. Are we still doing that? First frost?

Until we sort out our relationship with our bloodstream viruses, may I suggest Costco Kirkland 2200 furnace filters: $30 for four, for your DIY home or school room filter. They rectangles, not squares but they are valid MERV13, which is usually quite expensive. I heart clean air.

Fished this piston out thanks to my handheld communicator. Still combing through ancient machine shop listings deaf to search bots. Can I fix the engine and survive the 100k time-miles to the world without pistons?