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missing Nathan

Nathan Wei, late of Frederick, Maryland, died of gastric cancer two years ago March at age 68. His wife held his memorial service at his packed house in Laytonsville just about two years ago. She asked the men to wear bowties, which Nathan so liked to sport when he had to wear a tie (heContinue reading “missing Nathan”

no stinkin’ masks

Howie Carr of the Boston herald sorta agrees with me and takes it a little further. Coronavirus face masks in Massachusetts: Howie Carr says ‘We don’t need no stinkin’ masks’ By HOWIE CARR | howard.carr@medianewsgroup.com | Boston HeraldPUBLISHED: May 5, 2020 at 4:32 p.m. | UPDATED: May 6, 2020 at 7:55 a.m. “I have emphysema.” That’s what I’m going to tell theContinue reading “no stinkin’ masks”

News for Sara

Sara McCoy was a rheumatology fellow at UofM, coming from Mayo Clinic and finishing in ’15. She took a job at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as she said her labor-lawyer husband was shut out of the Michigan market by the influence of Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. So sad she had to go. Everyone, includingContinue reading “News for Sara”

Here Comes My Career

I’ve been having a thing with my high school English teacher. She was quite the babe back in the late 60s at Vicksburg High and I was maybe her pet, but nothing ever progressed then like you read about now. I went looking for her to find a discerning reader for my new blog. Also,Continue reading “Here Comes My Career”

for Annie Bananie

mask 2

Kathy got her mask today. Now we’re really ready. Here we come Gov. Bimbo!

masks

You know from my 4/16 post “who was that masked man?” how I feel about masks for the general public in a corona-poor environment. So when our Governor Bimbo came out and declared masks for all in public, I had to go out and get one. No report on its filtering capacity

wifey’s turn

My sweetheart is pretty amazing. Not only is she tall , athletic, and beautiful, but she has one more advanced degree than me, is a “push-hard” doctor (PhD), unlike her “muddle through” (MD) husband. As a senior scientist for NASA, she helped put together the space station and plan missions to Mars. She’s now aContinue reading “wifey’s turn”

smoke ’em if you got ’em?

Back on March 19, I posted “smokin’ corona” (https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/theviewfromharbal.com/326). Inspired by meeting some old girlfriends outside the hospital by the bus stop for a “break”, I had to wonder if their habit of periodically bathing their lungs with toxic tobacco smoke might even be protecting them from Mr. corona. Ultimately I concluded alas no. PatientsContinue reading “smoke ’em if you got ’em?”

how clean?

Distillers from all over the country are converting their operations from making perfectly good and much needed booze into making hand sanitizer. I’d first heard this as a joke, directed at entrepreneurs converting their operations into COVID-19 activities. I first became aware of it when my favorite whiskey distiller, Traverse City Bay Whiskey, sent meContinue reading “how clean?”