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And it came to pass last Friday, that there went out a decree from President Schlissel that all of U of M faculty shall be vaxed.  By start of classes August 30th.  Regardless of what, where, or how they taught.  Or even if they taught.  My dear wife, who must get one more term underContinue reading “vax fax”

I hadn’t thought about Kinky Friedman – the Kinkster – for a long time.  We’d had a CD stuck into the player in our Wrangler for years.  Today, it seemed to spring to life.  I guess all those jostlings on the back roads knocked it back into place.  And who were we trying to listenContinue reading “the Kinkster”

Old home week* got even more fun, if that could be possible, when I read Kathy Forsythe’s e-mail Saturday morning asking “Do you have a blog?”.  Kathy, editor of the South County News, is writing a story for the August issue about Vicksburg and Vicksburg-connected folks who had self-published their books.  Kathy, VHS class ofContinue reading “SCN again”

My new dear friend, Judy, a Vicksburg classmate, was a medical transcriptionist.  She understood the lingo but took her understanding of COVID from the MSM.  I’ve been working on setting her straight.  When she came back from a recent exchange stating that was her understanding was that Plaquenil (which she had to look up asContinue reading “hey, Jude”

I today brought home from Staples some paper copies of the second edition of my first little book The Accident so I could have some for the Kindle-less.  They look great but lack one functionality of a Kindle, the ability to access any link.  There are only four links in the book, two to songsContinue reading “more links”

You really have no right to write about how great a party was unless you’ve got a good hangover from it.  I had that thought as I dragged myself out of bed this morning.  With that biologic memory of last night’s blowout fading as we crept into Saturday afternoon, I figured I better get crackingContinue reading “Wasn’t that a party?!”

Kathy and I have decided to celebrate Bastille day by making some genuine French fries, even though we knew they were mainly a Belgian thing, or maybe not https://delishably.com/vegetable-dishes/Is-it-French-Fries-or-Belgian-Frites.   We acquired the genuine McDonald’s recipe https://www.food.com/recipe/mc-donalds-classic’french-fries-copycat-433745, and had the necessary beef tallow on hand (secret ingredient) https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/1384.  Prior to 1990, all McDonald’s  fries were friedContinue reading “want fries with that?”

Are you spooked by this yet another new strain of COVID?  Don’t be.  When I first wrote about 2019-nCoVBetaCoV/Wuhan/WIVo4/2019 (Mr. Corona’s full name) back on March 13, 2020, just as things were starting to heat up (1), I mentioned that the little sucker mutates like a mink.  The error rate in reading coronavirus RNA isContinue reading “delta schmelta”

So what’s in those books I plugged recently? I thought I might clarify things by posting the forward that’s in each volume. Musing through a pandemic.  A year and a half with Mr. Corona. How did this all start?  There I was, 6 months into a forced retirement and finally shaking the bitterness while beginningContinue reading “a follow up on those shameless plugs”

Last month, I finally got around to reviewing and organizing the 170 odd posts I’d put up since starting this blog in January 2020. I thought that they might make up a book, strung around the theme of living through this pandemic. When I started, Mr. Corona was just making his way over from WuhanContinue reading “more shameless plugs”