country park

At last. Not raining. Outside for some sun and fresh air.

el derecho de vivir en paz

Morning reading. Chile, Vietnam, the World.

I had a UNC-Greensboro professor from Chile years ago who was in Chile when the big shit hit. I read everything he provided and more.

We became friends. He had a stressed mind and damaged body from being imprisoned in one of the stadiums. Somehow he could still make his way in the world enough to keep researching and teaching.

I had a few courses at UNCG that were mind-blowing. His was one of them.

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/03/05/the-right-to-live-in-peace/

the keys to cuba

Only some keys get to be “The Cuba Keys.” 🇨🇺

Bought it in Cuba, too!

me at 16 with mom at the canyon

Me, age 16, and my mother. My mom. ❤️

That boy felt FUNNY inside, but he was pretty quiet about it for a few more years. Heck, I knew well before 16.

My brother had already started the “I know you have a secret” stuff. A few years later, I could say the same back to him. 😁

Looking at the pics, I think that I may as well have hung a sign around my neck, but these pics were the exception. I usually looked ready to ride a Harley. uh huh, lol. I preferred Yamahas and Suzukis. Must have been part of the problem.

centro guadalajara sanborns closed

Damn. Sanborns department store and restaurant has closed the downtown location in Guadalajara. I like Sanborns so much for the ostentatious elegance it offers at prices that a normal person can afford.

I met so many friends at the restaurant in this downtown store plus took all of my family there except my father. Brian and I loved the two for one cocktails that were available on certain days.

And, OMG, the bakery. Indescribably delicious.

Department stores Sanborns, Liverpool, Sears and Palacio de Hierro are all shedding employees due to the economic downturn. Sears in Mexico is different than in the USA. The stores are very fine.

https://www.eloccidental.com.mx/local/noticias-sanborns-cierra-sus-puertas-para-siempre-del-centro-de-guadalajara-6433003.html

pesticide collars for domestic animals

Story from USA Today, so no telling what factors are at play here, but it sounds plausible. I’ve heard about this issue many times for years.

1700 pet deaths linked to one brand of flea and tick collars. What about all the others? If 1700 can be linked, I imagine the real number is much higher.

The companies that make pet products often make human ones, too, so when I hear “safe, effective, thoroughly tested,” I’m not always sure.

It sounds like regulatory capture and conflict of interest are at play, things that are baked right into our system. It makes for muddy waters on making decisions.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/03/02/seresto-dog-cat-collars-found-harm-pets-humans-epa-records-show/4574753001/

soup

Otis Campbell’s

can’t find ’em

Some people I would love to find but the names are not that odd, so it borks the searches for many years now. I’ve run ’em around the engines and social media over and over.

I should put a number of hearts by the ones I loved the most, but I loved ’em all. ❤️

César Octavio Ventura Peña
Marco Antonio Gutierrez Orozco
John Martin
Victor Inda

rendezvous for prime

That feeling when you stay up all night drinking and order so much from Amazon that it takes two vans to deliver it all on a Sunday. 😱

Actually, there’s nothing for us in those vans this time. It’s an Amazon rendezvous.

We see that in the neighborhood sometimes. Two of them get together and run freight back and forth.

pretty bug

Pretty little VW Beetle. 🐞

Some clues that it was produced during the later years: curved windshield and sealed beam headlights without a cover.