Stars and Snippets

I am often ahead of myself in blogging, which means that when you read them they're behind. Is that a paradox?

Anyway, as I write this on Monday, I have been reminded that Star Wars was released into the world on this date in 1977.

We were at the old cottage that summer when our in-laws also showed up for a few days. Bill had seen the movie and praised it highly. Upon his recommendation, Sue and I drove to London (Ontario) from Sarnia to see it later that summer because it was gone from Sarnia.

I/We enjoyed it thoroughly, and I think it changed movie-making to some degree although perhaps I give it too much credit.

Bill was my brother-in-law whom I quite liked. He was the same age as I but passed away from a brain tumor a few years ago.

I think this selfie is quite apropos under the circumstance.

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I think I shall continue with various news clips that I am seeing today. It seems to be a good day for snippets, such as this one from this source. The gist of this article about a church service in Germany is that there was still much spreading of the virus despite the church attempting to take some precautions.

About 40 people tested positive shortly after the service. The rest of the 107 include people who tested positive later on or people they came into contact with. Either way, in a country that has flattened the curve and in a church where the leaders attempted to follow the rules, people still got the virus.

Speaking of churches, oh my!

The largest outbreak in South Korea came from a church. The largest outbreak in France came from a church. The latest outbreak in Germany came from a church. The latest CDC investigation traces a rural Arkansas outbreak—from a church.

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Provincially, we've had a spike in new cases for the past week with the daily totals going up past 400 after being well down in the 300s. They put it down to people dropping their guard on Mothers Day.

I guess that means that we can expect the spike to continue after the long weekend that followed Mothers Day. And don't forget last weekend and that park photo. The premier has asked all the participants of that park fiasco (as reported in Mondays post about Canadians being dumbasses) to get tested, and we have reached the stage when anyone can get tested on demand — apparently.

Update: Yesterday we were down to fewer than 300 new cases, which we haven't experienced since sometime in March. This virus is difficult to figure out — at least for me.

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When schools resume, will they look like this? I think this is from Thailand.

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I don't remember whether I saw this hard-hitting little post on TW or FB.

Every thing we wear is for other people. We wear bras so people won't be disgusted by our "grotesque" hanging breasts, deodorant so people will not gag from the smell of our armpits, and CLOTHES so people will not be forced to look at our naked bodies. We can wear a fucking mask.

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Remember when Trump used to criticize President Obama for golfing?

So far his golf trips have cost taxpayers more than $134,000,000 — 335 years of presidential salary.

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Here is a long term summer forecast for our region. If you live in another part of Canada, you can click this link for more information because the forecast varies from region to region. Who knows, the forecast might even be correct.

AccuWeather is predicting much of the province will see the stormiest summer in Canada this year, particularly around the Great Lakes region. This will also bring more humidity than usual to the area.

“I think we’ll see a lot of thunderstorms, increased threat of severe weather including tornadoes during the course of the summer,” Anderson said. “That’s going to keep the heat down during the day but the night is probably going to be warm and muggy.”

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But now it is hot. It seems like we just had the furnace on, but now The AC is On (as in my blog title heh heh). Hopefully, it will soon cool for more seasonable temperatures because it is too early for this nonsense.

I hope the weather is better wherever you may be.