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| Photo By Evie |
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| 6:42 |
A brilliant morning of clear, blue skies, bright sun, frozen lake and frigid (finally) weather...for a DAY. Tomorrow, the thermometer may hit 50º, the ice and snow will disappear and we will be back where we started a week ago, with spring like weather. I am getting tired of writing about this.
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| 7:14 |
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| Long Point, 7:16 |
Saturday, like Friday, started out windy and cold, with threatening skies, and snow flurries. So my trip to the Transfer Station was not much fun, snow hitting my face, temperatures in the teens, biting wind. And I wanted winter? We were not sure of what to do as it was so miserable outside. So we decided to become more miserable and go look at washer/dryer combos at Home Depot and Sears. Both stores, both salespersons were helpful, wanting to help us find the perfect combo. We found, however, that most if not all machines are taller and deeper than our present machines. And because we have to put the combos in a closet with our boiler, we don't have enough room for these large machines. Or they will just fit but make access to our boiler and hot water heater almost impossible. Why is nothing easy, always more expensive then you think?
We finally gave up, gathered our senses, and focused on a quick shopping at Wegman's. It was as crowded as we have ever seen it and it was not even Tuesday when seniors get 5% off. We did manage to spend over a hundred bucks on a few pantry items. I wanted to get home to watch a basketball game, Ohio State/Indiana, so I was able to catch part of the second half while I ate my lunch, leftover spaghetti and meatballs. I soon tired of basketball, so Evie and I switched places, and I finished my Vince Flynn novel, THE LAST MAN, then took a nice nap.
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| 4:12 |
When I woke, Evie was putting together our dinner of Santa Fe chicken, searing the chicken thighs, adding hominy, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, taco sauce, and green chiles, another one of our go to favorites. Once the chicken was browned, all was put into pot and placed in the oven until it was time to eat. We then enjoyed a glass of wine, as the morning gloom had cleared and the sky was blue with puffy clouds, the colors reminding both of us of a summer day. Dinner was fine, enough left for another night. We watched the newest Jack Reacher movie with Tom Cruise as Jack. I am more like a Jack Reacher than Tom Cruise, right Patsi. Jack needs to be someone like Tommy Lee Jones, not a pretty boy. It was entertaining enough to keep us watching, just. We then watched the end of the Duke/North Carolina, to end the night.
Why We Believe Obvious Untruths: Fernbach and Sloman
"Knowledge isn’t in my head or in your head. It’s shared."
"We suspect that most of those people expressing outrage (at Trump's rolling back the regulations about dumping mining waste in to our water ways) lacked the detailed knowledge necessary to assess the policy. We also suspect that many in Congress who voted for the rollback were equally in the dark. But people seemed pretty confident."
"Such collective delusions illustrate both the power and the deep flaw of human thinking. It is remarkable that large groups of people can coalesce around a common belief when few of them individually possess the requisite knowledge to support it."
"It also can prompt us to demand expertise and nuanced analysis from our leaders, which is the only tried and true way to make effective policy. A better understanding of how little is actually inside our own heads would serve us well."
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