LOCAL: They call me Fred with the sled. I switched to my old stand-by, a foam pad with handles. Th Flexible Flyer doesn’t work on light snow on asphalt. I carved runs riding skeleton. I documented a speed of 17 mph. I traveled about 725 feet, about 60% of my distance record in skeleton at Patsy Hillman park, 1300 feet or so. I should be, you know, sitting on a porch and whittling or garbling the names of recent movies or celebrities at my age.
The first part of the hill was at 16 degree grade, so maximum acceleration meant I took a running start and jumped onto a pile of snow shoved to the side of the road. No style points for oofing and aghing over the terrain.
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My son is disabled and requires an aide. He is required to do synchronous work online in Zoom meetings rather than working from an email and an instruction set with an optional Zoom for Q&A. So, that arrangement requires a parent leave work and adopt his classroom schedule. What does a parent tell a boss? This is a right to work state with a $7.25 minimum wage.
DRONE: Temperatures are getting low this week, -8 this Friday. I’m flying nothing but a full beard right now.
ICE implements a no-fly drone around operations. 3’000 feet lateral, 1’000 feet vertical window. The FAA does not track and publish these movements. Federal Aviation Administration – Graphic TFRs. So, hopefully there will be a way to legally protect operators would logically have no way of knowing they were violating National Defense airspace. There needs to be a way of geofencing the location. These TFRs can affect commercial operators, so they have the right to know when these operations are going to cut into revenue and profit streams. Risk aversion applies to the economy. So, don’t fly around ICE because they…could be anywhere. Like demons. Get your graveyard dirt. Get your rabbit’s foot, roll the dice!
Check this: Visualize it: See FAA UAS Data on a Map.
SCIENCE: Artemis II launch window opens up Feb. 6. Astronauts are in quarantine. Intuitive Machines, a Texas-based company, is delivering telemetry, rovers, and a hopper named Grace to the Moon in March. March Moon Madness! NASA link button on FPO front page.
ART: I put up a 36′ x 24′ canvas. Trying to get some time to work on it. Just sort of traumatized by the murder of citizens in Minnesota by unidentifiable masked goons hired by ICE. I have seen ICE used under different admins. Politicizing border security is ineffective. This isn’t dine ‘n’ dash. You paper trail your work if you are on Uncle Sam’s dime. Otherwise, this effort is unsustainable and unteachable.
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