Monday, No Longer Decoration Day

 I am still working on email and why Firefox keeps crashing. I have tidied up a bit, made my Coke Zero run to McClure's.

Quick items to share:

• Why orcas keep sinking boats - which sounds like a bad Richard Harris movie. (And Charlotte Rampling?)
• IEDC using helicopters to show off ‘mega-sites’ for Indy 500 weekend - so someone in Indy knows how to market!
• 10 U.S. lighthouses are being sold or given away for free by the government - but not to individuals, probably lacks Wi-Fi.

Onbeing.org - I found this on an envelope for from prison; used to hear it on WHYY - spirituality and living.

Onto other matters.

7:58

• I found the New Yorker's collection of book reviews.
• Aljazeera's Five key takeaways from Turkey’s pivotal election
• A new interpretation regarding the origin of Homo sapiens 

 New sanctions against Russia stuck in limbo over Greek-Hungarian protest  

But Budapest and Athens have thrown a collective spanner in the works by linking their approval for the package to a separate thorny issue involving Ukraine. Kyiv has compiled a list of private companies it calls "war sponsors,” which includes a number of European companies. 

The odd couple wants some of their companies struck off this list before they will agree to the sanctions package. While these issues normally aren’t linked, Hungary and Greece are using the sanctions package as political leverage to get their companies off Ukraine’s list. 

This sparked tensions at a meeting of EU foreign ministers earlier this week, where German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock directly criticized Hungary, according to diplomats familiar with the exchange.

Which leads to Cyndi Lauper:

 10:54

I spent the afternoon working on blog posts, back to my pretrial detention journal.

"Colonel Tom" has another rejection, this time from The Maine Review:

We are grateful for the opportunity to read "Colonel Tom." Although we are unable to accept it at this time, we thank you for considering The Maine Review as a home for your work. We are often forced to pass on pieces we admire, and we hope you keep creating.

EastOver Press & Cutleaf Journal turned down "The Local Boy Who Made Good."

Thank you for your submission to Cutleaf. There's much to admire in this piece, our readers agree, and we're glad you sent it, but ultimately we're going to pass on this one.

Thank you for the opportunity to read your work. 

Sincerely,

Keith Pilapil Lesmeister 

 

I ate at Puerto. No rice. Then I took a walk. Inactivity showed.

This will be me closing out for the day.

My grandmother called this holiday Decoration Day, but I bet she never heard Howling Wolf.

sch 6:45 pm