I’ve learned one of the methods of success is to say nothing about your personal views when in polite company. When you know people are likely to disagree with your opinion always step away from your opinion, revert to the core facts and work to guide the discussion from your dangerous view point.
As Wall Street heads into a new quarter, a flurry of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are set to go into effect. That has traders on edge and has helped put US stocks in their worst first-quarter slump in years.
Wall Street has been rocked with volatility this year as Trump’s tariff proposals have kept investors in a cloud of uncertainty. The benchmark S&P 500 index is down almost 6% for the year, its worst start since 2020.
US stocks were lower Monday. The Dow was down by 50 points, or 0.1%, pulling back from opening lower by about 300 points. The S&P 500 was lower by 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite slid 1.8%. The S&P 500 briefly reentered correction territory, down 10% from its record high in February, and dropped to its lowest level since September.
Stocks around the globe were lower Monday ahead of Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” this Wednesday when reciprocal tariffs in addition to others are set to go into effect. Economists anticipate the sweeping tariffs could spur inflation and drag on economic growth.
That’s a question I’ve been giving a lot of though to lately as I work on the latest revisions of the blog
I guess it can be anything I want as I have complete control of the content and design – within the technical limitations of my server and the WordPress platform
Over the years I’ve played with different designs, using mapping and GIS data in different ways
My latest revision to be released next week will focus a lot on aerial photography and the full screen beauty of the land
It’s kind of a work in progress but I’m trying to find new ways to both express myself and the world around me
I think it’s important to capture both the good and bad in society, both the new and old
I’m so fascinated and at the same time horrified when I look at both historical and new aerial photos of our changing landscape
So there is definitely more to look forward to next week
I use external-app-launcher and yt-dlp to watch Youtube videos in VLC without ads and full-screen. By using yt-dlp, it tends to be most up to date to Youtube changes, which isn’t always the case with VLC or other players like freetube.
I have this file saved in my ~/bin directory as pyt to load the video in VLC.
notify-send -t 15000 "Loading Youtube Video in VLC ...""Should open in a few seconds."-i /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/symbolic/mimetypes/video-x-generic-symbolic.svg &
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yt-dlp -f b --simulate --execvideo:'vlc --play-and-exit --meta-title=%(title)#q %(url)#q'$1
That said, I think I want to try to ride in this morning as I don’t think their is any rain going to hit this morning, and while the evening commute is dicey, the worse thing is I get soaked riding back to the express bus stop. I mean, last Monday I could have gotten away with riding both ways without getting soaked, despite rain mid-day.
Must be that I am in my extreme manic phrase, after the coffee and caffeine pills but I also don’t see a lot of rain on radar so I guess it’s fine to ride in. At least my ass isn’t dragging yet this morning, though I might crash when I get in the office and coffee maker is broke because it exploded all over that wonderful old Italian guy who makes the office coffee every day, like happened so tragically on that first day of the time change. I’m just giggling with memories of being high as fuck on summer vacation, laying back in hammock listening to Lovin Spoonful, Did You Have to Make Up Your Mind. While probably reading a book about homesteading, enjoying the warm cow-smelling breezes of Finger Lakes. Or those days listening to Grateful Dead, floating on Seneca Lake. It would be fun some day to own cows, but it’s also so much meat, manure and feed.
But truth is I’m ready to ride in as yesterday was bitterly cold and wet and while I went for a short ride on Saturday I didn’t get many miles logged over the soggy weekend. Plus I don’t like paying the bus fare or running between the shuttle and express bus at the end of day. And my stomach feels a bit bloated and upset after all that rice and lentils yesterday, plus the cornmeal and onion pancakes this morning, and a bit achy from the rain. So riding in will feel good. But I’m severely mentally ill.
Making the money today with the COLA now in effect, though I also got fill out the tax form so they take even more money out of my paychecks to give to the government. I think an additional $46 a paycheck should cover it. Rather do it that way then bother with quarterly tax payments. At least I didn’t fined for underpayment of taxes last year. I don’t know how I escaped the fine, but I didn’t get asked to pay it. Lots of data frames to build, records to link and other things to build in the new week.
I’d love to get out of town this weekend, but it looks to be rainy and cold again this weekend. Maybe I should just bring a tarp and string that up. At least the fire danger would be low. I think there might be a fair amount of snow up north, though I might head to Adirondacks if the weather improves. I’d love to get up north again soner then later.
after the coffee and caffeine pills but I also don’t see a lot of rain on radar so I guess it’s fine to ride in. At least my ass isn’t dragging yet this morning, though I might crash when I get in the office and coffee maker is broke because it exploded all over that wonderful old Italian guy who makes the office coffee every day, like happened so tragically on that first day of the time change. 
I’m just giggling with memories of being high as fuck on summer vacation, laying back in hammock listening to Lovin Spoonful, Did You Have to Make Up Your Mind. While probably reading a book about homesteading, enjoying the warm cow-smelling breezes of Finger Lakes. 
Or those days listening to Grateful Dead, floating on Seneca Lake. It would be fun some day to own cows, but it’s also so much meat, manure and feed. 
as yesterday was bitterly cold and wet and while I went for a short ride on Saturday I didn’t get many miles logged over the soggy weekend. Plus I don’t like paying the bus fare or running between the shuttle and express bus at the end of day. 
And my stomach feels a bit bloated and upset after all that rice and lentils yesterday, plus the cornmeal and onion pancakes this morning, and a bit achy from the rain. So riding in will feel good. But I’m severely mentally ill. 
today with the COLA now in effect, though I also got fill out the tax form so they take even more money out of my paychecks to give to the government. I think an additional $46 a paycheck should cover it. Rather do it that way then bother with quarterly tax payments. At least I didn’t fined for underpayment of taxes last year. I don’t know how I escaped the fine, but I didn’t get asked to pay it. Lots of data frames to build, records to link and other things to build in the new week. 
but it looks to be rainy and cold again this weekend. Maybe I should just bring a tarp and string that up. At least the fire danger would be low. 
I think there might be a fair amount of snow up north, though I might head to Adirondacks if the weather improves. I’d love to get up north again soner then later.