The other day I was watching a video trying to figure out what some structures under the ocean might be in a conspiracy theory-type of video. You always have to watch them with a grain of salt and you know anything can be video edited these days... but I am deeply curious about it and other strange images captured by Google Earth and would love to see whatever you've found in your digging.
Is June really so near its end already? The month has flown by and it's nearly time to celebrate the Fourth of July. Many people love to make everything red, white and blue this time of year.
Who didn't love Debbie Gibson in the 80s? From "Only in My Dreams" to "Shake Your Love," you can't have an 80s themed party without her. She's as lovely as ever, and she certainly hasn't stopped in all these years, with chart-topping hits in 2006, 2017 and just as recently as last year with "Girls Night Out."
Sundaes, phosphates, affogato... Shug's Soda Fountain has them all. Shug's is celebrating their fifth anniversary and there's not much else I can think about on a warm day like this when one of their cold brews would really hit the spot! The thing I really love, though, are the phosphate sodas.
As a Midwesterner, it's incredibly frustrating to watch Covid case numbers rise around this region while so many people refuse to get vaccinated. I have loved ones who go tanning, drink, smoke and more who say they don't know what's in it, or that it hasn't been around long enough, for them to even consider putting it in their bodies.
Kidd Candelario, who has been with the Grateful Dead as a crew member for decades, recently suffered three smalls strokes and now has to undergo multiple types of intensive therapies. He will require daily support throughout this long healing process and a fundraiser has been set up to assist with costs.
Bones Coffee is one of my favorite places to buy ground coffee, and right now they are having their annual Christmas in July sale. That means they will be selling their delicious winter holiday flavors right now in the middle of summer! I love that they sell sample packs so you can try before you buy the larger bags, and as someone who loves to drink different flavors every day, I tend to buy mostly samples to just keep it fresh every day.
The holiday flavors include:
My teenager and I love song and poem parodies so much. We will sing random songs to one another as parodies all of the time, resulting in general merriment and laughter. When you can get one in perfect rhythm to match a song or poem that already exists... That is something to really celebrate!
In many ways, the Griffins symbolize the American family--in some ways for real and in some ways in terms of how the rest of the world views us. It's meant to be satire, of course, so we can laugh at ourselves, but the idea of pairing the show up with some patriotic merch is just so funny because of this very reason.
Isn't it fun when new species are named after novelties like fictional characters, novels or other famous figures? Lots of animals are named after famous people and this new species of frog, Pristimantis ledzeppelin, is no exception. The newly discovered Andes mountain frog is named after the band Led Zeppelin, of course!
When Black History Month, Juneteenth and other historical days come and go, people often find themselves pushing to buy Black, donate to the NAACP, and take action when many don't throughout the year. This is really something we need to be doing all of the time, whether it means supporting everyone from local Black business owners to doctors and hair stylists to looking up Black businesses to buy the daily products you use from.
This morning I checked my Goodreads challenge and saw that I was 15 books behind on my 121 book goal. Then I noticed I had neglected to add many of the books my teen and I read together (and I always include those, which is why my goal is high), added them, and now I'm just a few books behind. Yay!
Most of us can agree that the American political system is broken. We still have the Filibuster, the Electoral College and single old white guys holding the rest of us hostage when they refuse to even hold a vote. This shouldn't be legal, but here we are, and we're still up to our eyeballs in medical and college debt with no end in sight.
When it comes to supporting businesses during Pride month, a lot of people have mixed feelings. On one hand, representation does matter; and as far as I'm concerned, normalizing is what we need to spread more acceptance and joy. On the other hand, these days corporations have the most power, so seeing them donate to anti-queer candidates and remain silent when they try to pass harmful bills and then cover themselves in glitter come June is just baloney. We can't stand for it.
Ambient office = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 125 nanosieverts per hour
The Taishan nuclear power plant in China’s Guangdong province is owned and operated by a joint venture between EDF, the French owned nuclear company and China General Power Group (CGN), the Chinese owned nuclear power company. The U.S. news network reported that Framatome, the EDF subsidiary which designed the Taishan reactors, warned that there was an immediate radiological threat at the Taishan plant.
