Base Camp Journal
(12/27/24)
Ok, I'm finally at the point that I remembered to update this page...
After spending a long few days of anger, depression and retreat from following any news after the election results, I came out the other end deciding to start another anti-Trump podcast to exercise my freedom of speech.
Once I had a plan to focus on, the elements of the show came together very quickly, and two weeks later the first episode went up.
By now I've produced six weekly episodes, found a new global source of indie music to play, and feel a little more prepared for the chaos to come next year (well, as prepared as I can be)...
Meanwhile here's an early price check...
Somebody in a blog suggested tracking food prices as a guage of how bad the incoming regime's policies will be, but we're not two months after the election and this is the first sign of things to come...
This is the price of eggs at the Kroger outlet grocery store I go to most often, in my old neighborhood, dated Nov. 24th...
This is the price on Dec. 22nd, primarily caused by the spread of bird flu among poultry flocks in the United States...
Right now, California is the epicenter of the outbreak, with 34 human cases of bird flu in the state alone, mainly after exposure to cows (so much for drinking raw milk), but the first severe human cases have been reported in Louisiana.
The biggest fear among World Health Org. officials is a pandemic caused by the bird flu strain HN79, which is harder to spread from person to person, but if/when it does happen, most people become seriously ill.
This is just a taste of what might happen sooner rather than later, especially if PGrabby pulls the US out of the WHO...
(12/29/24)
Accuweather/Mapbox image from lunch time today. It rained a little overnight and early morning...
As far as bike activity, it's been gray and rainy off and on each week this month, well above average for the city, with a repeat of this pattern forecast for January. Crap...
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