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Wednesday Watering Hole: Check In & Hangout for the Herd

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Good morning meese! Happy happy Wednesday!


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Recs on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

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The morning check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.

It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:

Always remember the Moose Golden (Purple?) Rule:

Be kind to each other… or else.

What could be simpler than that, right?

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  1. iriti

    32 here, headed for 45. For January, a fine day predicted: sunny and relatively warm. Special bonus: we’re now halfway through winter.  

  2. DeniseVelez

    working on my course outlines today (school starts next week)- after a 9AM trip to see the new dentist – was able to get an emergency transfer of provider waiver yesterday (you can only change on certain dates) – after my husband’s insurer found out I can’t eat.

    I know people rarely have anything good to say about insurance companies – but it was great to see how quickly they responded – and the person on the phone was really nice.

  3. JanF

    It is 13 degrees here on its way up to 15. We got 3 inches of snow officially yesterday but there was a lot of blowing and drifting. I hear the plows outside right now, plowing us in!!

    For what it is worth, I am surviving not having the Weather Channel on my DirecTV. The replacement, Weather Nation, does a pretty nice job and between that and an expanded weather report on my local over-the-air WX (also from Weather Nation, Accuweather got the boot from them) I can still veg out in front of weather when my brain stops working at about 4pm.

    Speaking of weather, apparently the federal judge in Oklahoma was waiting for hell to freeze over to issue his ruling on same-sex marriage: it had been sitting in his inbox for 9 years. I believe that the Polar Vortex did freeze hell so this happened:

    A federal judge invalidated Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage late Tuesday, finding that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. In a ruling that is the culmination of ten years of litigation, U.S. District Judge Terence Kern rejected Oklahoma’s stated child-rearing and moral reasons for banning same-sex marriage as “so attenuated” that exclusion cannot survive even the most basic level of court review. Kern writes:

       

    Equal protection is at the very heart of our legal system and central to our consent to be governed. It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions. Therefore, the majority view in Oklahoma must give way to individual constitutional rights.

    Looks like, as they found in Loving v Virginia … and Utah, just because a majority of a state’s citizens want to discriminate, the U.S. Constitution forbids it. When the benefits clause of DOMA was struck down, significant benefits were denied to same-sex couples and that has opened the door to judges ruling that the discrimination results in damage.

    This ruling is on hold pending appeal so Oklahomans will not be rushing to the altar like they did in Utah.

    See all y’alls later!!

     

  4. anotherdemocrat

    Oh wow, that alarm was early. I think I’m mostly going on momentum, because there’s no way I’m actually awake. Definitely a caffeine day. It is certainly going to seem really loud — and I haven’t actually spoken to anyone except at the grocery store, since Sunday. (perhaps the fact that when I’m off work I limit my human interactions to 90% virtual says that I need to not work on a call center?)

    Very happy that Wendy Davis raised so much money. That’ll give her credibility to… raise more money, which is what she needs. And the timing is great, with her segment with Maria Shriver airing today.

    My plan for the day: stay awake, live through the cedar count that has gone down to merely “very high” – it is at least on the chart, at 7,000-something. I did not pack my gym bag.

  5. Diana in NoVa

    gray fog.  It looks like Brigadoon outside. It’s not freezing, though, so that’s nice. Snow showers at the end of the day, so we won’t get to see the full moon tonight.

    Glad to hear about the good dental insurance. I pay for an AARP plan, for which the premium goes up every year. One day it’s going to overtake my health insurance premium, I’ll bet. Still, Delta Dental is pretty good and I’ve been able to keep the dentist I’ve had for a long time, even though I’m eight years into retirement.

    Another school shooting, this time by a 12-year-old. This country is INSANE. Also, one doesn’t feel safe anywhere, now.  My husband and I have been too lazy to go to movies, and now I doubt we ever will.

    Yesterday when I came over to take care of Miss Pink Cheeks, I noticed a new toy in the living room, a “nursery.” It’s a doll-sized baby crib, with a sink on one side and a high chair on the other. My granddaughter explained that this toy had got stuck in the chimney. “And Santa forgot to wrap it,” she said, “in a pink wrapper!”

    LOL–after my son and daughter-in-law moved into their new house last November, things quickly piled up downstairs, to the point where they couldn’t open that particular closet before Christmas.

    Time to get her dressed and ready–everyone have a good day!

  6. bfitzinAR

    but I don’t think it’s actually below freezing in Fay, AR – still 1st week of classes and last week of enrollment (not as many intro-level students as “expected” and way more upper division folks looking for electives we aren’t offering – but nobody pays any attention to the staff, we just enroll people, try to help them find enough hours for full-time, and deal with their complaints – what do we know).  QC back in session as of tomorrow.  We shall see what we shall see.  Hope everyone has a good day.  {{{HUGS}}} bf

  7. princesspat

    The full moon is shinning in my window, silhouetting the outlines of my old maple trees. It’s absolutely lovely to see.

    Today’s errands will be more fun than yesterday’s as I’m going to a very creative quilt shop. I have a design in mind for a quilt for our grandson, but I need the experts to help me simplify my grand plan so I can actually do it! I want to use all the fabrics I have left from the things I have sewn for him so he will have fun discovering and remembering. The challenge is to use them in a way that will appeal to a nearly 13 yr old. I predict public eye rolling and private snuggling.

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