We have a whole collection of sophomoric jokes we tell each other when that happens.

The Recon Jet is like a decade old now. Maybe this one will be more successful.

Is today National Talk Like a Pirate Day?

Sailing regattas are based on points scored during a series of races. Sometimes you don't even have to race the final race if all of the other boats are so far behind in points that it does not matter.

As for your other question, I can be sailing at a boat speed of 10 knots, but if the current is 3 knots against me, then I am only moving across the ground at 7 knots per hour. Speed through the water and speed across the ground are both important in longer distance races. Speed through the water tells me how efficiently I'm sailing the boat - all sails are properly trimmed, weight/ballast is in the right places, boat is being steered well, etc. If I'm too slow over the ground, I may want to look for a different route.

Olympic races don't worry about those two things as much since the races involve short legs. In Olympic style races you are mainly concerned with your boat speed versus the competition, whether your boat is more directly pointed toward the turning marks, and which side of the course has better wind/conditions. Speed and compass bearing are the two measurements that are most important in small boat racing, and after that you want your head "out of the boat" and learning from what is going on around you.

Sept. 19

Did he say that his dad is an attorney?

If that was my kid and I got the call, my advice would be to tell him to figure it out himself. Can't condone stupid.

Ohio Man flying through Philly on his way to Florida. Seems about right.

Especially if you are flying Frontier in coach. (Do they even have Business Class?)

Today is National Grab Some Nuts Day.

Had to or could?

It’s a few years of long-term care, is what it is.

Maybe a bit more. My MIL's memory care after her stroke that left her partially paralyzed runs about $85k/yr.

My parents’ joint burn rate with home care in NYC was roughly 300,000/yr and it still sucked and gave my brother PTSD.

Does this have something to do with medical cannabis???

I wish.

A local morning newscaster on a station here likes to announce the "national days." I missed it today, but I am going to guess he left that one off the list.

I actually wrote it that way. I’ve been watching a lot of British detective shows so me speech is changing.

Fun fact: I am now credentialed to certify patients to get medical cannabis in Pennsylvania. However I purposefully asked the state to not put me on the searchable database. I only want to offer this to existing patients, when appropriate.

I have aches and pains, and cannot take Ibuprofen. Can you sign me up?

Close encounter with a grizzly may land a beary good meal in the hoosgow.

Cellphone snapshot of grizzly has Yellowstone tourist facing federal charges (msn.com)

So AG's work has a new workflow that involves project managers hand-writing JSON files of a few hundred lines. No one appears to have realized how bad an idea this is yet, as she's the first going through it. Their internal tools team would rather play with RPMs than resolve the workflow issue.

Of course I taught myself some Python and cooked up a script to do it in a few hours, and will be improving it. But good lord.

Any good pictures?

I believe it for full-time home care for two.

It's hard to prepare for getting old.

So I have started to make some reservations for a planned post-Labor Day tour home from New England. Booked a night at a KOA in MA. Came back to BF and started seeing KOA ads.

God, no! For a while there was a pain doc locally with the same last name. It was about that time that I stopped picking up my desk phone.

BTW, LSS had her lumpectomy and bilateral reconstruction yesterday. I had no idea care that good—aggressively and cheerfully efficient and thorough, from diagnosis to follow-up—was even available. What a change from the military system, where we were for 27 years, and the above average HMOs we were in before that. Some things are getting better.