powderfreak

Right, exactly. Everything with this is how it ties into public policy. Like people shouldn’t be surprised there are people afraid of variants, because humans are afraid of all sorts of stuff that doesn’t make sense. Same with the media. The media hasn’t changed, it does the same sensationalist stuff it’s done since the 1980s, but really tapped into suburban middle class fears in the 1990s to grow ratings. So people harping on the media, they are just doing the same thing they’ve always done…. the difference no one talks about (though saw Amarshall hit it earlier) is how it affected policy. None of the behavioral stuff exhibited by humans during this is any bit surprising. But it crossed that boundary into public policy so now people care what others are afraid of.

Plenty of people afraid of masking again or shut downs, likely more than are actually afraid of the virus/variants, ha. But humans are weird and afraid of a lot of things, many of which don’t make sense. Like people being terrified of flying in an airplane despite it being the safest mode of transportation. We have plenty of largely irrational fears; COVID is nothing new in that regard.

Chamber weather but need to decrease sky cover another 25% or so to hit true COC status. Getting the Gondola ready for Saturday’s summer opening. Nice hoodie weather up here.

Ha it’s true too. Can tell when the banter thread goes “hot” what’s being discussed. It’s not toenails. It’ll be around for a while, going to live rent free for many as a background simmer.

Yeah this thread is the only source of media for me. Skiing, Red Sox, Instagram… box yourself into the stuff you like and remove all the rest. Facebook is a largely negative complaining vibe from users, Instagram is much more positive/upbeat. The media hasn’t changed in decades, you just have more avenues to see it now. And everyone knew what the media was and did, it’s a business. From Dateline specials in 1997 meant to scare suburban moms all the way to today. Theres also a lot of people who complain non-stop about the media but yet can’t turn it off.

33F at SLK… what a place.

We are completely done here in VT recently; the books have been cleaned to pre-COVID times. First state in the US to be above 80% vaccinated. Can party like it’s 2019.

Chamber of Commerce temps coming in. 56F here and 52F at 1,500ft. Crisp. 40s moving in above 2,000ft.

Noticed that. Cranes and new building advertisements. It's good city real estate, Boston is definitely on the up and up. I love the city. We usually go to Montreal (2 hours to the large international airport) but Boston feels similar in size, despite having 50% of the population compared to Montreal. Montreal traffic with 1.8 million people can be very bad at the wrong time too. The big difference is all the people in the suburbs. Canada doesn't have that, ha!

Took about 15 minutes longer heading home with some traffic on 93 out of Boston around that 4pm time frame. I thought it would've been much worse. But I still give all of you a lot of credit who deal with that stuff on a daily basis. My daily drive is literally two songs long on the radio. It's exciting driving 85 with traffic in a 4-wide gauntlet.

Business trip and now going to see family she hasn't seen in a year and a half. Vaccination and restrictions ending, she gone . On another note though, it is pretty crazy to me that despite how far away our weather seems from BOS sometimes, in exactly 3 hours on the dot I can go from my driveway in Stowe to Logan Airport's departures ring. The interstate system is absolutely amazing. I-89 to I-93, so easy. It takes me another full hour to get to Albany than it does to go to Boston, because half of it is country routes. No wonder Stowe feels like a Boston suburb sometimes... it's just a quick jaunt to the interstate, and then drive on cruise control for 3 hours until you pass TD Garden.

Looks like we came away with 0.11” today at home. Some of those storms in CNE looked like more water coming out of the sky in 15 minutes than I’ve seen in June so far. That was some torrential rain, I-93 became a waterway very fast. Once near Sunapee and then that one south of Manchester. Haven't seen it rain like that at home in a while, but humanity invented the hose, so it doesn’t matter. The rain will come.

Wow! Awesome shot.

Yeah that was crazy. Had to drive the wife to Logan for a flight to Europe, timed that cell just right, ha. Best thunderstorm of the year for me so far. Some good wind with it.

WTF. Stopped dead on 93 south of Manchester. Branches flying and zero vis rain.

All that ULL turned into 0.44” over two days lol.

It’s gotta be like skiing in -30 to -60 wind chills… just not worth it and very few out-of-doors.

Devers walks it off! Had a feeling that was coming. Kid is just so good. Love baseball. You can give up 18 runs and lose one night, then win a tight 2-1 game only 24 hours later.

Vladdy Jr is something else. Home run #22 to tie it against the Sox in the bottom of the 9th. Barnes was cruising with two quick strikeouts. That's a sickening feeling... 451 feet to tie the game with 2 outs in the 9th.

120F in Palm Springs . Good golf destination if you play 18 before 7:30am.

Sometimes making an appointment at a place like a DMV/RMV sounds like a better way than showing up and waiting two hours. Or is it like every Apple Store on the planet where they make you make an appointment and then you still wait for 1-2 hours. “Welcome to Apple, we see your appointment is for 2:45pm, but we are running a little behind. How does 3:45pm sound?”

lol nice. That may be more than the past 30 days here.

I saw Gonzales hit like 89.6mph on his fastball... lol. A utility infielder. Give him a role. I loved @Great Snow 1717's take yesterday... that Fenway Security needed to start removing women and children from the Monster Seats and Bleachers before someone got killed by the lasers being hit into those seats by the Blue Jays.

Not much to complain or hype about right now. Always says he hates watering the lawn but he loved Stein like a father.

My father said the lake/pond they are on in North Woodstock CT is the highest it’s been in a very long time. Almost up to the bottom of the docks. Kids can usually swim under the docks with 18” of clearance lol. No Stein there in NE CT.