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ZH with a nice summary of a report from MS (Matt hornbach their bond guy) on the source of Treasury shorting over the last quarter. Seems it would start in Japan and was related to end of year balancing. He predicts rates will normalize in April , already seeing some of that. Cant find report , assume it’s behind a paywall.

Not being critical and maybe you are but surprised your not back in the gym, I’ve been back since July and haven’t had any cases in the gyms I go to. The only thing that sucks is working out with a neck gaiter because I sweat a lot and it like being water boarded when it fills with sweat.

.08 overnight UUU , crocuses blooming now,daffodils shortly maybe today

Noticed a lot of kids out in their baseball uniforms yesterday , nice to see them start with some sort of normalcy for them, miss those days coaching

You should be fine just keep em watered if we drought

Only way to avoid it is ask if you can pay it yourself, most banks would rather take your money early and work with it. Do that for all your mortgages and that adds to the bottom line.

This , given the nature of the beast, escrow withholding will always lag tax changes.

Sent my son to private schools, with one it was financially feasible , and was happy with their Performance. Given the environment today agree with Phin, it’s a good choice. Private schools here have been in person all along, although I will say public school in out town had part time in person this school year.

This is dated but saw more on expanded short positions in bonds this week, eventually the WSB boys will turn their attention to bonds and correct rates. (tongue in cheek but should eventually correct)

Commercial guys dropped fert around here this week, time to fire up the lawn thread.

1.29 storm total at UUU. No evidence of snow here, it was windy overnight max gust 40

1.17” at UUU , Nice drink

good news on the rain all guidance wet. last morning in the teens for me. 19.4/-2.2 @ UUU

looks mostly wet on the coast, would actually be nice to get a a small accumulation that melts that day.

I might have thrown a little fert down as well.

Yup,

Yup, low soil moisture here , we melted out more than 3 weeks ago with no rain since. I was screwing around cleaning some stuff off with the hose today and the overspray onto the lawn immediately caused it to green up. Would like to see some rain to get the entire lawn to green uP.

Yeah as a CS we can apply sick leave towards time in, so adds nearly 13 months of service. As for vaccine prefer the one and done J&J

Personally, I am not an anti-Vaxer but never get the seasonal flu shot, it’s success rate and my personal experience with the flu just doesn’t seem worth it ( I never get sick - I have accrued 2200 hours of sick leave). I will soon be eligible for the shot here in RI, and will get it. If it were just me i probably wouldn’t bother, mostly because I live (falsely ha) with a sense of invincibility, but to protect my wife and mother , who I visit regularly, I will get it. Hoping to get the J&J, my wife seems to think we can choose, but I don’t know. Plus my wife would divorce me if I didn’t get it.

completely different day here today with a gentle breeze off the land up to 64.4 at UUU. yesterday felt cold with wind blowing 20+ off the water and temps in the low 50's

ocean wind here (Portsmouth RI) today as expected low fifties, still feels nice but warmer tuesday with wind off the land

Trying to get out tomorrow, Newport national, but work might get in the way

Yeah one thing to consider when you’re buying new clubs is to see if your local club/pro will let you demo sets. I am lucky enough to have a relationship with the pro at one of the local clubs I am not a member at . I talk to him and when I was in the market I went to hi. First and he let me play with ping, titleist and Calloway. He set up a fitting with the titlist rep and gave me a deal when I bought through him. I didn’t have to but no5ing brats actually paying a round or two with a set before you buy. I have done that before with drivers as well. One point I demo’d a driver liked it so much I just bought the demo at a deep discount

yeah had my grill blow across the deck, wind roaring through the tree tops

17.6 at UUU, looks like peak gust of 52.9 at 6;53PM yesterday, some gusts to the low 40's now