This song by Louis Armstrong came out just before the Great Depression. Kind of the mood these days

Never been a NY guy. I’m west coast and the islands. But NY in the 40s with the jazz and bebop scene must have been exhilarating and amazing and life altering all at the same time. LA had its own scene too with Dave Brubeck among them.
Watching Ken Burns Jazz. It speaks of hope, dreams, creativity and possibilities. Things the voting majority of our country just voted away.

Need some Astrophysics to figure out how to get Washington DC and Ma-ra-lago closer to a Black hole event horizon.
Watching “Before” on AppleTV+ with Billy Crystal, 3 episodes in and it keeps getting weirder. I’ll stick with it.
This one came back up. It how I feel about the country. It’s not going to be the country that my ancestors fought for in the Virginia Militia.

Our monthly volunteer effort at the Palamanui Dry Forest reforestation project. My grandson gets school credits, I’m helping restore a dry forest for future generations. Might be good place to hide.
Kind of annoyed. Our HP printer doesn’t support WPA3 protocol. Luckily our guest network is WPA2/WPA3 so the little printing we actually do is ok. We are more often printing forms for school for our grandsons. Schools still using paper
My future Daughter in-law floated the idea of starting an Island food plate food truck in Sonoma / Petaluma, if/when we move there. Sounds intriguing. Hawaiian Beef Stew plate, Kiawe Grilled Chicken, Korean chicken. A solid mac salad and proper sticky rice. Spam and teriyaki chicken musubi. It wouldn’t be hard.
It’s alway humorous when people don’t realize their car isn’t soundproof when they are having an argument over the phone on the car speakers. So glad you are sharing that.
I guess we’ll find out soon enough if these counties with high immigrant populations who voted red were right
These California counties flipped from blue to Trump this year