Northwest of Manhattan?!

So nice to see a good news headline these days.

Thanks, but I’m hoping for something super inclusive of the entire industry.

We get them all. Deer, birds, chipmunks. The entire garden needs to be protected by hardware cloth. The chipmunks got through the original chicken wire we had. We had to enclose the top as they climbed over. Plus the small birds eat any berries. A constant battle to be able to harvest anything.

A store-made bagel, with 2 over-easy eggs and a thick slice of a spiced ham product called (pork roll) or (taylor ham), a slice of American cheese, and “salt, pepper, ketchup”.

Commonly with bacon, sausage, or regular sliced deli ham replacing the meat. Sometimes with hot sauce instead of ketchup. The bagel can be any type, but is often “everything”.

NYC area, mostly north New Jersey.

Gold coins. I bought at the all-time high.

I did. See above

Ke=1/2 M V^2 Not relativistic. So wildly low. But certainly a low bound. My point being that nuclear bomb grade energy is certainly in the ballpark.

Cash.

By my back-of-the -envelope math it is 4,500,000,000 joules. The Hiroshima bomb is listed at approximately 10,000,000,000,000 joules. I bet xkcd is far more accurate, though.

It sounds like you might like “The Tao of Pooh”.

With that username and that quote, I expect that you are (like me) in your 60s.

We are in the same club. My wife had surgery and chemo for colon cancer last year. She’s testing clean. We are hopeful that it’s all behind us now. But the neuropathy from the chemo is still very bad. It may be another full year of that.

My hobby is genealogy. Almost every generation seems to have someone in the family that endured significant hardship but made it through. The most recent one I found was a young child burned to death in a barn fire. Others are kids orphaned by flu or other illness. I always find that one person that could have quit - but didn’t. Americans seem to have a recessive resilient gene. It comes out only at dire need. This can give us great hope these days.

Same

A bird flu pandemic would do that too. Without ruining the environment.

Astronomy. I’m a merit badge counselor. But every time I set up in my yard I invite friends and neighbors.

Genealogy. I’m working on trees for several friends. I’d like to do it for money, but the pay isn’t there.

How long before this type of behavior gets you thrown out of a window?

https://youtu.be/0sYK2RwH5E8?feature=shared

Like crocodile but not spelled that way.

This is a major plot point of The Dispossessed by Le Guinn.