Mary and I are reading a biography of HD Thoreau and I feel like I have a better bead on who the heck NST is from getting a slightly better bead on that aspect of small town New England's history/perspective. Neither of us have spent more than glancing careens through New England population centers in our lives.
We were on our way to visit a friend on the coast of Maine with an intention of crashing Nick's front porch party on the way by, for some egg-salad sandwiches when Mary's back went sideways. We've been doing urgent care/medical imaging/accupuncture/physical therapy instead. She's recovering well and may likely avoid surgery. It is just as well with COVID spiking again... we were planning an Amtrak run supplemented by a rental car and might have been able to avoid the worst of the gambit ( not so much our own risk, but the risk of stirring pots best left under-stirred and becoming vectors ourselves ). I read that Amtrak style travel clocks in at 1/2 the carbon footprint of air-travel... I'm surprised it is not better. In either case, it doesn't fit well into my aspiration of joining (spiritually) the 2000 Watt Society <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society>. The more formidable target of a 500W Society (to achieve a carbon-neutral humanity with lots of assumptions) doesn't likely leave any room for long-distance travel unless it is roughly by-foot (bring back the Mormon Handcart <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_pioneers#Travel_conditions>?) Maybe DaveW can get a friend to haul him into his favorite hot-spring that way without the noise and erosion and fumes of an ATV? On 9/7/21 2:14 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > My domain has expired this week too and my email account stopped to > work, but I was able to renew it. Hope you are online again soon! > > -J. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> > Date: 9/7/21 19:46 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: [FRIAM] Nick has gone dark > > I fried my network adapter, so I will have no network connectivity at > least until friday. Possibly, longer if it turns out to be a > software problem. Didn't want anybody to think I didn't love them. > If you need to talk, best to call me at 413-477-6602. God knows I > don't have anything else to do. > > Nick > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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