bookmark_borderThe COVID-19 Diary: Sunday 23 October

I love ending gaming sessions on cliffhangers.

“Suddenly the door to the casino bursts open and the death knight you encountered before enters with his mask wight minions. He regards you and the other casino patrons and says…”

“…and that’s where we’ll stop for today.”

Stay healthy and safe.







Today’s Mass Shootings

Brownsville police investigating shooting that left four people hospitalized

Chicago mass shooting during 100 car caravan kills three people, injures two

Milwaukee shooting; 4 wounded near 34th and Wright, no arrests


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bookmark_borderThe COVID-19 Diary: Thursday 20 October

Just when you think it’s gotten as weird as it can get…

Chainsaw Man follows the story of Denji, an impoverished young man who makes a contract that fuses his body with that of a dog-like devil named Pochita, granting him the ability to transform parts of his body into chainsaws. Denji eventually joins the Public Safety Devil Hunters, a government agency focused on fighting against devils whenever they become a threat to the world.

Wikipedia

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Today’s Mass Shooting

4 men, 1 woman shot at Cleveland barbershop; suspect at large, police say


Song of the Day

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bookmark_borderThe COVID-19 Diary: Sunday 16 October

Me, 12 AM: “Boy I’m tired. I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep.”

My esophagus, 2:30 AM: “Hi! I have some gastric reflux for you!”

My diaphragm, chiming in: “And hiccups!”

Thanks. You shouldn’t have.

Stay healthy and safe.







Today’s Mass Shootings

4 shot at Clark Atlanta University homecoming gathering, police say

4 people wounded when gunfire breaks out at Lancaster apartment complex

20-year-old suspect arrested in shooting near Virginia university that injured 8


Song of the Day

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bookmark_borderThe COVID-19 Diary: Monday 03 October

“Money often costs too much,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, and Benedictine spirituality would surely agree. Not just dishonesty but even the standards of the marketplace are un-Benedictine according to this chapter. Benedictine spirituality develops goods so that people can have them, not in order to make them available only to the highest bidder or to make excessive profits. Money gained in that fashion costs us compassion and community and our role as cocreators of the reign of God. It hollows out our souls and leaves us impoverished of character and deprived of the bounty of largesse. It is Benedictine to develop our gifts and distribute their fruits as widely and broadly as possible so that justice, but not profit, is the principle that impels us.

Joan Chittister, The Rule of Benedict

Stay healthy and safe.







Days Without a Mass Shooting: 1


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bookmark_borderThe COVID-19 Diary: Monday 05 September

Happy Labor Day.

Stay healthy and safe.






Today’s Mass Shootings

2 dead after shooting in Hunting Park section of Philadelphia, 4 others injured

GBI investigating after several people shot at club in Hartwell, Georgia

Medical examiner identifies man shot, killed outside East Cleveland bar

4 men shot during apparent drive-by shooting in North City

Two killed in quadruple shooting in Kansas City


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bookmark_borderThe COVID-19 Diary: Monday 08 August

I have to say I found Ayn Rand’s philosophy laughable. It was a “white supremacist dreams of the master race,” burnt in an early-20th century form. Her ideas didn’t really appeal to me, but they seemed to be the kind of ideas that people would espouse, people who might secretly believe themselves to be part of the elite, and not part of the excluded majority.

Alan Moore

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Days Without a Mass Shooting: 1


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bookmark_borderThe COVID-19 Diary: Friday 08 July

Larry Storch passed away. He’ll be remembered for many roles, probably most notably as Corporal Randolph Agarn in F Troop. I prefer to remember him this way.

Stay healthy and safe.







Today’s Mass Shootings

Quadruple Shooting: DPD Scouts responding to a local hospital for 4 shooting victims privately conveyed to the hospital, according to dispatch audio. | Facebook / The Detroit Scanner

4 people shot on Fairview Street in Greensboro | myfox8.com


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