Wordle 69

 

Wordle 68

I was so certain I had it right in the 4th guess that I poked around wondering why I was unable to share the result.  I was blind to that big black C sitting there.  Or maybe overwhelmed by all the green blocks.

 

Wordle 67

 Yes, still playing after finally losing after 66 games...

Chemo.  Later, demon moose movie.

Pecchia, Armature Grammarian

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My parents and community are very proud of me because I do know what humor is. And unlike senator sloth here, I'm not catering to just any dummy for likes, only those who have a good sense of humor and intelligence. Which of course doesn't include you obviously 

David Pecchia @dpecchia Replying to @disassemblylion @CoffeeAndAPhone and @senatorshoshana

The last sentence, "Which of course doesn't include you obviously." could be improved in any of 3 ways.

1. Which of course doesn't include you, obviously. 

2. Which of course doesn't include you. Obviously. 

3. Which of course, doesn't include you. Obviously.

Wordle 66

 I finally lost one!

I knew that there were a lot of words which could be formed from  _ATER but by then, I had only one guess in which to try and eliminate a few.  Some were already excluded, like WATER, HATER, TATER, LATER, EATER. But many remained, like  CATER, MATER, RATER, DATER, OATER, FATER, GATER, 

Added:  When something unpleasant happens, sometimes a nice thing happens and gives you a consolation prize.  After some weeks (or should I say weaks) of failing to clean and jerk 155 lbs. not only did I make that weight today, but I did it 4 times and a couple of the tries were pretty effortless feeling.

Wordle 65

 

You can get a phrase by arranging these words either way:

Tease smelt or Smelt tease

Weekend Review

Two things I dread awaited me as the weekend approached:  Wife insisted that the dog be washed, kitchen faucet insisted (by having a non-repairable leak) on being replaced.

Wife does cardio on Saturday mornings, so I went to O'Connor Hardware in Billerica and not Lowe's, which is just as close.  Why?  The former isn't that much further, has better selection and much better service.  Though, this time the kid who helped me, steered me wrong: He got me stringers to go from the 3/8" compression fitting advertised on the faucet to the 1/2" threaded supply lines from under my sink.  The problem was that the 3/8" fittings were both female.  Luckily, I had been down this road before and already had 3/8" male compression fittings at the end of the stringers which were already installed.

The difficult part wasn't in installing the new faucet though:  The old one was attached by a single nut, which had to travel about 4" of thread.  This nut is sandwiched between the wall and the back side of the sink and is nearly impossible to get any kind of wrench onto it.  Luckily, the brass stem also threaded into the valve body and so it only took about 10 turns--instead of hundreds to remove.  The new faucet has the much more sane attachment method of large diameter plastic nuts that have fins on them, so you just use your hands.

The rest of the day was spent on a marathon of weightlifting:  I did 20 clean and jerks at or above 145 lbs. 11 of which were at or above 150 lbs.  The 26 total lifts took about 90 minutes.  Wife caught-up on work for her job all day and so at the end of the day, we were too tired to cook and ordered out to Max and Leo's.

The next morning we forced ourselves to get up early and do a pre-breakfast grocery shopping.  It was  a good idea:  Daylight Savings Time caused the store to be mostly empty and we shopped efficiently.  After breakfast and a 6 mile run, it was dog-wash time.  I lucked out on this, though it was somewhat unpleasant:  Normally, I suds-up the dog twice and condition twice, but after the first sudsing,  the water began to get cold--wife was doing laundry.  The washing was cut short!  Both dog and I were a bit shivery but at least the ordeal took less time.

Off-Grid and Home Schooling

Utilities are considered natural monopolies because of at least two things:  First, it's inefficient to have more than one set of distribution infrastructure serving the same set of customers.  Second, it's generally a rule that producing a utility (water, sewer, electricity, gas, garbage removal, etc.) provides efficiencies of scale.  We give utilities a monopoly and they are regulated in terms of pricing, but it's hard to regulate quality and it doesn't help when regulators "lose the plot" and start demanding things unrelated to safety, reliability and cost.

Things like water, gas and electricity should be so cheap and reliable that it isn't worthwhile to try and produce them on your own.  The fact that people are spending their own money to go off-grid, tells us that if you run a monopoly badly enough, you bring DIY into range for people.  The same kind of thing is impossible to ignore in public education: Eventually, economies of scale and monopolies aren't enough to overcome fat, dumb and lazy.

Wordle 64

 

Focus smelt steam.

Wordle 63

 

In retrospect, I should have made FOCUS my 3rd guess.  The game really doesn't like to use an S as a plural.  If it uses an S, it is integral to the structure of the 5-letter word.

I sometimes can make a statement or sentence from my guesses:

Today, focus foils forms, foxes.