When we were kids, there was no social media, so reports of the complications of measles was not widespread. From NIM: The most severe complications of measles are blindness, pneumonia, and encephalitis, leading to case fatality rates ranging from 0.1% in industrial countries to 15% in developing countries [7, 8]. Severe complications of measles are more common in children under 5 years and adults older than 20 years old.

Now we have the anti-vaxers and children from other countries that do not have a high vax rate coming in and infecting unvaxed children, so it is becoming more of a risk. Though death is a very small percentage, it is nonetheless real to the involved families.

I don't have much of a reaction either, but it nearly killed my sister. Someone was burning it and she went thru the smoke.

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Thursday evening, as I was driving down the main street I'm my 55+ community, I noted the moon sitting perfectly between the rows of elms (I think) that lone the street. I stepped out to the middle of the street to snap this on my mobile phone. Just a quickie - no post processing.

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Common sense? 🤣🤣🤣
Not too much of that around any more, as evidenced by Congress.

The news here in Portland has covered it quite extensively. I think they are still dissecting it and will allow the ocean to do it's thing in the next storm.

Magnolia? It's beautiful.

In Oregon it would be classified as Elder Abuse.

I loved so many of his songs. His song "I Wanna Talk About Me" was my introduction to country music. I was just station flipping when I came across it and was hooked. "Don't Let the Old Man In" (2019) always made me tear up. "Red Solo Cup" always made me smile and remember a day a few years ago when at a tiny riverside burger shack after kayaking, I ordered a gin and tonic. The girl who served me brought it in a red Solo cup, and I thought, Oh, great, an ounce of gin and a lot of tonic and ice. Nope. The gin was proportional to the size of the cup! John had to carry me back to the truck!

In Los Angeles, if called for jury duty, you registered, then called in every morning between xx dates at xx time to find out if you were to appear the following day. Pretty civilized way to do it.

In the few weddings and birthdays my husband and I shot upon request, we found that posed brought better results. Candids resulted in people with mouths open while eating, messy tables, blinking eyes, loopy smiles, etc. Posed subjects can still appear to be having fun if you can get their attention and have them make a toast or something.

I've known so many people who cheat the system. Once on SNAP but when they got better employment and didn't qualify again but never went off the program. A coworker making $40k in the 90s bragged about getting free eggs, milk and other staples. In my opinion, that is reprehensible. Like workers making hundreds a week under the table. People making $50-60k never filing a tax return. 👿

I make my own folders for everything, too. My D drive (I've been migrating from C to D) is organized like a filing cabinet, as I learned back in the olden days. Folders for drawers, subfolders by topic, and sometimes subfolders in there. And I know where everything is! I know people who keep everything on their desktop! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😬

Oh, golly, I remember spitting in the SCUBA mask! I haven't dived since early 1980s (3 certifications). Thanks for the memory.

No white fringe here.