(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . IAN: September 3, 2023 - Summer's end [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-02 I don’t know what’s going to happen anywhere. I am following the news like everybody else; and getting mightily sick of Trumplethinskin. As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care! IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a PM to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news! ************************* Fundamental constants, which have been thought to be unchanging, turn out to have variability ranges. This has quite an effect on living cells. NASA’s new website and streaming service. Red ochre found at an archaeological site near Carlisle in England confirms the descriptions of a Greek explorer, Pytheas of Massalia, of the British Isles as “Prettanike” — roughly ‘the land of the painted ones’. Thirty-nine colors you may not know. Stereoscopic photography has revealed previously unknown pictures of animals in a new study of cave art at La Pasiega cave, Cantabria. The most distant star ever detected from Earth. Researchers have found a couple of blood biomarkers that appear to predict long-COVID brain fog. A study of a Bronze Age family from a burial site in the southern Urals. ************************* My sister-in-law’s funeral won’t happen for a week or two. Apparently, the mortuaries in Los Angeles are kind of busy. August finished on a high note, I must say. I got up for the day on the 31st, went into the bathroom, and there was a huge wet mess on the floor. The line into my toilet was leaking. I had towels and a pot to deal with the problem, but it was mid-afternoon before the guy got here to repair the leak — and it was NOT a slow one. A major limb on the tree in my sister’s backyard broke off in the middle of the night Thursday. She says the only other damage might be the hydrangea bush it landed on. My mother is moved. She was determined to be nasty about it for several days, but when one of my brothers dropped by on Friday, he said she was in the dining hall talking to somebody and seemed to be enjoying it, so he left her to it. The men in the family have been moving the stuff remaining at her old place into storage — they seem to have made a major dent in it on Friday because my sister texted everybody that a couple more hours on Saturday would do it. During the heat wave, I stopped some of the exercises I was doing. This was a mistake, though — I won’t do it again. ************************* Love you guys! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/2/2188958/-IAN-September-3-2023-Summer-s-end Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/