Recent Events - Updated with Univision Policy

Last Saturday and Sunday we finally got out on short rides each day.  Each ride had a screaming head wind on the way back.  When you leave the RV park, there's only one interesting direction in which to go, so you get what you get wind wise.  We're pretending headwinds are like riding hills.  The Santa Cruz is very green, the water treatment plant is releasing treated water to encourage plants and trees to grow, and for animals to come back.  I took exactly one picture on both rides.  I will do better in the future.  The sky is that color in the fall and winter.

Monday Jim had a 9:30 appointment with the Tucson PCP, AKA the good PCP.  She pretty much personifies what good doctoring looks like.  Anyway, there was an accident on I10 west bound involving six cars.  The backups held commuters at a standstill for two hours.  We got off the freeway.  There is a huge construction project that has removed four miles of the freeway, and closed two on/off ramps.  It's not expected to complete until the end of 2024.  Getting to Costco will be impacted by this.

While sitting at a traffic light we saw this.  I have no words.

After the doctor, we went to many places and drove many miles.  Since we were in the north end, we decided just to do all of the north end errands.  We procured a CO monitor.  We bought this because the range burners are engaged in incomplete combustion.  My brand new pot has been sooted.  The tips of the flames are orange.  We're going to have to call the manufacturer and ask for instructions on how to adjust the burners' gas flow.  The manual mentions that it can be done, but not how.  There is exactly nothing on youtube about this range.  I would really like to replace the stove, but we're going to have to do surgery on the drawer fronts next to the stove.  New stoves are bigger than old ones.

Much of this washed off, but not all.  This is just tragic.  It's also on the bottom of my new 10.25 inch Lodge cast iron skillet.

There have been many Amazon trucks bringing us many things.  One of the things was a set of darling bird wine bottle stoppers.  Some of those will be going home with us.

A terrible thing has happened.  Univision, a huge Spanish language television station has changed hands.  The new owners are trumpists.  They have cancelled all of Biden's ad buys in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Florida.  This is just the pits.  The orange dumpster fire entertained three of the new top execs at Mar a Lardo, gave an on camera interview, and was rewarded with knocking Biden's ads off the channel.  This is bad.  Washington Post has an article up on the subject.  While looking for that link, I saw a headline on the Seattle Times that the Sinclair has ended its association with Univision, I don't know why since I'm paywalled out of their content.  I am once again disconsolate, despite the recent Democratic victories.  Another four years of the dumpster fire will be the end of this country.

The parallels are clear, he wants to be a dictator.

So, enjoy the next year, if Biden loses we're all toast.

Updated:  From a community note on twitter.

The cancellation was NOT for all Biden ads, but only ones scheduled to run during a Trump interview. The new Univision policy prevents opposition ads during single-candidate interviews, meaning that Trump ads would similarly not be allowed to run during a Biden interview.

At this point, I don't know if this is true, of if the original WAPO article is true.

Here is a thread talking about the issue.