Day 159 - more smoke

 Today is the 6th day of the 23rd week, the 8th day of the 6th month, the 159th day of this insane writing experiment, and:

• Best Friends Day
• Betty Picnic Day
• Ghostbusters Day - who you ganna call?  the original movie premiered on this day in 1984
• Jelly-filled Doughnut Day
• Name Your Poison Day
• National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• Upsy Daisy Day 
• World Brain Tumor Day
• World Oceans Day
• World Pet Memorial Day

Quote of the day:
"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." 

~ Robert Orben, American professional comedy writer and magician 

Woke up this morning coughing and with a headache, for obvious reasons.  

Construction update:

Despite all the warnings about limiting outside activity, they are hard at work this morning, jackhammers going by 8:15 AM.  I cannot see from here if they are masked or not, nor if they are wearing ear protection, but both precautions would seem to be necessary.  They stopped about two hours later, presumable to work in the garage below, altho the AQI can't be much better down there 

My son shared a link about one of the staples of our kitchen as far as Frank was concerned - the George Foreman Grill.  The main thing I remember about his career was when he informed the world that everyone of his five sons were named "George" and one of his seven daughters named "Georgette".  Frank loved to cook breakfast on the grill and we must've bought three or four of them, getting larger with each purchase - I'm pretty sure I have one of the older, smaller ones still buried in the back of a cabinet in the kitchen today.  

On this day back in 1949, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four novel was published.  It has been published around the world, named as one of the BBC's 100 most influential novels, and been adapted for radio, TV, movies, theater [both as a musical and a play], opera and ballet.  It has been censored and banned for being pro-communist and sexually explicit content.  It's message has become very real indeed as 'newspeak' has surfaced and taken hold in the form of 'alternative facts'.  It has been years since I read the book, then in 2016, I came to the sudden realization that there are politicians in our country that want power as an end in and of itself, and have no plans to relinquish it when they do get it. Couple that with the advances in tech of late, and one worries about the kind of country we are becoming...

Maybe the reason my head and heart hurt isn't totally due to the Canadian wildfire smoke after all.