Sena brought home a carton of iced coffee this afternoon. This is our first time trying it. It’s a vanilla flavor brew. It’s pretty good! I always thought coffee had to be hot to be good. And I’ve always taken it black. We both like the vanilla flavor.
A 2012 article on The Daily Meal says New Yorkers drink the most iced coffee. It’s been growing in popularity since 2010.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) held a Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) meeting to discuss updated recommendations for Covid-19 vaccine use on May 11, 2023. You can view the YouTube recording of the meeting and view presentation slides at this link. The meeting was designed for clinicians.
The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will meet June 15, 2023 from 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ET “to discuss and make recommendations on the selection of strain(s) to be included in the periodic updated COVID-19 vaccines for the 2023-2024 vaccination campaign. This discussion will include consideration of the vaccine composition for fall to winter, 2023-2024.”
Today is Memorial Day 2023. A moment of silence.
There will be a public ceremony at Oak Hill Cemetery in Iowa City at 11:15 a.m., May 29, 2023.
Sena has been letting her juggling balls take a nap lately. The reason is that she has been very busy in her garden. The balls are either on the floor where she drops them—or placed neatly on a footstool.
I left my assistant coach to encourage her to practice. Unfortunately, he’s been sleeping on the job.
However, last night she practiced because I could hear balls dropping!
A no swimming order has been issued as of yesterday for Sand Lake at Terry Trueblood Recreation Area, due to E. coli bacteria contamination. Updates are on Fridays of each week.
I saw the off the head juggling trick on the Juggle Man YouTube. This maneuver is off the wall. I looked at a couple of other videos because I just could not get the hang of it. One juggling teacher says it’s an “easy” trick. After fumbling a couple hundred times, I’m wondering why I’m hitting this wall with it.
I got the pattern wrong to start off—but that was the only way I could do it at all. When I started getting the pattern right, I was even more impressed with the jugglers who can make it look easy.
The two-ball practice I saw on one juggler’s video was painful. If you’re a guy and you’re doing the claw catch as instructed by some teachers, watch out. You can see what I mean in the video, and I’m not acting in that clip!
And once again, I’m having trouble letting go of a key ball that would allow me to finish the trick by smoothly moving back into the cascade.
I’ll keep you posted.
The 2023 Iowa Cty Public Art Program unfolds soon. The call for art submissions is on! The new temporary exhibits will go display August 7, 2023 through July 2024. Application information is at this link.
It’s that time of year again; the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) food drive. Learn more about it at this link.
Donors can fill a bag with non-perishable food items and place it by their mailboxes, which letter carriers will pick on the second Saturday in May, which is May 13, 2023.
Help stamp out hunger!
This is an update to my progress in ugly juggling tricks. I have a short video of the ones I’ve been practicing the most and one new one.
The new trick is called “Finger Plex” by JuggleMan, who is Daniel Menendez, an astonishing juggling expert you can learn more about at his YouTube site, YouJuggle. While I was trying to imitate it, I wished for a slow-motion clip of it. I hope I’m doing it right because I included a slow-motion clip of the trick in my video.
I have looked for a definition of “plex” pertaining to juggling. I haven’t found it yet. The word “plex” itself usually is described as a combining form in dictionaries, usually about building sections, for example “duplex,” “multiplex,” and so on. Even the Scrabble dictionary gives the meaning as “multiplex.”
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