Candlepin bowling is not as easy as it looks but then I've never seen so many 7-10 splits made. It's great for children due to the small size of the balls. You can make reservations and have gutter guards on the lanes so the kiddies never miss hitting something. My score is much better with them too! Great post. Rob Caldwell is a Maine institution and 207 is a highly regarded nightly show.

At least there's an arrow! Some older models don't have that. In the freezer world, the higher the number the colder it gets.

January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.

By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools.

From The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin. Very good read.

11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.

There's nothing better than a well done steak with ketchup. Preferably Heinz. And McDonald's most definitely has acceptable food. I mean they have to since they have Michelin prices.

Memories. And a great read. Count me in the group saying it was the funniest movie ever. But I was only 17 so what did I know? Might not be that today but it's right up there.

Up next, let's talk about asparagus.

Not mentioned in the Atlas Obscura article but included in a story in the Portland Press Herald:

During his research, Chan found that in the 1888 Signal Corps annual report there was a listing of several volunteer weather observers, including Mary C. Bennett, of Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois.

Better direct link for Dorothy Fontana: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/D.C._Fontana

What about Bob?

I got mine! Get yours at the NeatoShop. On sale even!:

https://www.neatoshop.com/product/Die-Hard-Hans-Gruber-Nakatomi-Tower-Christmas-Knit-Pattern

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According to my chocolate Advent Calendar, Christmas is in three days.

How bats carry deadly diseases without dying. Ok. Some. Bats rarely get sick? Uhh.. No. No in a big way. There's this disease called White Nose Syndrome that over the past several years has wiped out close to 90% of the brown bat population in the Northeast. It can kill up to 100% of a colony in hibernation. I had a nice little colony in a small patch of woods next to my house. Summer nights at sunset was great to sit on the porch and watch them come out. They'd fly all around the house taking out mosquitoes. That ended a long time ago.