Here’s the Jack Smith Report that has been so difficult to release — take the time to read it. The first two sentences is a great start:

Trump is having a fit… must be a lot of truths in this… so read it

Maisy’s the one, coming home with us tomorrow! She was very sociable with us, while Boomer was afraid, hiding in a corner, pawing at the door to get out, wouldn’t come for treats or pets. Wanted nothing to do with us, though he was attached to the shelter worker.

Here he is, Boomer, the one who caught Alan’s attention, 3.5 year old male, over puppy stage. Here’s the link for Boomer:

We were on a bench in the cat room, and as soon as Alan crawled down in the middle of the floor, Boomer ran over to me for attention and I was able to hold him in my lap. He did that a couple times, and we tried again, experimenting, Alan moving from the bench to the floor, and he’d jump up. Seriously avoiding Alan. Maisy, on the other hand was an equal opportunity attention seeking grrrrrrrrrl. Loves balls, chew toys, and we have many, and she’ll love going to the tennis court to “play tennis.” We have some time to get the house ready, like dig out the cloth crate, put the dog food bucket back in the mudroom and DOH! get some dog food, sort out the dog toys (I did gather them and they’re washed), and lay out the many dog beds (she’s pretty much the same size as Sadie, our “medium” pup).

Some backstory — she is 6.5 years old (much prefer older dog) and she and Boomer lived together, though not really bonded, and lived with cats. Their owner needed to move to apartment and was upset to lose them. She’d been boarded at the shelter before and they went to our vet, so she’s a known quantity. They haven’t been at shelter long, were just posted yesterday, and they’ve lived with cats so we’ll see how she does with ours — this is major consideration (there’s a 21 day return clause).

December 10, 2024 was the Power Plant Siting Act Annual Hearing. It was before ALJ Christa Moseng, and there were very few commenters. I’m not seeing any minutes, and don’t know if they’ll ever be posted. There were only two of us commenting, myself, and Dan Wanbeke, who has a CapX 2020 line on his land. If the proposed MN Energy CON line is built, he could be surrounded by transmission.

Wanbeke gave a detailed description of his experience and takeaways, one of the most important was a comment of the PUC’s Bob Cupit (since retired):

There are winners, and there are losers.

A very interesting part of Wambeke’s testimony was regarding the stray voltage problem, all the water in their farm was energized, and the shower tested at 15 VOLTS! The local utility has been out many times, and when Capx 2020 was down for a brief time, no stray voltage, and when it was again energized, the stray voltage was back. He testified about induction current, that when there’s a distribution line running parallel to a massive transmission line, there can be induction current (this also happens with pipelines), and the distribution lines are indeed parallel with CapX transmission. This is NOT rocket science, and the CapX utilities better deal with this. If meeting minutes come out, I’ll post, though the thought occurs to me that this was a “hearing,” so it will probably be a top secret transcript. Will keep an eye out.

These next two tidbits were handouts at the hearing:

And now on to comments filed since:

FYI, the DOT “Policy of Accommodation” that should be entered in every docket, because it sets out how utilities can interact when projects are proposed near roads — I’ve observed cases where the utility paid no attention to DOT comments and landowners nearby were screwed with little notice because utility had to quickly alter plans because DOT would not allow planned placement:

On to the regular folks, so far just two of us!

I’d made oral comments at the hearing (via web), but had to put it in writing to be more specific, because the changes are immense, and there needs to be a record. As I said in my Comment, not for the first time, “I’m disgusted, frustrated, incensed, and committed to showing up before the Public Utilities Commission until I drop dead someday in the large hearing room.” I had to file a corrected version, was bleary-eyed and found typos, missing words and punctuation, and FYI, the first one below has been corrected:

This one, from Kristen Eide-Tollefson for CURE, Communities United for Responsible Energy, is important because she’s seen the changes over the decades, THREE decades, of dealing with the Power Plant Siting Act. Now it no longer exists, hence Eulogy for the PPSA:

Let’s trot out this one again, we’re overdue for a Transmission Transition:

Couldn’t he have at least been sentenced for 4 years of (White) House arrest, ankle monitor, and be required to turn in his passport?

I can’t imagine how this can work.

And then there’s security clearance — what’s required for a guy who hides boxes with classified material in a bathroom, on a stage in ballroom, whisks many file boxes of them out of White House to airplane — and it’s disturbing news — per Uniform Code of Military Justice page:

So he’s given free rein, and he, with the Supreme Court’s backing, can do anything as long as it’s “official business.” Great, just great… everyone on 5th Avenue best be wearing bullet-proof vests.

Who’s he, who’s his administration coming after?

And now, need to shut off internet — too much already today.

Impact of coffee intake on human aging: Epidemiology and cellular mechanisms

Potential 17% impact!

CHEERS!