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I got about 2/3 of the way through playing Small World world at Monday night gaming. I had to bail because Abigail said she missed me, so I rushed home. I think it takes a few playings to get the hang of all the characters and their powers. We all played quietly, focusing on the many many pieces on the board.

Pope Francis passed away 2 weeks ago. Would it be strange and deeply offensive if I put on a pope hat, robes, and a cross around my neck and posted a photo here? Well, that is what Donald Trump did. I am loathe to repost it but proof of this offense needed.

What if a week after the pope passed away, I said I thought I should be the next pope? Would that be strange and offensive? That’s what Donald Trump did.

It is disturbing in the extreme that anyone would seriously support such a notion. That is what the “Honorable” Republican senator from South Carolina did with his sycophantic remarks.

I tried Visible Wireless because they are an MNVO for Verizon and those towers have slightly better service at my daughter’s elementary school than the other networks.

But there is, apparently, congestion on their network most of the day in my area. With my phone sitting in front of me on my desk, calls often go straight to voicemail, with wifi calling on or off. Texts take 2-60 minutes to arrive. Their website is so terribly slow; logging in takes 13 seconds, every page load takes 3 seconds. Ugh.

I called support and they walked me through a 40 minute eSIM card reset that didn’t help. On the next call, they sent me a physical SIM card to try to fix the issue but it did not.

I upgraded to “Visible+” in the hopes that more money would magically fix the problem, but no.

After 2 months of trying, I’ve got to say goodbye to Visible Wireless.

This is a followup to my long running work on getting people to understand the proper medical symbol, the Rod of Asclepius. Read.

I finally reached someone at Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Dr. Alfredo Sansone, Executive Publisher at Elsevier and STM Journals.

Right now,  it appears that Dr. Sansone doesn’t appear interested in making sure good and correct articles are published and visible, but to… I don’t know! He responded to my first message having obviously not read it thoughtfully. For example, I made a summative statement and backed it up with a detailed reasoning along with several hundred citations (yes, several hundred). But his response was to attack the summative statement in a sideways manner, ignoring all the rest. His other disagreements with my thesis just don’t make sense. I followed up with a long clarifying letter, hoping to further progress but while he has definitely viewed it, and another message I sent, he hasn’t responded. I’m considering publishing our weird interaction and just giving up on this part of the project.

I had pursued this because when you google “medical symbol” an article on Dr. Sansone’s Mayo Clinic Proceedings (MCP) site came up first. Today I note that the MCP article doesn’t come up first any more! Google still gets the answer wrong in summary, but EVERY article it links to reports that the Rod of Asclepius is the more appropriate symbol.