Missive #389

61. The Bread in the Pond

Nasruddin’s son was walking by the pond eating some bread. When he leaned over to look in the water, the bread fell out of his hand.

Then he saw that another boy in the pond had taken his bread, so he ran home crying and told his father what had happened. “Someone in the pond stole my bread!” he sobbed.

Nasruddin went to the pond and looked in the water. He saw a bearded man, about his own age.

“Hey there, old man!” he shouted. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself, stealing bread from a little boy like that.”

This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-2022 Laura Gibbs

I have had my basement heater hooked up since just before the freeze on 7 November. It then went down to 27°F on the 8th and has been in the mid to upper 30 for a low since then. The forecast is for freezing mornings to return next Monday with a hard freeze Wednesday morning. The past week has been cold enough for me so I’m not looking forward to that forecast.

The Mini is positioned almost in the same place it was before. It still has Desperado as an obstruction on the West and Southwest part of the sky. These are the readings that I got yesterday using https://www.highspeedinternet.com/tools/speed-test/starlink:

@8:48 Download 90.09Mbps, Upload 6.22Mbps, Latency 33ms
@12:41 Download 147.20Mbps, Upload 12.34Mbps, Latency 32ms
@14:27 Download 159.14Mbps, Upload 8.04Mbps, Latency 34ms