Stephen Michael Kellat

Ending The Week

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♫ I'm starting to weigh in below 185 pounds now. Ultimately the goal is to get nearer to a healthy Body Mass Index ("BMI"). One of the big risk factors of the pandemic was/is to have a BMI of 30 or higher. Thankfully I am fully vaccinated but that obesity issue presents problems in so many other areas of life that it has to be dealt with to allow for okay living.


♫ I now have an opponent for the general election in November. There is no hurry to start campaigning at the moment.


♫ The school district lost on its operating levy question on Tuesday's ballot. They built up quite a bit of ill will in the community. Doing things like randomly buying buildings so as to shut out charter school operators from entering the area while claiming pretextual reasons for the purchase will most definitely annoy voters. If the district was a high-performing district where students were actually learning and growing then I could perhaps understand such actions. The school district has an over five year streak of utterly failing grades on the state performance reports, though! If they have enough money to waste on buying an empty disused Roman Catholic school building that they then decide to do nothing with after 18 months then the plea of poverty falls flat.


♫ I am trying to figure out why I cannot get Greenstone Digital Library software to run on a Raspberry Pi. That they ship private libraries makes it not very portable outside x86/amd64 contexts in the first instance.


♫ The "Second Reader" is almost done reviewing the third novella.


♫ I have a treadmill now. Opportunities are presented thereby.