OMG! I just came back from our neighborhood grocery store to pick up a breakfast item. I rode my bike -- without wearing a mask. I noted there were three types of shoppers braving Wuhan flu: those who were wearing masks (they were in the majority); those who not wearing masks (real risk-takers); and those who wore masks on their chin with mouth and nose uncovered. But OMG! I have never seen this store so well stocked. Aisles were overflowing; every shelf full, including toilet paper and paper towels. Coffins full of eggs. And $1.49/dozen.
Weather: cooler than I expected. Supposed to be a warm day. And the humidity and the breeze made it feel cooler than it really was. Quite cloudy but not overcast.
EV charging points in the US: flat, since 2018 -- S&P Global Platts --
Reminder: having trouble sending large files or movies via Yahoo!Mail or gmail? FireFox Sends has the solution and it's pretty clever. It's been out there for years (?) and it still works.
Ecdysis: word for the day.
Bonus word for the day: epiphany. This was a tough one for me. No, not epiphany, the root word, the Greek word, phanero. The latter means to reveal itself; to bring to light; to manifest itself. I was unable to think of an English word that derived from the Greek phanero. But a google search was revealing -- the English word "epiphany" derives from phanero. Can't wait to share with Arianna.
Interestingly, "fantastic" can be traced back to phanero --
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘unreal’): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein ‘make visible’, phantazesthai ‘have visions, imagine’, from phantos ‘visible’ (related to phainein ‘to show’). From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used. So, it turns out ...
and now any number of possibilities ...
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