Notes From All Over -- The Early Evening Edition -- April 22, 2021

GDP Now, 1Q21, link here:

• latest estimate, April 16, 2021: 8.3%
• next estimate: Monday, April 26, 2021

Goldman Sachs: much lower estimate but it appears Goldman Sach is suggesting that "8%+ GDP" will just take a bit longer to show up, link here:

• current consensus, 1Q21: 5.4%; range as high as 7.5%; no estimates as high as 8.3%
• consensus, 2Q21: 8.1%; range as high as 10.5%; 
• by mid-terms (2022), GDP growth significantly reduced;  

The market today: it was doing great until Biden spoke. This reminds me of the Obama administration. Every time the market was doing very well, it crashed after Obama spoke. 

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Back to the Bakken

BR's Renegade wells in Sand Creek have been updated.

Western North Dakota:

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Urban Saga

Some millennial fathers are so busy now they actually schedule dinner dates with their school children. I'm not talking about divorced parents; I'm talking about married couples. 

And when they go out to eat, invariably the father is on his smart phone -- okay, let's be honest here -- his iPhone. Do millennials that schedule dinner time with their children like they schedule "calls" all day long use any phones other than iPhones?

But I digress.

Yes, the distracted parents. The parents that are so concerned about screen time.

From The Atlantic three  years ago:

The Dangers of Distracted Parenting. When it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own.

I didn't read the article. I was distracted by Suzi Quatro on YouTube. 

Speaking of which.

We recently moved to a new apartment. It's been a long time since I've been this happy with a new place to live. May and I now have a sit-down dinner every evening. I pretty much do all the cooking. I certainly do all the [dish] washing, etc. 

There are a lot of articles out there about the benefits of meditation. Washing dishes, for me, is my way of meditating. I love doing dishes. May and I have never used a dishwasher in our lives except to store pots and pans. 

With the move, we also discontinued all cable television. We have internet and wi-fi only. We are using this time to decide which "television" package we want. If left up to me, I wouldn't get television. It's been about a month now and I don't miss television at all. 

Having said that, the "deals" out there are incredible once you "cut" the Spectrum "thing." 

It is truly amazing. 

So now I'm watching the most incredible resolution on the biggest Apple desktop computer available -- and now Apple is coming out with an even "better" desktop computers -- the new ones are 11 millimeters thick -- that's one millimeter more than a centimeter. There are 2.54 centimeters in an inch.

But we're looking at our television options. As noted earlier, if up to me, I wouldn't go back to television. But May has some favorite shows -- so that will probably determine which "streaming" service we will go with. May will likely go with Hulu. I have to admit the YouTube package looks pretty good.

So, we'll see.

Dinner tonight was delayed until 9:15 p.m. May took Olivia to her soccer game. Olivia plays on two different "club" teams as well as the high school soccer team, which took third in the state this year. 

For the club teams, she plays with one team that is "her age" team and for one team that is a year ahead of her ("playing up" as they say).

In the game tonight, her team won, 2 - 1. After the game it was noted that her "other" team was playing the next game. May asked if Olivia would be playing that game also. Nope. Apparently some rule that club team players can only play one game per day. The reason Olivia was asked to play the game she did, other than the second game? The game she played, according to her coach, was a must-win game and for a must-win game the coach wants Olivia. 

Okay. I guess I've rambled enough. I still can't believe how crisp the resolution is on this huge Apple computer screen. I can only imagine what Olivia will be watching when she's my age.

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Modified Spatchcock Chicken

Modified? Instead of removing the backbone, I just left it in; a whole easier.