Apple: temporarily suspends sales in Turkey -- link here --
- Apple appears to have temporarily halted sales of devices in Turkey as the country's economic crisis deepened on Tuesday morning. The lira dropped 15 percent after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan staunchly defended recent rate cuts,
- the currency drop has been telegraphed for the past two weeks;
EVs: are we being played? LOL. From Todd Fernandez:
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A Wonderful Thanksgiving Week
It's pretty much complete. A few details yet to be finished but in the big scheme of things the "bat cave" is complete. The last "piece" was an "easy chair" and that was brought down / in last night. I've bought new Christmas lights, an assortment of colors and sizes, and as soon as Sophia has time, we will put them up in the "cave." Readers will probably see a lot of photos of the "cave" over the next few years. Sophia says that it feels "cool" and "damp" like a real "bat cave." I did not / do not feel the dampness, but the temperature is exactly perfect.
The "bat cave" is physically separated from the apartment which really makes it so much more like the real "thing." No one except Sophia and I know what we have, but we will eventually show them.
This wall still has a lot of white space. I hate hiding office supplies in drawers. I want them out where I can easily see them and have immediate access.
Everything has a special meaning for me.
The cloth painting is from Africa. Genuine. Brought back by our younger daughter where she did some missionary work in Uganda. Yes, that Uganda. The fox, a colored pencil drawing by Sophia when she was "remote learning," first grade last year. It was a several week project. The little photograph: the two older granddaughters eleven years ago, I believe, in that big, big park on the north side of Los Angeles where the observatory exists. Enjoying ice cream. Halcyon days.
The large metal map of the United States. I do not know from where that came, but possibly from the granddaughters' other grandfather. We've picked up little magnetic Monopoly pieces wherever and Sophia uses them to keep track of where members of her extended family lives or where her immediate family is traveling. I haven't kept up with it but looking at it now, it is incredibly accurate. Pretty good for a seven-year old.
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We're Gonna Live Forever In This Little Bat Cave
I've listened to a dozen covers of this song, but never thought to see who wrote it? At wiki: Bennie Binion, Dennis Hromek, and, yes, Merle Haggard.
