Locator: 48664TESLA.
Locator: 48664AUSTIN.
Quick! How many registered vehicles are there in Austin, Texas?
- As of Fiscal Year 2024, Travis County—which encompasses the city of Austin—had approximately 993,487 registered vehicles. This figure includes all vehicle types, such as passenger cars, trucks, motorcycles, and commercial vehicles.
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The Museum Page
Today we visited an exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX: masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalarie, Berlin. Link here.
In response to the Impressionism period in France in the mid- to late-1800s, a new school developed in Germany, first appearing about 1900 and lasting to around 1920, when it was replaced by The New Objectivity.
There were a number of paintings with regard to religion and I finally "understand" how the following festivals and religious dates are related:
- often, but not always, Easter and Passover coincide
- Easter, April 20, 2025; crucifixion, two days earlier, Friday, April 18, 2025
- the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox
- Passover, evening of Saturday, April 12, 2025 - Sunday, April 20, 2025;
- 15th day of the month of Nivan
- the first night of a full moon after the spring equinox
- Pentecost, June 8, 2025;
- the day the Christian church was established
- Shuvuot, evenings of Sunday, June 1, 2025 - Tuesday, June 3, 2025;
- always on the sixth of Sivan
- Sivan: the month of Matan Torah -- the giving of the Torah
- Shavuot, "weeks" in Hebrew, the Festival of Weeks, marks the day the Torah was given at Mount Sinai
- celebrates all things dairy;
- Ashkenzai Jews: cheesecake, blintzes (my favorite), noodle kugel (sour cream or cottage cheese) and kreplach (triangular, cheese-filled dumplings)
- Sephardic Jews: bourekas (originated in Turkey, filled with feta or other mild white cheese)
- seventh Sunday of Easter
- Eastertide
- Ordinary Time
- 50 days
Reminiscing:
I don't know if it's any longer there, but there was a deli in/near Echo Park, Los Angeles, which had the best kosher desserts. In addition, I remember incredible Jewish brunches at 4-star hotels. I know these experiences were incredible; it was only later I learned exactly how incredible they were. I have no regrets that I spent 30 years in the USAF and half of that time overseas, but I do think about having missed 30 years of Los Angeles. Wow.
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The Book Page
Theodore Roosevelt's Autobiography of the Rough Riders
After organizing and training in San Antonio, the 1,000+ men and 1,200 horses and mules, took the train to Tampa, Florida. From there the Rough Riders sailed to the southeast tip of Cuba, and landed fourteen miles east of Santiago, at/near the small village of Daquiri (sic), the birthplace of the Daiquiri.
Incredibly interesting book.
