Black Edition of SORT.
As of Monday, November 2, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Sport | Off-Road | Touring |
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| 1974 Porsche 914 LE | 2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6 |
1978 Ferrari 400 |
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| Bumblebee! | To crush your enemies. | Prancing Horse |
This was a week long event, put on by Friends of the Children where teams had to go all around Klamath Falls and take a selfie at various interesting or historic places. The entry fee was a $25 donation to a good cause (generational childhood poverty) and it sounded like a fun thing to do. There were daily door prizes and three Grand Prizes at the end, but they didn’t really matter to us*, because most of them were not our style prizes.
There were 42 challenges and we submitted pictures for all of them. On day one, Friday, we captured one, it was the farthest away at a place called Lake of the Woods about 35 miles northwest of us. While we were there we also walked a couple miles along the High Lakes Trail and back to find 4 geocaches. Saturday we walked downtown and back and picked up three more. Sunday was a very cold day, so in between NFL games in the afternoon we walked just a few blocks to get a couple of very local challenges. Monday was a short loop walk to grab three more that were close by. Tuesday we got in the Mini and travelled to the 9 that were really too far away to walk to. Wednesday we did a 5 mile walk all over downtown to capture 18 objectives, almost half of the overall total challenges. We finished up on Thursday by taking 3 at home, 3 by driving around in the Miata and one by walking up the hill behind our house.
You can see all our photos in the gallery I have created here on my page or if you are so inclined you could always go to the event Facebook page to see ours and everyone else’s who participated in the fun.
The picture above is probably our favorite of all we took, but we didn’t use it because the challenge said “A Blue Zones-approved restaurant and take a selfie eating there!”
*Good thing too, because we didn’t win any of the prizes…
Full Fall Edition of SORT.
As of Monday, October 26, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Sport | Off-Road | Touring |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 Audi R8 V10 Spyder | 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser | 2003 BMW 540i Touring |
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| This car just looks like it will be big trouble. | JDM goodness, it’s a Toyota no one will recognize. | Like the 540, but it says touring right in the name! |
Donna received her results on Monday bright and early, I didn’t get mine until this afternoon. So in a way I already figured what my results would be, because of our situation, whatever she was I was, sure to be as well.
SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), DIAGNOSTIC
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Performed at: 01 – LabCorp Seattle
550 17th Avenue Ste 300
Seattle, WA 98122
Lab Director: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx MD, Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
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Testing was performed using the Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay. This nucleic acid amplification test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by LabCorp Laboratories. Nucleic acid amplification tests include PCR and TMA. This test has not been FDA cleared or approved. This test has been authorized by FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). This test is only authorized for the duration of time the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of the emergency use of in vitro diagnostic tests for detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 infection under section 564(b)(1) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3(b) (1), unless the authorization is terminated or revoked sooner.
When diagnostic testing is negative, the possibility of a false negative result should be considered in the context of a patient’s recent exposures and the presence of clinical signs and symptoms consistent with COVID-19. An individual without symptoms of COVID-19 and who is not shedding SARS-CoV-2 virus would expect to have a negative (not detected) result in this assay.
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Component Results
| SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by RT-PCR | |
| Standard Range | Not Detected |
| Your Value | Not Detected |
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Collected on 10/16/2020 12:02 PM from Nasopharynx (Swab)
Resulted on 10/17/2020 10:05 PM
Result Status: Final result
Orange You Glad It’s Monday Edition of SORT.
As of Monday, October 19, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Sport | Off-Road | Touring |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 BMW 2002 5-Speed | 1985 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler | 1972 BMW 2000 Touring |
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| The defining vehicle in the category of sports sedan. | 4″ of lift equals off-road and over everything. | Like the 2002, but it says touring right in the name! |
Oregon was the first state to exclusively go to voting by mail by passing a measure in November 1998 by a 70% to 30% margin after starting with optional for local voting in the late eighties.
Our ballots came thru our mail slot along with a flyer for Bed Bath & Beyond on Friday afternoon. We had planned on filling them out on Saturday, but got to watching college football and didn’t get it done. So we did it this morning.
Even with all falderal from a certain President, we have zero qualms about the process because of this state’s long history with voting by mail. Still, we won’t actually mail our ballots, we dropped them into an official collection box like we did for the primary back in May. Unlike back then though, today we rode the tandem instead of walking.
When we rode into the parking lot where the drop box was, there was a young couple with their toddler standing next to it. We circled the lot a couple of times while they unloaded, then loaded back, their kid so the child could put their ballots in the slot. And all the while they snapped photos of the process to post on social media. I didn’t have a problem waiting this out at all, because I planned on that same sort of exercise for us too (see my InstaGram account.)
As we were loading back up onto the bike to leave, a fellow in a pickup truck cruised up to the box to drop in his ballot. I said to him, “Happy Election Day.” He looked at me sort of quizzically and replied, “Yeah, you too. Have a nice day.” Come to think of it, Happy Election Day does sound a little strange, but what would have been a more appropriate greeting anyway? Merry Election Day? How about “Go Democracy?” Maybe a golf style cheer, “In the Slot!”?
The only downside to the whole Vote by Mail deal is I don’t get a little “I Voted” sticker to wear around all day…
I have been to see a couple of doctors recently and every time I check in to be seen, one of the questions asked is, “Have you been tested for COVID in the last 14 days?” My answer has always been, “No.” Why bother? Neither Donna nor I are exhibiting any symptoms…
Today we changed that answer. Firstly, so that next time (at least for the next two weeks) the answer to that question can be, “Yes.” And secondly, although we have no COVID-19 symptoms, for the last week I have been randomly getting when inhaling through my nose a sort of weird sweet smell and occasionally my back teeth will hurt when biting down. These are not any COVID symptoms I have ever seen listed anywhere, but in the past, these things have meant to me personally, that I am coming down with a flu. But in that case these symptoms show up for maybe a day and then I’m sick. Right now I’m not feeling sick.
The local hospital system has a testing site in a parking lot of one of their medical clinics that is right up the street from us. We pass by it at least every other day. There has rarely ever been a line and today was no exception, but by the time we circled the building to get tested there was one car ahead of us. They weren’t ahead of us for long as they were not in the system and were unsure if their insurance would cover the cost, so they pulled through and parked to the side.
The paperwork took the longest, even with us being already in their system. The test took all of 5 minutes total, but just 5 are seconds spent with a long handled mini brush looking thing in your sinus cavity. Not too unpleasant, but I’m glad I am not in any sort of position where I have to get tested daily.
The test results will take a couple days and I’ll be sure to let you know the results.