Good morning from our hosts' very good boy, who is /not/ getting our bagels.
(The pudge is medication side effects.)

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 https://open.substack.com/pub/brianklaas/p/did-leaded-gasoline-cause-a-huge?r=csb40&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email 

 How old am I? 
I'm so old I did a lot of my homework using the World Book Encyclopedia, with the green and white bindings - the volumes lived on the built-in shelves between the kitchen and living room in our Levitt house, as did the radio which was always tuned to WQXR.
#OldPeopleOfMastodon 

 Four people were absent from band rehearsal last night due to covid, and two people were missing from this afternoon's Craft'n'Chat ditto. Not as many as the peak but higher than it's been since the beginning of the year.