Wheelin’

A relatively new sport’s popularity is increasing — office chair racing. Japan has been at it ten years. Teams of three compete on ordinary office furniture for two grueling hours to see which can complete the most laps of a 200 meter course. This year there will be ten events across the country. 55 teams entered one alone. The prize is 90 kilograms of local rice. Facts culled from an article by Jack Tarrant & Yoko Kono at reuters.com, photo from Google Images:

Germany is on board:

Excerpt from an article by Gabriel Hays at foxnews.com: “A research document published on the White House website reveals the Biden administration is open to studying how to block sunlight to save the Earth from climate change.” One question: what would that do to solar energy?

Last night the chart at weather.com predicted cloudy skies until one PM, then rain. Not! It was mostly sunny and humid. Wisely, I displayed only 20% of the floating book shop’s inventory and stood 20 yards away in the shade of a tree. My thanks to the gentleman who bought four DVDs, and to the one who overcompensated me for Psychotechniques: Act Right — Feel Right by Salvatore V. Didato; and to the woman who purchased two Russian translations of Sandra Brown novels; and to Monse`, still exhilirated from her participation yesterday in a group concert of patriotic songs on Staten Island, who took home The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale and a CD of master guitarist Rodrigo. I happened to catch his work while channel surfing recently. Here’s a dazzling duet with Gabriela titled Tamacan. It’s a bit more than three minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qgum7hFXk

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