Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #15 for 2020...  Wild at Heart #5 "Consuelo's Kiss", written in 1991 by Barry Gifford.

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"High Points" along the trails I've visited in March 2020.

• Pine Mountain, Tunxis Trail, Barkhamsted, CT
• Indian Council Caves, Tunxis Trail, Barkhamsted, CT
• East Barndoor Hills, McLean Reservation, Granby, CT
• Hill 872', Whitiker Woods, Somers, CT
• Gulf Brook Hill, Shenipsit State Forest, Somers, CT

Music 2020...

Effort #13,  "Knocking on Heaven's Door"...  recorded as part of the Dark Heart Duo's "End of Chemo" e.p. sessions, from August 2nd, 2019.  "S" once again on vocals.

3-mile run along Main Street in a light rain, early evening.

Run into work, 5.5-miles, and work on FEMA Mitigation Grant.

Great day weather-wise, longish day at work.  Ran home, 5.5-miles.

Late run in McLean (4:45 - 6:00 p.m.), fifty or so degrees and sunny.  Managed a comfortable pace of 5 mph over 6-miles.

5.5-miles into work mid-day.

Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #14 for 2020...  "The Grifters", a Jim Thompson classic that was made into a 1990 movie.  The novel was published in 1963.

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Current Edition Cover

RIP Jim Thomson

DVD Cover Image of 1990 Film

Stars of the Film

Old Edition Cover Art

Another Old Version

Music 2020...

Effort #12,  "Zombie (a capella)"...  recorded as part of the Dark Heart Duo's "End of Chemo" e.p. sessions, from August 2nd, 2019.  This was Evil's friend "S" on vocals.

Sunny and right around 40 degrees, shorts and long sleeve tee weather.  Rambled through McLean Game Refuge for 8.6-miles.

Ran into work today, to pick up my car, 5.5-miles.

Ran home from work today, 5.5-miles.

And...   Corona 19 Virus is presenting changes for us all.  I don't comment on "work" often, but as a wastewater operator, we are most likely (by accounts from CDC & WHO) being exposed a bit more than the average citizen to the virus.  

Last week, as we were informed by our governing body the WEF (Water Environment Federation) of the folliwng:

"...it was confirmed that the virus studies investigating persistence of coronavirus surrogates and SARS in wastewater highlight that in the absence of disinfection, the virus can survive in wastewater from hours to days."

Comparison chart between Coronavirus and SARS:

Etiology:                RNA virus from Coronaviridae family for Cononavirus and SARS

Source:                 Zoonotic                

Transmission:         Direct contact w/ infected person respiratory droplets.

Incubation period:   2 to 14 days for both.

Airborne:             Cononavirus:  Unknown SARS:  Yes

Detected in feces:   Cononavirus:  Yes SARS:  Yes

In wastewater:         Cononavirus:  Likely SARS:  Yes

We are going to do our best to be available over the next months.  We are taking precautions and splitting our staff up to minimize contact with each other.

Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #13 for 2020...  "The Way Some People Die", book three of Ross MacDonald's Archer series, published in 1951.

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 Original Edition

3-mile run along Main Street just prior to dark.