"Beneath city lights,
Buenos Aires sports Kelly Green,
For St. Paddy’s cheer."
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| From 2024 03 14 Argentina Patagonia |
Today's photo-of-the-day is the view from our hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Saint Patrick's Day in 2024. Across the street is the most famous Irish Pub in Buenos Aires, The Kilkenny.
After the jump, The Kilkenny.
"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The City of Richardson's Holly Water Tower lost all pressure on Thursday, triggering an alert on the City's website, on social media, and elsewhere (we'll come back to that) to boil water before usage. City staff and volunteers quickly moved into action acquiring truckloads of bottled water for distribution to affected residents. All well and good. Triage before post-mortem, you know. There'll be time enough for questions later. First things first. The City is testing water and hopes to have results back Friday, November 8. When it's deemed safe to drink again, the City will spread the word...somehow.
When that day comes, there are some questions that I'd like the City to publish answers for.
November 5 was disappointing, but not a surprise. It's certainly not like 2016, where the result did catch me by surprise. This time, I took a wait-and-see attitude. Two weeks before the election, I told someone struggling to be optimistic that "the most I can offer is what keeps me from despair. The odds are pretty much 50/50. That's not a reason to be optimistic, but it's equally not a reason to be pessimistic."
Now that the results are in, and Donald Trump's win over Kamala Harris is certain, it's time for despair. Hear me out.
