Yesterday was good but tiring. Last night, I made my first pivot transfer rotating to my stump side using a walker. That is much more difficult than rotating toward the good leg. I successfully landed on a portable commode. While not ideal, it sure beats Republicating in a bedpan. I made seven laps around the unit. Five was my previous high. I almost ketched me a purdy nurse, but not quite. 
Short Takes:When warm water stored below the surface of the western Pacific ocean moves east along the equator it moves the earth’s tropical atmospheric convection cells with it. Responding to the eastward shift in the tropical convection, the jet stream moves south on normal on the west coast bringing heavy winter rains to California in strong El Niño years. With this year’s El Niño at record or near record strength NOAA’s CFS climate model predicts a strong southward drop of the storm track off the west coast. A very stormy winter can be expected from California, across the gulf states and up the east coast. This year’s intense jet stream pattern will bring much warmer than normal temperatures to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.
El Niño will shift the storm track south this winter into California, the gulf states and the southeast. The northeast and eastern Canada will be much warmer than normal, warmed by flow off the north Pacific.
This winter, California can expect heavy rains, floods and mudslides, but snow levels (elevation of rain snow line, not amounts) will be high because moisture flows from the tropics in an El Niño winter are warm and wet. California’s water situation will improve but ground water levels are unlikely to rebound to levels seen before the drought began. One year’s rains will not alleviate the long-term water problems caused by the record California drought but reservoir levels will rebound.
Click through for much more. It looks like California is about to get Californicated. And Oregon may have a cold winter.
From The New Yorker: There are growing fears among supporters of the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump that his new focus on Muslims is distracting him from his campaign against Mexicans.
After the billionaire said he would consider shutting down mosques if he were President, supporters expressed concern that such signature proposals as a wall with Mexico and mass deportations were being lost in the shuffle.
Carol Foyler, who viewed a recent Trump appearance on television, said that she was “alarmed” to hear him talk about closing mosques “without mentioning the wall with Mexico even once.” “I just worry, I guess, that with all of this talk about Muslims he’s really forgetting about Mexicans,” she said. “It feels kind of like a bait-and-switch.”
But Andy, don’t you think that the hairball will announce that Mexicans are Muslims?
From Upworthy: Jeremy Hoffman spends his days studying ocean sediment samples.
That may not sound very interesting, but for Hoffman, it’s fascinating: He’s reconstructing climate records from Earth’s past.
So you can imagine how the 26-year-old paleoclimate scientist feels about climate change doubters, people who say Hoffman — and 97% of his colleagues — are wrong about the effects of human activity on global climate.
He’s tried to convince them using traditional methods, but some people can’t be swayed by peer-reviewed papers.
So he’s decided to use a different tool: parody songs.
That parody song needs to go viral. Please spread it around.
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You sure have the right attitude to getting better and out of there, TomCat. Trying to get your strength back and to adapt to a new (physical) situation in a positive way is clearly part of that. By the sound of it, the nurses there are getting just as much exercise as you do, so they'll keep ahead of you, especially the purdy ones. Perhaps it's time for plan B: distract them with a present?
El Niño: Overall these maps are rather disheartening, but it seems California can look forward to filling up its reservoirs a bit this winter. On the other hand that won't be much to look forward to because of the predicted heavy rains, floods and mudslides. And Canada can say goodbye to their last polar bears: they'll starve when the ice doesn't return because the temperatures remain to high. And this is just the beginning…
The New Yorker: For Andy even Trump has to admitt he isn't God and can't do everything at once. It's also a matter of money (of course), Trump has realized that closing mosques is much cheaper than building a wall and deporting all Mexicans. But who knows, Andy/Trump may surprize us all by saying he will do both at the same time.
Upworthy: Kudos to Jeremy Hoffman for using his frustration about climate change sceptics in such a possitive and creative way. With fantastic lyrics and fun to watch, this video must go viral, so start sharing it!
Amen!
Great and appropo parody–thanks for sharing it!
Unfortunately El Nino is warm storms so not expected to help the snow pack, which does way more to fill our reservoirs. Also, the predictions are for warmer in the midwest (MN hasn't had their first snow of the season yet which usually arrives in Oct. even though it doesn't stick).
Kudos on the pivot transfer! Such progress will help reduce your dependence on staff and related issues.
Cross posted to Care2 at:
http://www.care2.com/news/member/527046926/3928287
Thanks,Judi.
Thanks Judi!
Gee, CA is gonna get hit there this winter, like we've had in TX. Flood in May, drought all summer long, a county fire, another massive rainfall causing flooding once again. Not good.
NYer: It would be funny, Andy, if it wasn't true. I sure that Thumpman will thing of something else outrageous to say.
UpWorthy: Kudos to Mr. Hoffman for this video, sharing!
Seems like you are trying real hard, and kudos on your pivot transfer! You're getting better and better with your laps too. Not nurse's laps mind you, but laps around the unit. lol. Take care, enjoy your evening, and Thanks, TC.
Thanks Pat. See today's article.
Congranulations, sugar. Not easy. Looks like you are doing everything right. Keep it up!
The Brat (Gag, ny unofficial translation make the weather sound like Trump) – California does need the water. They will probably keep telling themselves that with grited teeth all winter. And it's too bad it won't build snow pack. But good about reservoirs. Looking at the map, looks like Colorado will be who knows, anything goes – but then,, we are used to that.
New Yorker – "bait and switch" – LMAO! Pace Bernie and a few other honest ones, all politics is bait and switch.
Upworthy – Hoffman and Jerfunkel. Good ones. Nice costumes too – presentational rather than representational. Also nice split screen work and lighting and dubbing. Great lyrics. My only suggestion would be subtitles – maybe phonetic subtitles – after all, it is aimed at idiots. I don't think some of the people who need to hear it actually understand some of the words. The ones with more than two syllables.
Cartoon – Oh, good grief. Maybe you shouldn't be giving them ideas.
JD, they had THAT idea long ago.
So glad to hear you doing your transitions!!! More steps to to getting to go HOME!! EXCELLENT work, TC!!! You are making record "strides" on your recovery!!
Andy gottem, didn't he??
Great post, TC! Gotta go walk the dogs!
Thanks Viv. Walk the dawgs?!!? Cat is where it's at!!
Maybe you will catch that purdy nurse tomorrow!
Short Takes: Kentucky is supposed to have more snow than usual this winter. Yuck.
The New Yorker: Sounds believable. Nothing Trump decides to do would surprise me.
Upworthy: Shared this on Facebook. Since so many coal jobs have been lost here, it is easier to blame the Environmentalists than face up to the facts.
Edie, you're a prophet!!
Glad you finally caught one.
He caught not just one but two!!!
Upworthy: Some people can not be swayed because industrial strength money has taken what little grey matter they, presumably, once had and turned it into mush. Of course, I may be being uneccessarily generous to them by assuming that they had a capacity to think, ever.
As alyways, kudos to Andy.