theme song: the times they are a-changin'

[mellowtigger]

Remember back before the multiple ongoing and escalating crises when I would post about science stuff?  Like plants communicating with each other, new and greener battery technology, a proposal for a crewed interstellar spacecraft, and even a whole new continental rift opening before our very eyes.  Fun times.  I miss those days.

Meanwhile, I stopped shaving altogether that first week I had to work from home.  I won't shave until I've received a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.  My beard is growing in nicely now, and it's almost entirely white.  That, plus the extra weight, and now I'm starting to get a serious "santa vibe" from my image.  I mentioned it during a Teams videochat with my coworkers on Monday, and we all got a good laugh.  Someone took a screenshot and sent it to me to use as a new profile photo.  So I am.  I'm even thinking of finding some rose-tinted glasses and maybe a rainbow colored rasta hat, and just go full-blown hippie santa until this is all over with.

So, I'll leave you with today's theme song from Bob Dylan.

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Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

Stay safe out there.