Sick kiddos, car trouble and sciatica

Dec 10, 2022

Despite my complaining, I actually meant to protest this past week, but sick kiddos and continued car trouble got in the way. Clearly, it’s not just our family dealing with a lot of sickness. I went to the store to pick up more children’s Motrin and it was all sold out. I got the last bottle of the generic equivalent.

I don’t know what the issue with our second car is. Part of the problem is each time we call out AAA, we’re dealing with a different person with different recommendations. I think I should probably take it to a garage. It’s just that’s a whole thing and there is never time.

I’m still dealing with a bunch of pain. It now includes my lower back. If it’s not stress, I believe it might be the result of sitting in a low-to-the-ground chair without enough support. I’m remembering I dealt with something like this before, and we thought it could be sciatica.

I sent out my Ro Khanna endorsement to California newspapers, but I haven’t seen it appear anywhere yet. I’m going to send out a letter this week highlighting Believer Meats, formerly Future Meat Technologies, breaking ground on a cultivated-meat facility in North Carolina, which the company says is the largest of its kind in the world. If you want to send your own letters, take a look at this:

Slaughter-Free America

How to write letters to newspapers in support of cultivated-meat research

Over the past year or so, I’ve sent weekly letters to the editor advocating for federal funding for cultivated meat research to newspapers across the country. I’ve had some success getting them in big papers, like The New York Times or The Chicago Tribune, but mostly they end up in small publications…

3 years ago · Jon Hochschartner

Anyway, let’s do (Cell) Culture Talk. Here are some of the things I’ve been watching lately.

Sports — Knicks beat Hawks, 113-89. This was a fun win against New York nemesis Trae Young. Poor guy chose the wrong night to troll with his ‘King of Broadway’ sneakers. Julius Randle had a great game. Quentin Grimes showed why the front office put so much stock in him.

Sports — Knicks beat Hornets, 121-102. New York got a couple of wins and suddenly they’re in the playoff picture. Sure, they’ve been playing a bunch of injured teams, but injuries are part of the game, and they’ve taken advantage.

Music — Brett Dennen’s Xmas, Vol. 1 by Brett Dennen. There are only four songs here, so there’s not a lot to dig into. What I believe is an original contribution, “Christmas Train,” didn’t do much for me. “Frosty the Snowman” was probably my favorite of the covers. Overall, I was disappointed.