Water from the rock

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Happy International Cat Day.
This is a favorite memory of a cat drinking from a rock.
It was a rainy day in March at the tomb of the Rambam (Maimonides) in Tiberias.
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The Cyclists

Cyclists fashion has always seemed a little odd to me, I mean how about actually going out in public in lycra for starters!

Legal Tender

Never seen this before. It's in the front window of a restaurant and shop on Cherokee Street. A local colleague tells me it is literally true and the food is very good.

It seems like this would make the bookkeeping awfully difficult. There was a criminal case reported in this country recently about the ephemeral currency, money laundering charges or something like that. The defendant got off because the court ruled that bitcoin is not real money. We are more interested in how the euro is doing, since we'll be out spending some next month. Die Rechnung wird billiger für uns sein.           

Ted meets an alien

I Didn't Know About Numbers 1 to 5

A surprise find on St. Louis Avenue in the near north side. The place is in remarkably good condition.

And there is a lot of information about it online (like here and here). The City of St. Louis built public bath houses in the early decades of the 20th Century when much tenement housing had no more than cold water and a toilet for plumbing. This is the last, built in 1937 and the only one surviving. It has a handsome Art Deco style. Unfortunately, it's locked up tight. One of the linked articles says the owner uses it for storage.