New dining location

The rabbit is visiting someone else in the neighborhood now.

In the extras I have Akane. Akane means, "glowing evening sky." Today I put her in a new pot with new soil. This is the small tree I planted when I dug the hole and broke the internet. Now I've moved her and eventually my new tree will go in that spot and look beautiful and block the view while Akane looks beautiful on the deck. I put some other containers together too and then we had the most marvelous shower.  

Yesterday I was going to ramble on about how we used to sit on porches in our front yards and talk to neighbors walking by, but I kept falling asleep. Fitting. 

Given Russia's status as a hacker haven, experts were expecting a wave of cyber attacks. Every time something in IT goes wrong I (jokingly) blame Russia now. Instead, Russia is struggling with an unprecedented hacking wave. "Digital assailants have plundered the country’s personal financial data, defaced websites and handed decades of government emails to anti-secrecy activists abroad. One recent survey showed more passwords and other sensitive data from Russia were dumped onto the open Web in March than information from any other country." Ukraine has an "IT Army" channel on Telegram where it suggests targets. 

Speaking of IT, all the smart people who can are getting out of Russia. "The Russian Association for Electronic Communications told the lower house of Russia’s parliament last month that 50,000 to 70,000 tech workers have fled the country, with 100,000 more expected to leave over the next month — for a total of about 10 percent of the sector’s workforce." This hurts IT, aviation, and aerospace. "Desperate to stem the tide, the Russian government passed an unprecedented incentive package offering IT firms tax breaks and reduced regulation. IT workers, meanwhile, are being promised subsidized housing, salary bumps, and no income tax for the next three years. Notably, the decree signed by Putin also grants IT workers an exemption from conscription into military service, something many young Russians have sought to avoid by fleeing the country."

Right now Ukraine uses a lot of Soviet weapons, and uses them very well. There is something called the Tochka that is a missile that Ukraine inherited a bunch of when the Soviet Union fell. They are so old that they don't get external data linkups and therefore can't be jammed. (No wifi? how can they operate?! or take selfies?!) Ukraine has at least 90 launchers and seem to have launched them into Russia at least four times. They only have a range of about 75 miles but a lot of Russia's military logistics - air bases, ammunition warehouses, and oil depots - are within range.

That said, NATO is increasingly offering modern weapons. 

Surprise, surprise, the corruption that is rampant in Russia is rampant in the military which is part of why the equipment is lousy and poorly maintained and the troops have low morale. 

There are daily acts of sabotage inside Russia.  

Russians were caught faking a drone shoot-down. Ukraine has been using Turkish made TB-2 drones. It is 1,400 pounds. It has 14 pound laser guided missiles. They maybe have been flying into Russia.... Russia posted a picture of a TB-2 and claimed to have shot it down but someone realized it was a different missile with identical scratches and dents. It was debunked in hours.