Got two easy runs in today.
Morning was from hotel , south on Jamaica, west on 100th St to Ideal Ave.S. Asphalt bike path the entire way. Got pretty rural. Did an out and back. Listened to a podcast about the "Rubber Room". The NYC education dept sends teaches to a "reassignment center" if some allegation of abuse or other infraction reported. The teaches wait and sit for days, weeks, months, even years at times until they get a hearing and they are either reinstated or fired. Like jury duty almost but a lot longer. All the time with full pay and benefits. My synopsis doesn't do it justice. www.thisamericanlife.org
Evening was from hotel, south on Jamaica, west on 95th St., south on Hadley, East on 100th and back. Listened to a podcast about retirement homes for Chimpanzees. I hadn't thought about this but a chimp is one of the only domesticated animals that humans don't euthanize. A TV or circus chimp can only be an entertainer for 4-5 years before they get too big , strong, and agressive. They can live to almost 50 yrs. The same is true for research chimps. The Clinton Admin funded this multi-million dollar retirement home - the chimps have rooms with hammocks, TV's, meals cooked for them, along with an outdoor play area that allows for some natural foraging for food. They say that since many of the chimps grew up around lab coated humans that their favorite TV show is General Hospital. | 