COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, ApRIL 8, 2021
Pregnancy changes dynamic of women’s friendship
DEAR ABBY: I’m in my late
20s, married and happily child-
free. My best friend recently
became pregnant, and I am
having a hard time with it. I don’t
enjoy children,
and it feels like I
am losing my best
friend. All she wants
to talk about is the
baby. I’ve tried
hinting that I’ll be
here when she and her husband
need a break from being “Mom
and Dad,” but she continues to
talk on and on about the all-con-
suming baby.
I know this is a big change and
a huge part of her life, but I also
know she has plenty of other sup-
port for this child. I would hope
she realizes that I do not care for
children or wish to be around
them. How can I let her know —
without offending her — that the
last thing I want to hear about are
diapers and prams?
— CHILD-FREE
IN WISCONSIN
DEAR
CHILD-
DEAR
FREE: I am sorry
ABBY
you feel so nega-
tive about the topics
of babies and chil-
dren, because your intolerance
will eventually isolate you from
friends and peers. If you voice
what you are thinking, you will
alienate your best friend, who is
thrilled to be embarking on the
adventure of parenthood.
Because her talk about babies,
diapers and the process she’s
going through affects you like
nails on a chalkboard, limit the
conversations and visits you have
with her.
Do NOT write her off, how-
ever, because it is possible that
in time she will be reaching out
to you, craving conversation that
goes beyond the playpen.
DEAR ABBY: As the pan-
demic has forced many to work
remotely, I feel certain I’m
not the only person with this
dilemma. I have been working
from home since last March. My
fiance, on the other hand, has
a manual labor job in a skilled
trade. Abby, it seems like every
other day he picks a fight with
me because he thinks I should
have the house clean, chores
done and dinner cooked when he
returns from work, despite the
to be getting any better, it’s get-
ting worse. Your thoughts?
— TELECOMMUTING IN
FLORIDA
DEAR TELECOMMUTING:
Your physical health must come
first. If returning to the office will
endanger your health, you must
stay home and protect it.
Your mental health comes next.
Your fiance appears to be having a
chauvinistic fever dream in which
he has been transported back to
the 1950s. For the last quarter of a
century — and more — men have
been helping their partners with the
“chores” he’s harassing you about.
If he can’t dig deep and find it in
his heart to chip in, then for the
sake of your health and your sanity,
PLEASE rethink this engagement,
because it is unhealthy.
fact that I have been working at
my job all day.
He equates my being home to
me being able to take care of all
the chores. He criticizes me and
calls me lazy and other names
all the time. Regardless of what
he thinks, I have a demanding
job in an IT field, which is no
less demanding because I’m
home. It involves numerous con-
ference calls all day.
I have an opportunity now
where some of us can come
back to the office, but because
I have an autoimmune disease,
I’m hesitant. Should I go back
to the office to keep the peace
or remain working from home,
which I actually enjoy? I have
talked to him about this repeat-
edly, and it not only doesn’t seem
News of the Weird
Tom Brady rookie football card
fetches $2.25 million at auction
NEW YORK — Quarterback
Tom Brady is proving he’s the
GOAT not just on the football
field but also in the collectibles
market: A rookie football card
just sold for $2.25 million.
The card was signed by the
GOAT, a common reference to
Brady that stands for “greatest of
all time.”
The price fetched Friday
night, April 2, through online
sports auction house Lelands
broke a football card record that
was previously held by Brady.
Another of his rookie cards sold
for $1.32 million on PWCC Mar-
ketplace last month.
“Tom Brady continues to
shatter records both on and off
the football field,” Lelands Pres-
ident Mike Heffner said in a
statement.
Brady began his professional
football career with the New
England Patriots, where he won
six Super Bowls.
He continued his winning
ways after parting from the
Patriots in 2020 and joining
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He
earned his seventh Super Bowl
win when the Buccaneers beat
the Kansas City Chiefs earlier
this year.
Lelands via Ap
This photo provided by Lelands shows
quarterback Tom Brady’s rookie football
card, which recently sold through the on-
line sports auction house for $2.25 million.
quirky date for nuptials. The
clerk’s office marked the occa-
sion with keepsake marriage
certificates.
“Specialty dates like 4/3/21
are always immensely popular,”
said county Clerk Lynn Goya,
who noted that more than 1,800
couples were married on Dec.
13, 2014.
April is usually busy for
weddings, and past dates with
notable numeric sequences have
tallied more than 1,000 weddings
in a day, Goya said.
The office is bracing for a
busy first 10 days this December,
offering what the clerk dubs
“palindrome days” for numbers
reading the same forward and
backward.
Nearly 2,700 couples married
on 10/10/10; more than 1,800 tied
the knot on 12/12/12; and 3,125
were wed on 11/11/11.
The most popular date to
date?
Goya said 7/7/7 took the cake,
with 4,492 marriages.
Unique 4/3/21 date draws lines
for Vegas wedding licenses
LAS VEGAS — Soon-to-be
newlyweds lined up out the door
of the marriage license office
in Las Vegas on Friday, ahead
of a unique date to tie the knot:
4/3/21.
Nearly 700 couples obtained
licenses for the Saturday date,
said Jeff Klein, a spokesperson
for the Clark County Mar-
riage Bureau, as the city where
Elvis can be part of the wedding
party got set to mark yet another
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people wait in line for marriage licenses at the Marriage License Bureau, Friday, April 2, 2021, in Las Vegas. The bureau was seeing busier
than normal traffic ahead of 4/3/21, a popular day to get married in Las Vegas.
fighting. When the second
round was finished, I see my
(bone) was out in the open.
I wanted to keep fighting,
because I felt like I had this
guy. But the doctor saw that
and stopped the fight. “
Event promoter Rob Haydak
told ESPN that officials began
searching inside the cage where
the match was held, and an
announcement was made to the
crowd, asking them to look for
it also.
After several minutes, the
finger was ultimately discovered
inside Pliev’s glove, Haydak
said.
“It was crazy,” Haydak told
ESPN. “He didn’t even flinch.
He was getting ready to do the
(official) decision and I was like,
MMA fighter has finger severed
in match; doctors reattach it
PHILADELPHIA — A
mixed martial arts fighter had
his finger severed during a
match in Philadelphia, but doc-
tors were eventually able to
reattach it.
Khetag Pliev was injured
Thursday night, April 1, during
the second round of his fight,
which was stopped when the ref-
eree noticed Pliev was missing
his left ring finger.
“In the second round, he
(opponent Devin Goodale)
caught my glove with one hand
and held it,” Pliev told ESPN.
“I felt my finger snapped. He
kept pulling my glove and
my finger snapped. We kept
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
35/50
Kennewick
29/57
St. Helens
35/60
31/58
Condon
33/61
37/60
Baker City
Comfort Index™
La Grande
SUN
MON
Sunny and
warmer
Clouds and sun
50 20
55 24
60 26
Eugene
1
1
5
8
31/59
43 23
53 22
58 27
0
9
8
10
24 65 32
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
SAT
1
10
21 61 28
Comfort Index™
0
50 24
52 25
0
6
5
10
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 97°
Low: 11°
Wettest: 0.81”
61°
15°
62°
20°
66°
21°
0.00
0.00
0.15
1.09
2.35
0.00
Trace
0.31
5.69
4.54
0.00
0.00
0.40
13.17
8.10
PRECIPITATION (inches)
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
25%
S at 7 to 14 mph
5.4
0.13
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
19% of capacity
86% of capacity
60% of capacity
88% of capacity
60% of capacity
101% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
7340 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
69 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
59 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
644 cfs
Minam River at Minam
444 cfs
Powder River near Richland
340 cfs
Zapata, Texas
Ely, Nev.
Pierre, S.D.
OREGON
High: 75°
Low: 12°
Wettest: none
Medford
Lakeview
Powers
33/57
In the middle of the nation on April 8,
1963, Williston, N.D., had 5 inches of
snow, while Laredo, Texas, had a record
high of 104 degrees.
SUN & MOON
THU.
6:20 a.m.
7:29 p.m.
5:28 a.m.
4:06 p.m.
FRI.
6:18 a.m.
7:31 p.m.
5:50 a.m.
5:12 p.m.
MOON PHASES
New
Apr 11
First
Apr 19
Full
Apr 26
33/62
Last
May 3
Jordan Valley
24/61
Paisley
27/66
22/62
Frenchglen
25/65
34/72
Brookings
35/68
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
50/38/c
64/32/pc
62/38/s
53/41/s
66/30/s
50/39/pc
58/38/pc
54/34/pc
64/33/pc
59/38/pc
65/41/c
58/40/c
60/33/pc
64/31/pc
59/26/pc
67/41/c
65/27/pc
65/28/s
Hi/Lo/W
50/34/c
49/22/pc
57/28/s
55/40/pc
53/18/pc
48/35/pc
52/30/c
50/26/pc
43/22/sf
52/30/c
57/28/pc
49/31/c
47/23/c
46/20/pc
40/19/sn
58/28/pc
57/23/s
61/20/s
Grand View
Arock
25/65
24/66
25/68
Klamath Falls
23/65
Lakeview
22/65
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Diamond
24/64
Fields
Medford
38/53
Boise
29/62
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
23/65
19/65
24/63
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
18/66
23/61
21/60
Roseburg
Ontario
28/65
Burns
Brothers
31/60
Coos Bay
Huntington
22/60
27/64
Oakridge
27/54
30/63
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Florence
34/50
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
28/64
23/63
Council
22/64
John Day
20/63
Sisters
35/60
40 20
23/61
Baker City
Redmond
33/49
35/50
Halfway
Granite
18/60
25/53
32/58
Corvallis
26/66
32/58
Newport
Enterprise
21/61
24/65
Monument
29/61
Idanha
Salem
Snow showers
in the a.m.
22 64 31
Elgin
22/64
La Grande
29/58
Maupin
FRI
33/61
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
33/58
Lewiston
32/63
Hood River
29/64
30/51
TONIGHT
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
33/67
Vancouver
33/60
TIllamook
Clear and colder Partly sunny and
warmer
‘Uh, guys, get him out of the
cage and go put his finger back
on.’”
Pliev was taken to a hospital
where the finger was reattached.
He said the doctor told him he
tore 50% of the tendon on the
finger, and he may need another
procedure.
His opponent, Goodale, was
ruled the winner by TKO.
Pliev, though, said he will
appeal the decision to the Penn-
sylvania State Athletic Commis-
sion, claiming Goodale illegally
grabbed his gloves during the
bout.
Pliev, 37, is a native of
Russia who competed in
the 2012 Olympics as a
wrestler for Canada.
— Associated Press
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
FRI.
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
63/41/pc
57/37/c
61/33/pc
68/35/s
49/39/c
50/33/c
65/37/s
66/40/c
64/37/c
60/40/c
57/38/pc
63/27/pc
62/37/s
58/39/c
53/34/c
61/42/pc
62/29/pc
61/39/c
Hi/Lo/W
51/29/sh
51/30/c
42/21/sf
62/32/pc
47/33/r
51/27/r
60/29/pc
58/27/pc
51/28/sh
52/35/c
50/32/pc
50/20/pc
56/31/c
51/29/pc
47/25/pc
53/32/pc
41/21/pc
50/31/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Not as cold
Warmer
40
18
60
32
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Partly sunny
Warmer
48
27
59
37
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Not as cold
Warmer
42
21
58
25
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Warmer
Milder
59
26
66
35
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Warmer
Warmer
64
31
65
32