Ah, shit. if you can, get his interview with Terry Gross (Fresh Air). It’s wonderful. As is his music.

I’m taking on line classes and watching Star Trek Picard and Discovery because it’s free for a month.

Sharon and I both have noise canceling headphones, so us sitting across the table watching two different TV […]

He’s going out for beans, not oats

Zorbing? We know a song about that, don’t we kids!

Sorry, we had a previous one?

I might have my timeline off, but I think the main English translator died in the last couple of years as well.

Going through Wiki and seeing how the various countries have translated all the names is not time wasted.

I hate the Waterboys. (There’s probably a thread for ‘Your irrational hatred of good bands’)

I fell hard for a girl in my second year at University. She used me – emotionally, not physically! – and dumped […]

As a 40+ year T1, if you ever want advice please just let me know.

Diabetic, with asthma, so to say I’m oversteering to careful is an understatement. Sharon has been placed on an alternative work schedule.

Luckily I’ve been at home a lot anyway due to work (or lack thereof) […]

Does anyone know what the plans are for all the extra bodies?

I mean, there will a spike in the death rate. Can the infrastructure handle them all?

I have a stack of real books, and a lot on the Kindle.

Right now it’s White’s biography of Ulysses S Grant, which is just a great read.
So too Kay Carmichael’s “It takes a lifetime to become yourself”, which […]

if you don’t get it on the radio, “In Our Time” is superb listening.

I was a huge fan of The West Wing, and the aptly named West Wing Weekly (they do an episode a week) is excellent podcasting.

WTF with Marc […]

This is Lester Maddox:

Death rate for diabetics with this is 7.5%; for people with lung issues is 6.5%.

This is exponentially worse than flu for me.

There’s a lot of long ass bridges down there!

Although I think I already knew it, Dr Cornwell (ibid) confirmed that Leon Trotsky got an icepick that made his ear burn.

Which I believe we drove over when we roadtripped back from our wedding….

If you like gin, Evil Eye is quite excellent.
We had a decent pint, and an excellent pie, at the Guy Fawkes Inn.