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Alert readers may note that I made a grammatical error in the title of this post. I have not suddenly gone senile, although things are moving in that direction. No, I did it on purpose to get you’re attention. And they’re is another one (and another!), two deliberate mistakes to introduce my latest topic: highContinue reading “Their Up to No Good”

But sometimes I wish it wasn’t. Some of my readers know that Stoker has health issues that have made travel difficult for us. I am happy to report that over the last several weeks she has been feeling much better. So much better, that last week she suggested we take a two night trip toContinue reading “The World is My Oyster…”

Diane’s mom Doris passed away this week. Just short of 99 years old and in poor health, it was no surprise. Soon after her four daughters and their husbands got together for a kind of cross country Zoom wake. It was cocktail time in the Central Time Zone, and I bent a rule and pouredContinue reading “Remembering Doris”

Sometimes I wonder just how stupid our political leaders think we are. Case in point… “Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden’s leadership,” the White House tweeted Monday. Seniors are not getting an ‘increase’ in anything. The purchasing power of their Social Security checks FELLContinue reading “Up, Up and Away”

The full quote is “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain”. It’s from the play by Friedrich Schiller titled Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans, as translated by Anna Swanwick). I remember the quote from reading Isaac Asimov’s novel 1972 novel The Gods Themselves. And no, I don’t carry all this aroundContinue reading “Contend In Vain”

Yesterday I had an appointment with my Family Care Physician. I like him well enough, but he spends more time looking at the computer screen with my medical data than he does looking at me. Everything was fine, except that the take home report said I was ‘overweight’. That kind of irritates me, since atContinue reading “Testing, Testing…One Line or Two?”

I said I would write about my recent trip to France/Andorra/ Spain, and here we go. If it gets a little too much ‘woe is me’ then just skip it. I promise to return to skewering pronoun nonsense or expressing outrage at student loan forgiveness or at being called a ‘semi fascist’ (moi? Non!) soon.Continue reading “My 15th Euro Trip: A Climb Too Far?”

I’ve just returned from my 15th (!) cycling trip to Europe. I can hardly believe it myself. I started in 2007, went back in 2012, and after my first trip with 44 | 5 Cycling Tours (https://www.445cyclingtours.com/) in 2014 I been back to ride with them every non-Covid year since. Some years I made twoContinue reading “Manejandores Muy Amables”

News today on all three fronts: Inflation: The CPI for July came in at 8.5% above July 2021. The stock market is excited because this was lower than expected, but I’m still getting sticker shock at the meat counter. If you had $1000 in your wallet in January 2020, it’s worth $883 today. Put anotherContinue reading “Intervals, Inflation, and Implants (Update)”

I try to take good care of myself, and so far through a combination of good luck and healthy living, I haven’t had any serious issues. My weight is fine, my blood work is really good (no statins for me) and with medication my blood pressure is under control. As my regular readers know, sometimesContinue reading “Intervals, Inflation, Implants: The I’s Have It”