@Daniel Well, now that I think of it, sure, I do like a lot of artists. Bosch, Durer, Van Gogh, Rothko, Nevelson, Klee, Krasner, and probably a dozen others whose names don’t occur to me right now. I guess I can appreciate them without knowing how their technique works.

@ShiroKuro That's no thread drift. I should change the title to something more generic, like US Olympics. I don't have TV either, so I can only catch the meager offerings NBC posts on YouTube (and it's stingy to say the best). Here is something I'm not getting: They are using drones now for some events. Alpine skiing, for instance. Now, when I watch videos from vloggers I don't hear nary a peep from the drones they use. Why is it, a "professional" outfit like NBC has these drones that whine and wheez and buzz and distract like crazy? Surely, they can either mute the drone footage, or edit out the sound. It seems very sloppy to me. I'd also love it if more than one media outlet were allowed to cover the games.

My current bedtime/sofa/airplane read (a third reading for me): [image: 1770596182578-img_0295.jpeg] My current audiobook: [image: 1770596212804-img_0296.jpeg] I’m a glutton for punishment. After the endurance test of Twain I pick up two 1000+ page reads.

@Mik said in Alcaraz breaks 88 Year Old Record: That's awesome. I wish we had kept our fantastic seats at the Cincinnati open. We've seen the changing of the guard so many times and so many thrilling matches. But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.". Great line.

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Link to video Omg. She's wonderful.

I won't ever know if Melania wears Prada. I liked her first inaugural outfit. Her choice of the "I don't care. Do you?" designer makes everything she's worn from the swearing in ceremony to today a run away train to nowhere in particular.

https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0720/Sections/0720.303.html This might be useful.

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Hey, series are great too!

Norway is in a furore! https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/europe/norway-royal-family-scandals-intl I read this so you don't have to. There are suggestions she resign herself to solitude and leave the Crown Prince to reign without her with it further suggested she cite health issues as the reason. I'd divorce her but that's just me.

Is that the Late Show that Letterman hosted or Leno? You can tell I don't watch television often. I'll watch this when I'm in more of a romantic mood. I think it would go over my head at the moment.

They do some good sometimes but what I like seeing most is when they make some draconian decision, face backlash, and then set the laws/ rules back the way they found them. This happens with some frequency.

I was going to say I love the light fixtures. I didn't see it was reproduction Tiffany. I love the dragonfly motif. It is among my favorite animal motifs along with geckos, frogs, and beetles. Well done!

Joe, Aren't you glad you aren't living on the street? I don't know how the homeless manage the winter here, let alone there.

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