Talking of sun & warmth, walking back from shopping in London I just saw a 5ft sunflower in bloom! It's nearly November

Just reading this. Hope you start to see some improvement soon!

So true. BTW, Isaac Saul's Tangle had a piece about how crazy the polls are right now. I don't think it's behind a paywall. https://www.readtangle.com/2026-midterm-polls-blue-wave/

I'm a bit nervous myself but am trying to stay hopeful. The GOP and Trump have had a bunch of judges push back on the carp. And states aren't going to roll over and give in to them.

Botulism

That one I have not heard.

Me too

WTF? BTW, it sucks when it's the middle of the night and you have G but no T. Ask me how I know.

Living on a cruise ship is great if your idea of fun is getting infected with a serious disease and effectively quarantined or alternatively if your idea of fun is falling into the ocean and being left for dead.

But ice cream has no bones.

The Bermuda Triangle phenomenon continues...last Friday the car wouldn't start. I thought I had noticed beginning a month or so ago that the battery didn't have as much "oomph" when I started the car, but shrugged it off. It was installed last December. I jumped it with the little portable jumper (those things are cool) and took it over to the mechanic. He checked it out and said it was fine, and that we need to take it out for longer drives occasionally to charge it up. He charged the battery, but didn't charge us. These independent guys are the best. And this morning, our vintage Melitta electric drip coffee maker that we got from Gevalia in 1990 (remember those deals?) gave up the ghost. You can still buy these units NIB on ebay. People must have gotten tons of them and stashed them away. Thing is, they last forever so they sat unused in someone's basement and now they are getting rid of them. The weird thing is that earlier this week I commented to Mr wtg that the Melitta electric was pretty amazing, but that I was going to keep one of the three Chemex pots that we have, just in case the Melitta crapped out. Prescient, I am.

Link to video I haven't seen better than his game. I haven't seen anything close to it.

Real investigative journalists FTW. Btw- interesting fact- you need no educational credentials to be a journalist. You don't need any to be an architect either. As it should be. But yes, come on, CBS is circling the drain. It was bought by a Zionist billionaire on behalf of the interests of the state of Israel. That's just a fact. How can it produce remotely objective journalism now? It can't. It's been one problem after another with CBS. I say CBS because it's "CBS" but it has nothing to do with the CBS we remember.

Good lord. And those are just sound bites. Their whole belief system is wacko.

Link to video

Interesting. I've never even been to Liverpool.