@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.

I just started reading this book that I bought while we were in Japan last summer: Yakuza Sometimes Piano [image: 81t5SrjD-OL._SL1500_.jpg] It’s about a writer whose main reporting area is yakuza (i.e., he primarily writes about the yakuza underworld), and he (the writer, a man in his 50s) starts learning piano. I literally bought it because the cover caught my eye. It would probably be more interesting if the person learning the piano were actually a yakuza, instead of someone who writes about yakuza... But it’s interesting enough so far. I’m not very far along, so we’ll see.

I always love watching figure skating during the Olympics! But unfortunately this year (because of how busy work is) I doubt I’ll be able to watch much of any of the events. unless I want to give up my piano time, which I don’t. We never watch TV. When we lived in Japan, we always watched a morning show together at breakfast, probably not unlike those shows that play in the US (although I don’t know bc we don’t watch the U.S. ones, mostly bc Mr SK can’t keep up with the English) but the Japanese ones are a mix of news and entertainment. And that was always an easy way to keep up with events like the Olympics. I really miss that. Sorry for the thread drift!

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I don’t have a strong visual sense, the way I have a well-developed appreciation for music, or even literature. I don’t know “how” to look at art, yet sometimes I’ll see a work and find it quite affecting. Maybe that’s enough.

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.

Split pea soup for a cold winter day. Cozy cook recipes never disappoint! [image: IMG-5187.jpg]