https://www.ft.com/content/96f911e8-eb7d-4d50-aada-7e751d42d83b?syn-25a6b1a6=1 2026 Last night of proms Yuja Wang performed Barber's piano concerto, then a jazz suite. Her playing (and dress) dazzles, I watched it through despite not liking the Barber much, nor the jazz. How, who, to follow her? ... very entertaining tenor singing a fab Scottish medley.

We wanted a little bubbly fountain for our pampered cats, so Quirt ordered one. It wasn't expensive. It didn't need to do anything but pump water up to their cute little lips. When I went to set it up, I had to download an app just to turn it on. It doesn't even have an on switch. There is no reason for it to require an app, other than to send me notifications that I should buy a filter. I think I could theoretically operate it remotely, but why? If it stops, it's because it's out of water. I can't fix that remotely.

Oy vey.

Consistent

Sounds like a great time. Bob's house is not far from the U of Az and its school of music. We have heard one of the profs play. I need to tune into what recitals are available.

And here's here spinel segment. Apparently it was only added in 2016. Link to video

So no. I'm vindicated! Lol.

@wtg Nice! I've done a lot of this stuff lately. I've done the back perimeter with solar motion sensor stake lights. That needed to be done. I'm refining their positioning to know what gets tripped when, and what "line" of light they draw where. I've decided two places (one inside, one outside) need wall mounted solar motion sensor lights. That's is a different layer of complexity for me since I'm not handy. I have a few solar powered outdoor lights for decoration. More lights at some point. Congrats!

@realplayer Do you have a particular shoulder bag design in mind? Am I correct you're looking for a shoulder bag?

@CHAS said: A smoking section in a restaurant is much like a peeing section in a swimming pool. Are you trying to tell us the whole restaurant is a smoking section??

@CHAS Actually, they came down early on Friday afternoon because the winds hit 40 mph. What a bunch of wimps/

Don't know much about Rosh Hashanah, but I like challah.

Have donated. Maybe it was a month ago, I noticed Paxton had raised over 9 million, Talarico had over 31 million. Hope that 31 is enough to put Talarico over the top in Texas.

Sabalenka was a bit of a brat and sore loser. I don't respect that.

@jon-nyc said: Not surprised. A round trip flight to Europe is like getting a chest xray or two. I remember when I was getting a lot of imaging done before transplant. When I asked about the amount of radiation I was getting a doctor put it in terms of equivalent flights and that gave me perspective. It made me realize imaging was safer than I thought and/or flying was more dangerous @jon-nyc You do a lot of imaging and flying, no? You have to live your life. That's my bottom line this topic. My brother has Stage IV bone cancer. He had six days of radiation out of seven days at one of the NY hospitals. That must have been brutal. I wish I knew the organs where it's spread. He doesn't want to to talk about it. His right. I used to worry about radiation but short of avoiding power stations and transmission lines IDK anymore. My best friend in HS became a flight attendant. Well, I hope he's OK.

I’m not baking much any more, but a new local pizzeria is making a sourdough crust, so I think a visit is required.

My experience was not as dramatic as @jon-nyc 's or @bernard 's (and I believe I wrote about this at the old WTF) but I was living in Japan at the time, so it was just before 10pm. I was brushing my teeth and my husband called me into the living room where the news was on TV. (We didn't have a computer at home at that point). I couldn't process what was happening at first, it seemed like a movie, and we watched the rest of it unfold in real time just like the rest of the world. Then I couldn't get a call through to the US for what seemed like forever, I didn't know where my parents were, whether any of my family happened to be traveling (in NYC or elsewhere)... I have family in many places in Western PA, and the Japanese news didn't use any specific place names in their reporting about that part of it. That made me almost lose my mind. I think being overseas for 9/11 was maybe somewhat similar to being abroad when a family member dies. I felt isolated from the US, and I remember feeling alienated from the Japanese people that were around me (esp at work) in ways I never had before. In the months that followed I went crazy trying to get American flags to decorate our house. (Which, in a small town in Japan, and before the days of ordering everything online, was not very easy to do). It was another year or more before I made it back to the US for a visit, and when I finally returned, I found a country I did not recognize.

@dolmansaxlil I know! I don’t see how this is life-changing, but I’m in that other camp. If anyone else reads Yesteryear, I’d love to get your take on it.

Oh geez... crazy talk trying to say where the money that will never appear will come from!