I think it says more about the band than about me, personally, but yes, it reminds me to feel old. I've had many such reminders lately. I had a trip and fall in the dark on concrete. Again, but my ability to do this must be finite, I landed on my lower left rib cage with my hand protecting my head. I tore and pulverized muscle tissue from my left shoulder to where my ribcage ends. The palms of my hands are bruise. My left hand bend backward to a severe angle. I've been in pain for a week and counting. My trustee and I had what I'll call a difficult conversation on Saturday all the result of the fact she created a needless drama that was mind boggling in the pointlessness of it. I did what I was asked to do when I was asked to do it. She refused to follow one note of explicit instructions (again, she asked for a list of instructions containing agreed on information sought) the reason being she wanted to do it a different way because she didn't think to get a bank check and take care of it when she was at the bank on Saturday, was remiss in buying physical checks for the trust account, insisted on me giving her information I didn't have so she could use the backs auto generating check feature, and then told me she was not going out of her way for me (it never happened), berated me about my situation (completely inappropriate), and accused me of metaphorically beating her ("I'm not your punching bag") in a way that was bizarre, not at all apt, and offensive. I had to run down some facts with her and tell her to keep her judgmentalism and unjust accusations to herself in the future. I used nicer language but with the same meaning. She's 15 years younger than me; she has the time (apparently) and the energy to act this way. We agreed on "next step" but she can't be talking to me this way. It can't be "a thing." She'll be 60 one day and know how it feels physically and emotionally. In the meantime, I will have to teach her that I won't be involved in this kind of interpersonal BS.

Hahaha!

Interesting, Artur says it took him 3 days to learn (play & memorise) the Grieg A minor. So 20-30 hours practice.

Futbol is the only game I’ll watch and the World Cup is the only time I’ll watch it. US-Paraguay was a great match but Scotland-Haiti was even better. Haiti dominated the entire match but couldn’t figure out how to make a goal. Fascinating.

My first thought was-- more creative than what? I still don't think the term-- "artificial intelligence" is well enough defined and still think this new term is problematic.

I don't know about this one, of course, but there were a lot of places like that Hawaii. Always, you could smell the mold by about the time you got 10' from the front door.

"But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated."-- Mik

Good grief.

Such a tough problem to have.

@Mik Already looking for a new clinic. The doc has prescribed a form of eyedrops that the pharmacy cannot order. It is no longer made or something like that I assume. The pharmacy had notified the doctor's office. Have called the clinic's hotline twice. They " will call you back within 24 hours", nope.

I love this time of year, too! I love berry season, which has started here. Been grazing on serviceberries for the last week. Bumper crop. Also looks like I'll have good raspberry and black currant crops. There was severe dieback on one of my two red gooseberry bushes, so that crop will be much smaller than usual. Here are some tomato recipes. We need to get ready for those pups! I have tons on the vine. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/tomato-salad-recipes Corn and tomato salad: [image: 1382541354925.webp]

@CHAS said: The Hydrogen powered Mirai.https://www.toyota.com/mirai/ Get your own little Hindenburg. I'd love to! But anything with this level of technology will be expensive. My car didn't arrive today and might not until Monday or Tuesday (it is insured as of last night, though). It's old school-- normally aspirated internal combustion with a mechanically geared automatic. It has an electrical system of course but not "electronics" in the modern sense. It has hand crank windows if I recall. I'm excited but have always thought hydrogen had great potential.

So I heard him talk about Gaza. He said his position is Israel shouldn't be given weapons but should be sold them if they follow the applicable laws. He said nothing about the fact Israel doesn't follow the applicable laws. He said nothing about the fact Israel alone does not allow its nuclear program to be monitored by the relevant international agency. He said nothing about the fact that AIPAC is a lobby for a foreign agent and, again, refuses to follow our law by registering it as such. IMHO, his moment on the political stage arrived and has since departed. Again, JMHO.

Yeah, it's a scary topic. I won't regale everyone on a Saturday night with the horrible facts about it I have filed in my memory.

They know how to cook in that part of the world. Ask me how I know. The New Deal FTW.

What bloviating circus clown minions!

I don't know the scale. The one that hit us was EF-1. Link to video "Jun 26, 2025 — The twister touched down in Largo near Ulmerton and Belcher Roads on Wednesday evening. The NWS said peak wind was 90 mph."-- local affiliate I hope everyone stays safe!