It was a real nice day. Got up to 67. Low wind speeds. I took the opportunity to do a load of laundry by hand, and to sweep and mop the house. We wear our shoes in the house. I have to wear sandals because the floor is always dirty. It's usually all I can do to sweep it out once a day so mopping is a rare achievement. Tonight will be mild around 60, but this will have been the warmest day in a 10 day forecast. The temperature will decrease throughout the day tomorrow ending in the 40's again, rain is forecast, and the wind speeds will be as high as 25 mph.

Link to video This cat's personality or no cat. I wish I were a dog person but I'm not one. It's not that I don't want one, but the walking the dog, the dog walking inside without being able to wash its feet (yes, I know that's an absurd thought), etc. I can't.

I agree. Thanks. More good information!

@Steve-Miller It seems to be a case of follow the money, doesn't it? I heard one this morning....I hadn't realized that Don Jr is an informal advisor to Polymarket. Remember that big bet someone put on hours before Maduro was captured that made someone $400K? Gotta wonder if Little Donny walked away with some bucks from that one....

I think current ICE are willing pawns. A symptom of the rot above. I would bet that somewhere in the entry papers signed is the fine print agreeing to follow all existing laws. That way, they can be 'thrown under the bus' by the higher-ups as the claim of immunity ends.

@ShiroKuro said in New Year, new music? Ambitions?: 50 minutes one way is a lot! Especially if something starts in the evening. If would be many times more tolerable if I didn't have to drive! Driving puts the kibosh on reading, or knitting or whatever else.

AI will save us all!

The Detectorists is a series I've watched a couple of times. Very English comfort viewing

@Piano-Dad said in The Dems are sweeping up tonight!: Look who I ran into a few days ago ... [image: bafkreier6nfablponduastmfzgfqhawwwbj5wlw76gtemhumic467kovyi@jpeg] Inauguration. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/16/nx-s1-5675312/spanberger-virginia-governor-inauguration

The protests were a big topic of conversation when we were there in July. When we were in Belgrade, I saw more stray dogs than I have in any other place I’ve visited. The tour guide talked about them as well. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they just started scooping them up to use in their “testing”. [image: 1768615324696-img_1811.jpeg] A couple of cutie strays from a walk in the part beside a popular shopping area in Belgrade

Happy anniversary, Mr. & Mrs. WTG. obviously, the weather didn't dampen your ardor. Big Al

Bunch of interesting elements in this recipe. Roasted red cabbage slices. Beersamic. https://www.craftbeering.com/roasted-cabbage-steaks/

For one thing, people can tell for themselves costs continue to outpace income, and are not blind to the fact many individuals and families are being forced into the streets because of it, not least because they can read it in the news every day. For another, anyone who tells you, the AP or anyone else, a vast majority of people do not understand the First and Fourth Amendments exist , or they do not understand and value them, is lying to you.

@CHAS That's the one.

Think I coughed something up over that. LOL

@CHAS said in What could possibly go wrong?: Too many people are assuming that all this will be fixed and back to normal. Don't count on it. It's the younger generations for which I despair.

According to Scott Ritter, it won't happen because Iran has the weaponry to take out both Israel and any American bases if it should decide, and apparently it's had it with decades of unprovoked Israeli and American hostility. Yes, it's true. Trump has already been urged to and has pulled back on his unrealistic plans. We set up a regime in Iran. We changed the same said one. We want to do it a third time. It wouldn't be so easy this time. It probably wouldn't even be possible. The propaganda being spread in the Western media now is only war mongering BS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter