I'm staying in bed today. I've been in bed all day. I did get up to take a shower. I haven't stepped outside the house. I'm planning a grand adventure later when I will get my Walmart order from the porch. It's been sitting there since noon. It's a spool of thread, of all things. I already have a set of needles. I don't sew. Another thing I don't do. But I want to mend a hole I cut in a new pair of sweatpants when I was cutting a long tag. It was about 3ninches. Who had that bright idea? Anyway, I know from the delivery photo my '50's porch table (space age design, round with a round plate of opaque glass in the center, wanted to keep it but no place for it to live), laden with things I wanted to get rid of but were too nice to throw in the dumpsters, with a "free" sign has gone, the lot of it. Good. Just in time. It rains tomorrow. I feel like I got hit by a train. Good Dr visit yesterday but sick all night and morning.

Link to video Some great quips in the one. I won't spoil it.

I’ve seen reports on MSNOW by lawyers like Marc Elias—and also by state election officials on FB—who say that an immense amount of work has been done to thwart election interference, much of it not announced to the public. I hope so.

It’s not a podium, it’s a lectern. Podium is the raised platform (pod=feet). The lectern is the thing you put your notes on where the microphone (often) is.

Link to video

I couldn't image living in the upper MW climate. The weather seems like it would be brutal. Weather here is mild, maybe a little warmer than I expected. That could change in only another week. We're getting 10- 12 constant winds. The humidity is low. Late fall is great weather here. Hurricane season done. I'd like to say 2nd consecutive year in FL with no hurricanes but one did hit the panhandle. We got lucky again.

Well, you have now. Lol.

Thanks, Mark!

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/

Botulism

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.

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.

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.