WTF-Beta

Happy Birthday!

I’ll be 58 on Thursday.

Rival

Showed her age walking but not playing!

@Daniel said:

Oh my.

I’m just kidding. I don’t wish them harm.

Binge

Upfront

Toke

Just arrived.

Mayla and her parents are here until Monday, then they’re off to Florence.

In a few minutes we’re off to tour the Sagrada Família.

Interesting. For me the association was very NYC specific.

There’s a memorial to John Lennon in Central Park that has a big mosaic of the word ‘Imagine’. That is right in front of the Dakota building which is where he lived and where he was shot.

Dakota

Bloom

It might be good for me but it’s just not worth all the comments and weird looks I get for pushing an empty stroller.

@wtg said:

@jon-nyc said:

Does anyone remember where they were when they heard about it?

The royals might want to take note of Pat's travel schedule that includes a stop at the wtg house.

I was going to say you should invite her over more often. lol

There’s still dregs of Arabic in modern Spanish. The exclamation ‘ojalá’ comes to mind.

My mother died 11 years later, same date.

Does anyone remember where they were when they heard about it?

I do because the message delivery was novel. I was living in Mexico City and I had an old cell phone. This had early text capabilities but still just a numeric keypad with three letter above each number like an old school phone.

The carrier in Mexico actually sent an emergency text message to everyone saying she’d been killed in an accident. The same way we get amber alerts today.

I thought it was odd. First of all, I didn’t realize that kind of global message was a thing. I had never received one before or never did afterwards while living there. Also in hindsight it seemed a weird use of it. Nobody ‘needed’ to know right then.

The likeness of him seems to be patterned off his mugshot.

I sort of hope some clerk at the Fulton County lockup gets a small royalty every time he uses that photo.

@AndyD said:

@jon-nyc
They seek him here they seek him there...
where this time?

Barcelona. I’m there for a conference but my wife and her parents, already in Spain since last Saturday, will be there for a couple of days of it before they go on to Italy.

We have the Pedo

I’m flying to Spain tomorrow.