Passed my annual dermatology checkup this morning. Now on to the general physical next week. I’m older enough now that part of the physical is a check on mental acuity involving memorization and drawing of a clock face with a specific time added.
We are working our way through VEEP for late night entertainment.
Back in Atlanta and reassured to have a popup thunderstorm come through the neighborhood.
If you are on Facebook be careful what you say about abortion pills. Look here and here for how Mark Zuckerberg’s company with dealing with people who use the wrong words in a FB entry.
Listening to a segment on the “Skeptics Guide to the Universe” podcast on health problems associated with sitting for two many hours a day while sitting in a car for a long 5 hour drive. Not a good piece to listen to.
We are big fans of “The Skeptics Guide to the Universe”. Their podcast is essential listening for long car trips.
Waiting to have lunch at Polly’s Pancake Parlor. This place seem to be permanently busy not matter the weather, day or season!.
And so glad we can go straight into watching episode 1 of Season 2 of TUA!
We are watching the final episode of Season 1 of “The Umbrella Academy”.
I feeling a little better today than yesterday thanks to getting a little more sleep. We had a celebration of my sister-in-law’s life here in Twin Mountain and the event was a success. It could have been about 10 degrees cooler, I suppose, but at least we didn’t have to contend with rain or wind.
A lot of people are reading Rebecca Traister at the moment. We need a way forward.
A couple of my friends went to the Midnight Oil Final Tour concert last night. I’m envious as well as nostalgic for another time.
I’m trying to make a link to an article posted on Facebook and realizing once again why it’s so much better to be posting and reading on a place like Micro.blog.
Howard Zinn seems to be writing for today in this 17-year-old essay.
And I have congestion with associated vertigo at the moment. I need to ensure I don’t forget the Allegra
I’m feeling a bit drained at the moment. I really should try and get more than 6 hours of sleep a night!
James Fallows on the Supreme Court’s ongoing loss of legitimacy. A must read today.
[James Fallows](James Fallows from Breaking the News fallows@substack.com) on the Supreme Court’s ongoing loss of legitimacy. A must read today.
Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s latest column clearly describes what went down at yesterday’s Jan 6 hearings.
Season Six of “Peaky Blinders” has gotten quite dark.
We visited cousin just down the road and admired their garden not to mention the horses.


The Littleton food coop makes the most delicious quiche which we finished eating for supper last night.
I think we chose a good time to be away from the city. Atlanta tied on Wednesday with heat record set in 1964.
We had pancakes at Polly’s earlier today.
This field is just around the corner from the drone no-fly-zone, but I’m sure the same restrictions could be put in place at any moment. Anyway, I’m obviously a little bit obsessed with these flowers and this is partly because we’re usually not visiting these parts at this time of year. Our usual time for visiting New England and in particular Northern New Hampshire in the fall. My photography usually consists of the many-hued maple leaves, etc at that time of the year.