Told my Spouse I was running late because I got grabbed by the bookstore.

But it auto corrected it to:

"I got stabbed by the bookstore".

But I wasn't even buying murder mysteries today!

Not sure why I'm remembering this now.

A bunch of college aged people.

One woman said "You know, it's like everyone does when they want to break up but don't want hurt feelings, you set their jacket on fire."

The rest of sat in silence, dumbfounded.

I don't think she understood that "everyone" was just her.

No, she was not joking.

Wife was watching a PBS American Experience documentary about Rachel Carson and was startled by what looked to be a very thin, very young version of me dealing with fire ants.

It's a very brief clip, but after she showed it to me:

If that wasn't my father (in Alabama who worked for the USDA, first job dealing with fire ants in the 1950s) he had a Doppelganger.

After living in #Alabama & #Oklahoma and half living in #Tennessee and #Texas, it's so much nicer to live in a state with a decent (not corrupt, not bigoted, not hateful) Governor.

Now let's get a President that's *not* doing everything to destroy our country.

https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/114258916839704792

Used to hardly ever curse, only when I was really angry.

Then idiots who shouldn't have had licenses to drive changed that.

Still only in anger, but more often because I started to really pay attention to how things are connected and realized there was more to be angry about.

Watched the latest "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver.

Pretty much said "asshole" about almost everyone they talked about in a continuous stream of curses.

English is a strange language. I pronounce a lot of words wrong until I'm corrected because I've read, and still read, a lot.

"Euthanasia" is a a word that I thought was pronounce almost like "Lufthansa". Yoot-han-see-ah.

When I heard it said, I heard "Youth in Asia" and having the early 1970s as a reference, I thought it was referring to young Vietnamese people and how they dealt with the war.

The same word.

Years ago, I had this as the basis for my Master's thesis. And never finished my final dissertation because I discovered that the book "Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes" by Robert S. Paul in my bibliography covered everything that I had planned to write about. Also, I met my now spouse and deemed time with her more important.

"The Religion of Detection"

#religion #b_religion #p_lit #DetectiveFiction #ct_biography

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-religion-of-detection/id261779770?i=1000682252235

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0kd8prm.mp3

A small thing that changed years ago. The song "Brandy" by Looking Glass was on Oldies radio stations. The internet was useful for searching for things. But every time I looked for information about the song, only Brandy, the star of the TV show "Moesha" came up. A few years later, James Gunn used the song in the Marvel Comics movie "Guardians oder the Galaxy" and it hit large again. Now "Brandy music" gets the pop star and "Brandy song" gets the song.

##ct_biography ##m_music #music #pn_film

12:30pm. Even though we both had worked on things today, we were both still in our bathrobes.

In the the kitchen.

Watching an electric kettle heating up with water and soap to be de-scaled from limestone deposits.

We looked at each other, smiled and both said: "Ah, marriage. This is the dream."

She gets me, she really, really gets me.

Renewed our Costco membership after 3 years just because of their awesome response to hateful asshats.