Time to sit on the patio with Revin’s Heart (by @stevendbrewer), a beer, and Ashley.
2024-05-20 11:32
Category: News
2024-05-18 14:30
Whenever I have to go out and do things, especially when I have to see people, or worse yet have to talk to them, and I actually do, I ask the rhetorical question, “Am I not the most socialist of all possible butterflies?” Today I was the most ice cream socialist of all possible butterflies!
2024-05-17 13:18
Putting my fencing mask on always pushes my glasses askew, and often mashes them up worse than that. So, a couple of weeks ago I ordered a pair of prescription goggles, and today they arrived!
They look okay:
And my mask just went on over my goggles no problem!
2024-05-16 11:50
Who knew that Albrecht Dürer wrote—and illustrated!—his own fencing manual? I ordered a copy of Dürer’s Fight Book: The Genius of the German Renaissance and His Combat Treatise.
It predates Meyer, and covers wrestling, dagger, longsword, and messer.
2024-05-16 09:33
People expect the Fed to cut rates, because they are high. But interest rates are not high:
That’s the real fed funds rate going back to the month I graduated from high school. I’d say a real interest rate of 2.0% to 2.5% is more “normal” than the negative-to-zero rates we’ve had since 2007.
2024-05-15 15:01
One signifier of a fast-approaching birthday (when you get to be my age) is that you get ads for life insurance. I mentioned to Jackie that we don’t need life insurance, and she said that it especially didn’t matter because she was counting on me to outlive her.
“For one thing, you’re younger than me. For another, you’re doing all you can to do so. Well, not to outlive me, but to live a long time.”
“I’ll admit,” I replied, “It’s getting rather late for me to die young.”
2024-05-14 08:01
I didn’t get a view of the aurora, because I didn’t stay out long enough for the sky to get fully dark. (I’m an early-to-bed kinda guy.) I did, however, get a rather lovely post-sunset dusk sky picture while I was waiting for full dark.
2023-05-13 19:35
New glassware at the Esperanto group’s meeting venue.
2024-05-13 13:24
I got my signed hardback copy of Revin’s Heart by Steven D. Brewer!!
“… my steampunky fantasy adventure with pirates and airships and a trans protagonist.”
says Steven
2024-05-11 14:48
Ashley’s place on the sofa is no longer in the sun. #dogsofmastodon 🐕 Although it may look like Ashley spends all her time lounging on the sofa, in fact she has had three walks since the previous photo.
