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Commercial Pilot!
Our resident pilot-in-training has now obtained his Commercial license! Despite what it sounds like, that doesn't mean you...
sursumcorda, 1 July 2026 |
A Small, Symbolic Gesture
It was a small gesture, but it felt so good. The government gave us these for free, and they've been stashed in our closet...
Meeting Each Other in Real Life
I've been out of the country for three weeks, and I never look at Tik Tok anyway, but I hear that it has been blowing up with European...
Everyone's Gone to the Moon
I've often said that the 1960's were a miserable decade. Not for me, personally: a healthy family life protected me from dangers I only...
I Looked Out My Office Window, and I Found...
...Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR armadillos cavorting all around . They are voracious bug eaters, and welcome. I see...
Hamilton!
We finally saw Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton . I've been aware of the show for some ten years. In April of 2016 I wrote, ...
The Fun Behind "More Fun"
In my More Fun post, I mentioned that my "I've had fun before" cartoon was a "four-way collaboration among me, my grandson,...
More Fun
A companion to my previous post on fun . A four-way collaboration among me, my grandson, Copilot, and Claude. Details to come, I...
Fun
As promised in a previous post, here's a follow-up to my dad's thoughts about happiness , during a 1993 Elderhostel lecture in Uruguay....
Analyzing Happiness
One characteristic I share with of both my parents is a deep-seated suspicion of psychology and psychiatry, especially in their popular...