My great-great-something grandfather and his son both enlisted in the Civil War. The father died almost immediately of dysentery (or something); the son went on to fight through the war.

That is some weird stuff!

Two months is the new two weeks

I was seven when this came to Seattle, and I ran back-and-forth through the exhibit looking at stuff. Didn't get a degree, but certainly fostered a life-long interest in history and archaeology.

4a. Somehow manage to dump a few uncooked rice kernels on the floor. Again.

NASA mission control in Houston regains communications with Artemis astronauts traveling around the Moon after an expected blackout that lasted some 40 minutes.

"We will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other," says astronaut Christina Koch, after they passed behind the Moon

Maybe you'd rank higher in a RomZomCom apocalypse?

I marinate mine in a balsamic sauce, and then - good cheese melted on top is the key.

It is most vulnerable in it's soft, cheesy underbelly - I shall attack it there!

That second picture really makes it look great.

The Goa'uld are going to be pissed...

Markets will melt down over this…

Oh - I agree. But, I suspect people who are against other languages spoken probably worry that someone's saying something about them. Or, they're being left out of something. Who knows?

Missing out on whatever the other people are saying?

FOMO?

Well, they asked me first...but, I told them I was busy.

They tried to keep it secret, but eventually it leaked out.

Let them like cake

I've made a similar recipe and it's a great combo!

Can we bet on whether the TV's will be working by tomorrow?

The Oval Office looks more gaudy every time I see a new picture of it. Certainly, there's no place left to add more gold....is there?

TSA PreCheck Express

Probably has sick leave left over and wants to use it up. I mean, who wants to let go of time off?

But, but - we bombed all those other countries and nothing bad happened (to us)….

Envious...

New - from the makers of OnlyFans, comes OnlyFools…

It does seem like there's a lot more irrational hostility to expertise on Bluesky (and elsewhere) these days. Just to mess with them, you should tell them that you heard milk will wash the typo away. 😉

Nobel Prize winner, not Spelling Bee winner...

Copy of Bronze Age Kimberley Dirk

My copy of the Kimberley Dirk. Made by Jeroen Zuiderwijk. Those lines remind me of Art Deco design.

I've had some great meals in London.