Christmas itself was good. Family and children back home, food, chilling and hanging out together, board games, and so on. We had a good Christmas dinner, everyone was safe and healthy, gifts were exchanged, games were played, and we went on several family outings between Christmas Eve and Christmas day including the family dog, who, as dogs are wont to do, had the best day ever. The evening outing was pleasant - a local county festival/faire that's been running for the last week, and even Chri…
Over at Pushing Rubber, Adam notes a post of Cappy's, and affirms that a true holiday, actually getting some rest, is not a "holiday" at all. > Remember what I said the other week about rest and rejuvenation? It’s pretty important seeing as it could quite literally save your life. I was gratified to read that piece from Cappy. He’s had a recent health scare and it has woken him up, (although I very much hope that it doesn’t transform him into some vegan health nut because that would be sad whe…
A friend of mine makes the excellent point that Star Wars is not for adults, but for kids. And that's fine [https://barbarianbookclub.com/2019/12/10/star-wars-its-for-kids/]. > Sadly, like a lot of things from the past, I should have let this movie live fondly in my memories. It’s a good movie, if you ignore the CGI vandalism Lucas vomited onto his own work, but it’s a movie made for 12-year old boys and I’m a 36-year old father. The acting, the plot, it’s rather cringe. In my mind’s eye I rem…
A friend of mine introduced me to the below Corb Lund song. It's a haunting little bit about the hazards of mercenaries. The album it is off of, Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier, is an excellent piece of work, focused on horses and horse people.…
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the 303 day battle of Verdun [https://infogalactic.com/info/Battle_of_Verdun].…