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It finally happened – it’s cold. And I mean cold. The temperature outside is -10 Fahrenheit, with the windchill bringing it down to -25. That’s winter. It’s supposed to get all the way up to 9 degrees today. It’s about time. We’ve had an extremely mild winter (which is supposed to return on Tuesday, with…

I was sick on Friday – the achy, can’t focus kind of sick. I don’t often get feverish when I get the flu (or some other general sickness), but I wasn’t doing well. I was rallying on Saturday (so I thought) – shoveled us out, felt like I’d be fine on Sunday. I woke up…

Dropping a jazz podcast today – a week late. I’ve been very behind lately, and need to catch up quickly. Today’s jazz podcast is an overview of classic jazz – players and tunes. These are touchstone pieces – jazz I listen to often, even if they’re now part of the canon. But that’s because they’re…

How strange – my post got eaten. I may try to re-write this later – or not. Not sure that I really had much to say, anyway. So let’s listen to today’s podcast, which starts with the set that got bumped by Bowie. Tune into Robbie Robertson, The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Rolling…

Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump in Iowa this week. That wasn’t surprising, as Trump has been pushing his outsider status to a group of voters that would appeal to Palin. What was surprising, however, was the”speech” Palin gave endorsing Trump. It was long, rambling and incoherent. It sounded extemporaneous, but I’ve heard that she actually…

I woke up on Monday morning to see that David Bowie had died. It came as a shock – I had just purchased his new album on Friday, and did not know that he was sick (he did not disclose his illness to many people). The suddenness of his passing just days after his birthday…

For a special Christmas treat my wife and I went to Costa Rica. We were there from Christmas through New Year’s Day. It was fantastic – every day was sunny and 90 – with many days having a nice breeze to keep the temperature pleasant. I normally don’t care for hot temperatures, but I adapted…

Hope you had a Happy New Year – my wife and I spent New Year’s Day traveling back to the U.S. from Costa Rica. I’ll add more about the trip to Costa Rica later – we loved it there, though (and will return – a possible retirement destination as well). I’m going to post his…

If things go as planned, I am in Costa Rica right now. My wife and I decided to take a vacation during Christmas week, and we decided on Costa Rica (with an assist from my son). This means that the Wi-Fi in Costa Rica is sufficient enough that I can post from afar, and that…

Martin Shkreli, Pharma Bro, was arrested earlier this week on securities fraud charges, and he has since resigned as CEO from Turing Pharmaceuticals, where he had increased the cost of Daraprim from $13.50 (still not cheap) to $750 a pill. Justice! Doesn’t happen often enough, but did here. Although, the new acting CEO did not…