New Year’s Eve, 2024
What are your plans for tonight?
"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
What are your plans for tonight?
To all my readers, I wish you a merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah. Happy Boxing Day. I’ll try to check in again before New Year’s Day, but if my intentions are overcome by events, Happy New Year as well!
This has been a good year for reading, maybe not as good as the Covid year or the two that followed, but still pretty good. In my case, it included some great re-reads, notably the two Michael Chabon masterpieces included in this end-of-year post. Not included here, but also revisited in 2024: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx […]
It’s a crock, all of it. Settle down, all right?
My friend Burt, a regular Paul’s Thing reader, alerted me to a New York Times article on potential long-term physical and mental health effects of flying fighter aircraft.
I’m fine with Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter.
Donna and I married 59 years ago this day, the 2nd of December, 1965.