Just recently Hawk and I resumed watching the Wheel of Time TV series with season 2. Here are my thoughts as we watched S2E1, "A Taste of Solitude". Originally I started structuring this as Five Things but then realized it was getting way too long, with 4-5 paragraphs per Thing. Thus I'm splitting it up into a few pieces. The first one is the ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! We canceled plans at the last minute to join our friends in Chicago because of the latest Coronavirus surge but chose to celebrate in appropriate pandemic fashion.


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In my previous blog I wrote about a new streaming series released on Amazon Prime, The Wheel of Time. The arrival of this TV program takes me back 30 years; that's how long ago I read the first book of the series by Robert Jordan.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and go, Jordan wrote in the foreword to each book. Well, the 30 years of the ( Read more... )

 A new series debuts on Amazon Prime streaming tonight: "The Wheel of Time", based on a cycle of novels by the same name written by Robert Jordan and (later) Brandon Sanderson.


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Columbia, SC - Tue, 2 Jul 2019, 11pm

We had a fuller day today than expected with our self-guided foot tour through Charleston. (See previous blog and the one before that.) Not only was it a long day with lots of walking but it was exhausting because of the oppressive heat and humidity ( Read more... )

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Las Vegas - Mon, 1 Jan 2018, 12:30am

Here are a few pictures from our New Year's Eve celebration with darkfriends in Las Vegas.

First, our dinner for 28 people went well. We started early, chopping vegetables and doing other prep work with helpers beginning at 2. That enabled us to start putting food on the table at 6:30 ( Read more... )

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Las Vegas - Sat, 30 Dec 2017, 11:45pmHere it is late Saturday evening, with about 24 hours left to go in 2018. One carload of us have headed back from Main Mansion to Secondary House for the evening. The party over there was winding down with about a third of our friends wandering off to sleep or something equivalent. I ( Read more... )

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Las Vegas, NV - Sat, 30 Dec 2017, 8:30am

After our first attempt at hiking the Calico Tanks trail Thursday at Red Rock Canyon went bust and we had to settle for another trail, and then found another trail for a "bonus round", we decided we'd give it a third try on Saturday. Today. We'd already set aside Saturday morning in ( Read more... )

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Las Vegas, NV - Fri, 29 Dec 2017, 7pm

When we join our darkfriend friends for these annual New Year bacchanalias it's always a question, "What other than eating, drinking, and hanging out talking trash do we do?" When we were all younger those three were enough to carry us through a long weekend together but nowadays we ( Read more... )

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Las Vegas, NV - Thu, 28 Dec 2017, 11:55pm

After dumping sand in our hotel this morning and then going on a hike in Red Rock Canyon and a second hike in Red Rock Canyon we drove over to the house we're going to be staying at in Las Vegas for the next four nights. Actually it's one of two houses we're going to be staying at ( Read more... )