If Mamdani can pull off any of this we'll be much better off. Its certainly a sea change I appreciate! If we manage to have actual elections next year they could go very well indeed.

I was at the Frick a few weeks ago! Several rooms are basically as they were and I spent the whole time in them going "this was this guy's house !"

Good plan, Tom (aside from the insomnia part, I hope you can get away from that)

We have an atmospheric river sweeping through today. I very much want to curl up in a blanket and drink tea and read What Stalks the Deep and be happy I don’t have to go outside but stupid work keeps expecting me to do work.

Completely unrelated to anything - I impulse bought 4 different apples at the grocery store yesterday and I'm having an Envy today for breakfast. They lured me in partly because they were attractively displayed just as I walked in the door but probably largely because I have been reading Chuck Wendig's apple reviews, so I went to find his review of the Envy and I can't find one. Alas!