Raining

We have returned to this year's "rest state" in weather.

Happy Thanksgiving...

...to our Best Neighbors to the North.

Stupid brain tricks

I can't come up with any legitimate excuse for having that "Ashokan Farewell" fiddle lament running through my head -- the one Ken Burns used as a main theme in his Civil War PBS mini-series . . .

I mean, I don't think I've seen the series since it first aired in the 1990s.
 

Investment guide for the perplexed

MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, by Charles Mackay