Friday 1/9/26 It's a playoff, a tournament, so you can't really say that Miami doesn't deserve to be where they're at, but rightly or wrongly this Hurricanes team being in the national championship game feels like a result of happenstance to me rather than being indicative of the quality of the team. I just don't think they're that strong, even relative to the field. They could very well win the national championship, though. But a team from the ACC? The weak ACC? And an ACC
Friday 1/9/26 I don't believe that people are capable any longer of being organically interested in someone else. I don't think fascination exists where we might look at someone, see what they do, who they are, observe them, and be increasingly interested, drawn to them, wish to know them. I think it's other things. Usually things a person wants/has to have that have nothing to do with a specific other person. I know a woman who got divorced. She then had to move in with her
Friday 1/9/26 What is a country? Is the United States a country? To me, it's now just a place where people live. Mostly unintelligent, uneducated, lowest common denominator, selfish, narcissistic people, with brutish, base, and corrupt elected officials who attempt to run the country for their own personal gain and to gratify their desires and satiate sick needs. Of lust, power, money, control. The goal--and the motor of their cold, unchecked, detached, inhumane, un-human psy
Thursday 1/8/26 Back when I first began running stairs in the 294-stair Bunker Hill Monument in 2016, I'd kind of just go over to Charlestown and, well, go up. That seemed like something. After all, it was a lot of stairs to the top, if you don't think in terms of what a lot of stairs is, or have much experience with big numbers of stairs. I was walking over there one time and when I was between the ball field on Atlantic and the skating rink closer to the bridge, I texted so