Welcome to Summer BYCU I'm not a huge fan of Liquor.com, but sometimes, they suggest a recipe that looks too good not to try. This Summer Friday Cocktail [https://www.liquor.com/recipes/summer-fridays/#gs.LXMWeV4] is one of them. It sounds like a perfect way

Miscellaneous Rambling Freakin' Africa. Stupid, ignorant Africa: "More than 200 farmers from South Africa have applied for humanitarian visas in Australia after allegedly suffering attacks for being white, according to the Australian Home Affairs Ministry." Link [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/05/no_author/persecuted-white-south-

Hump Day Rambling My home garden is almost finished. The side yard is looking nice (see pic below). I'm really hoping the poppy flowers I planted come in. They're "Jimi Purple Haze" poppies. I suspect I planted them a bit too late and may

Miscellaneous Rambling Memorial Day weekend is almost here. Marie and the kids abandon me for the weekend so they can go bird watching with Marie's family. I have the option of going, too, of course, but I'd rather slam my genitals in a car door, so

Miscellaneous Rambling I ran across a really cool program this weekend: Acorns [https://www.acorns.com/]. It's micro-investing. For just $1.00 a month, you can tie your credit card to the program and it will round up your spare change from credit card purchases and invest

> Do not speak -- unless it improves on silence. – Buddhist proverb | | □∧◯ > — Zen Proverbs (@ZenProverbs) May 18, 2018 [https://twitter.com/ZenProverbs/status/997581900544921600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Saturday Rambling I walk the pre-death tightrope all the time: Just let myself go and become irrelevant or try to stay engaged. Play the Zen master or read the newspaper. Use the garden to go Siddhartha-at-the-river [https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/siddhartha/summary-and-analysis/

BYCU This is the best booze story of the week: Austrian man jailed up for glorifying Nazism after cops found "joke" Hitler-branded wine in his home [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/austrian-man-locked-up-glorifying-12551158] . The man apparently thought some pro-Hitler

*My apologies for yesterday's glitch. I'm not sure what happened, and I'm not convinced it won't happen again, but my hosting service and I are working through the problems. *I'm not posting much today, for fear it won't

Hump Day Rambling I just read last night that Tom Wolfe died. I read a bit of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I liked it, but didn't finish it. I might have to read it this year during vacation. The urbane but humble Terry Teachout's