Huh. Apparently my brother has avoided being taken up by the immigration police for the past year and a bit (he was arrested for overstaying his visa last December) and has now got a job in Dallas. So he’ll be in the US for the first time in 18 years. I can’t wait to hear the culture shock. (He’s crazy right wing and it has annoyed the crap out of me that he talked such shit despite….not actually living here??)

Huh indeed. I'm sorry you have one of those brothers! Mine annoys the crap out of me, but the rare times we see each other we avoid almost all topics.

... where was he, meara?

I have a guy here from Sonic to install actual fiber optic cable! So much faster internet!

Turns out "reconstitution" really means "nobody has to wear a mask, even in meetings and common areas". Sigh.

I'm not eager to discover that all these relaxed requirements will result in big jumps in Covid numbers in three or four weeks...

Yay fiber optic cable! Boo acting like covid is over when it isn’t. I’m like we have as many cases per day right now as we did in November, and more than last summer, but now it’s suddenly ok to give it all up?

My brother was in the Czech Republic. Easy to talk shit about Obamacare when you have socialized medicine, and somehow he didn’t find it hypocritical that he criticized immigrants to the US, but is still not fluent in Czech himself.

Heh. Remember "Freedom Fries"?

A Quebecois restaurant just renamed poutine to «Frite Fromage Sauce» [link]

Oh, because "poutine" sounds too much like Putin. That took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out.

Hey Buffistas.

And yesterday's HONY was gutting but THEN had a satisfying ending. I kept checking it all day like I was waiting for a new Dickens chapter to drop.

It's totally going to be a miniseries starring Reese Witherspoon.

Although, I must say, I personally know a comparable story that goes in entirely the opposite direction where the wife connived and successfully was a golddigger, had everything she aspired too and then Broke Bad and lost it all and went to jail and lost custody of her kids.

Oh, is that why? I never would have figured that out. I was just trying to remember what people were mad at the French for back then, there's been so much manufactured outrage of one kind and another.

They were mad at the French, because they didn't want to invade Iraq with us, -t.

Tht rings a bell. I knew it was something stupid, but that hardly narrows it down.

Timelies all!

Mr S ended falling asleep before dinner yesterday.(He woke up up briefly when Gary gave him dinner, which he didn't eat much of, if any) Amazingly, he didn't come into our room until 6:20 this morning, which pretty close to when we usually get up.