Bright sun today. Cool yet but not cold. We had a busy morning with shopping. We figured today would be the best day to do that. We had four stops and that means we are now resting. Dairy, grocery, pay rent and drugstore all make a very tiring itinerary.
Finally got to my reading and found another of David Kaiser's comparison of one of today's newspapers with one from decades in the past. He compares both the format, number of front-page stories and topics covered. The papers were Saturday's Washington Post and one from nearly the same date in 1943. The times were definitely very different and our focus is also very different. During WWII we had a broader vision that encompassed the entire world. Today we seem to be more narrowly focused on matters closer to home. I don't think that is a good thing.
Today is one of those days when I wonder just how useful the internet, specifically e-mail, really is. I had over 150 e-mails. So far almost all of the messages have gone in the trash. It isn't just the vast tsunami of ads. It is the multiples--as many of six or more of the very same ad for something I have no interest in or need for. Often those same ads appear, in multiples, further on in the list. Wading through this shit is a royal pain in the ass.
As the old saying goes "sometimes you can't win for losing." The area of the Turkiye and Syrian border that had the big earthquakes two weeks had another today--a 6.4.
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