Almost ate the baby this year. Happy Mardi Gras day!

Thinking about my dad on what would have been his 88th birthday. I don’t remember why exactly, but at some point when I was in 6th or 7th grade he pulled his old college text and showed me the Greek alphabet in an appendix. I promptly memorized it for no good reason. Guess my path was set early.

A brisk 11 degree morning 6 miler on packed snow and ice to get the blood flowing and the beard frozen. And yes this post is entirely to troll @anotarian.bsky.social who doubted my insanity.

“Archaeologists were surprised to find the most common textbook example of Roman architecture made of the same stone as literally everything else”