I took my last ride on an MBTA electric trolly bus today, they are taking them all out of service and pulling down the overhead power lines for good. I have been riding them on and off for 40 years, often on a daily basis. 🚎

Last evening we went to a dance, one we went to regularly in the before times, it was nice to see real people, hear some great music, and actually dance.

We signed up for the Peacock streaming service so that we could watch We Are Ladyparts and the experience was not very good. But the show is great!

The MST3K Season 13 premiere was a great disappointment. Low production values, technical difficulties, and worst of all…not very funny.

Trying to decide if I should cancel my Netflix subscription until the next season of The Witcher drops.

This week I have to decide if I want to continue to work from home or start commuting to the reopened office downtown in a few weeks.

Went to Turtle Swamp Brewery last night to see some friends play Cajun music and had some gumbo and fried catfish.

Despite several inches of snow we made it to the concert by Le Concert des Nations last evening, a very nice program of 18th century French royal court music.

I’ve been alternating episodes of Around the World in 80 Days (set in 1872) and The Gilded Age (set in 1882) and it’s interesting how the two shows address similar social issues of class, race, and gender.

A couple of weeks ago I rewrote my parser from scratch, it is now much smaller, more recursive, and has test cases to verify that it actually works.

Today is the Presidents’ Day holiday here in the States, traditionally dedicated to George Washington (who enslaved many people and lead the nation in its earliest days) and Abraham Lincoln (who broke the chains of enslavement and preserved the nation, conceived in Liberty).