Category: play
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TBR 07/02/2026
I am only about one-fifth of the way through the 1,100-page doorstop that is Chernow’s biography of Grant, and — this is the best part — I haven’t touched it in weeks. The only way for me to get through a book of this size is to read two or three hundred pages of it,… Read.
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Dead Eyes
B and I finished listening to the podcast “Dead Eyes” last week. I don’t normally listen to podcasts, but this one caught my attention when the creator and host, comedian Connor Ratliff, appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to hype the final episode of the show, when actor Tom Hanks came on to answer… Read.
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Blue Hills Felsenmeer 5/23/2026
After checking out the wooden canoe festival, I ate lunch a couple blocks down the street at the Round Man Brewing Company, then drove about a half-hour south of Spooner to hike to the Blue Hills Felsenmeer. While I was helping cut trail at the Ice Age Trail event last week in the Blue Hills,… Read.
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Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum
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IAT Hemlock Creek Segment 5/22/2026
Just one week after volunteering to help build new trail for the Ice Age Trail Alliance in the Blue Hills of Wisconsin, just northeast of Rice Lake, I went back up nort dere this weekend to check out the seasonal opening of the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum in Spooner, Wisconsin. I learned about the museum… Read.
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wild goose chase
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Blue Hills trail building 5/13/26 – 5/17/26
I spent five days last week in the Blue Hills of northern Wisconsin, helping a gaggle of about 90 volunteers build new trail for the Ice Age Trail Alliance so they can re-route the IAT through a more scenic part of the county. It’s a beautiful part of the state that I don’t visit often… Read.
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TBR 05-07-2026
“Platform Decay” is the latest installment of a series of books from Martha Wells nicknamed “The Murderbot Diaries.” I read it in two days and enjoyed it, but then I enjoyed all the books in the series, although I enjoyed the earlier books more than the later ones, if I’m honest. The books chronicle Murderbot’s… Read.
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new ride, who dis?
I finally bought a recumbent bicycle. I’ve wanted one for years but the price always scared me away. Used recumbents cost more than a thousand dollars; new recumbents cost more than two thousand. It was hard enough to make myself spend more than three hundred on a nice Trek bicycle back in 1998. But Monday… Read.
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TBR 4/9/2026
This Is Drivel 