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Putting the finishing touches on this week's newsletter. Light week so I've taken the opportunity to add some things (back in) and play with the format a little. Experimenting with doing a comment thread here for the newsletter, but I'm not sold on the notion, though I keep going back and forth. For my innumerable qualms with the platform, I do like Substack's approach to this. You can sign up here if so inclined. Unrelated but pertinent: I have a summer beanie now and I kinda love it.

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Still learning to be bald, still liking it – though my head does get cold, which is a new thing.

Moderately exciting weather last night, severe storm warning, et al: ended up being nothing major but we did have a definite downpour along with some flashy lights and the occasional gust. Power went out for a second or two (having gone out for about two hours yesterday afternoon) overnight, long enough to make one clock blink but not enough to require re-setting. Seems as though I won't need the chainsaw today but I won't be surprised if I do; can only see so much with a flashlight at 0500 and heavy leaves and broken tree limbs do, after all, have a precedent in this yard. While we had no indoor flooding or anything like that (yay windows), we did have a terrified Morkie (thunder scares the literal piss out of her).

Postscript on DR MABUSE, THE GAMBLER coming later today (or perhaps tomorrow, depending on if I can find the words to say what I want to say). TLDR version: loved it.