Hoping to be in Cardiff this spring for a week or more, and maybe a bus trip up the west side of Wales. Really looking forward to it!

It’s getting hard to find my way through the thicket of Trump craziness and distractions to get to the meat of other significant political events.

TIL that making an appointment with someone who uses the Ethiopian calendar could be a challenge: twelve 30-day months plus a 5- or 6-day kicker. Year zero was 7 or 8 years after the Gregorian started. Finally, it uses 12-hour days starting at 6am “our time”.

For far more details, see Wikipedia!

Once again Drafts broke when the annual subscription auto-renewed. I like the app when it is working, but this has been going on for years and it is so tiresome!

I just bought a graphic novel by Chris Ware after listening to an interesting interview with him on CBC’s Bookends this morning. (I’ll put a link to the interview in tonight’s Eclectic Articles post.)

Looking ahead, how long after people start buying autonomous cars before they’ll be asking to be able to send them to pick up lattĂ©s at the Starbucks drive through? 😄