Done For The Day -- No Compelling Reason For Any More Blogging Today -- April 12, 2024

Locator: 46984B.

I'm headed down to the Bat Cave.

I'll do some reading. Catch up on blogging on recreational reading and Apple, but no more blogging on investing, the Bakken, etc, until later this evening.

Good luck to all. 

Later: April's Director's Cut has been released. Link here. February, 2024, production.

• crude oil: 1,246,691 bpd, up 13%
• crude price oil, price:
• WTI: $85.02
• North Dakota light sweet: $76.50
• natural gas: 3,361,587 MCF/day, up 12%;
• 95% capture
• DUCs
• February: 300
• January, 284
• producing, a new all-time high
• February, 18,734
• January, 18,703

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The Rest Of My Day

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WKRP in Cincinnati

This opening with Herb and Bailey was exactly channeled by two other sitcom stars coming along immediately thereafter. See if you can connect the dots.

WKPR in Cincinnati: 1978 - 1982.

The other sitcom; 1982 - 1993.

Wow. Link here.

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The Book Page

My notes --in progress -- from Stauffer's books are at this link.

I'm reading Stauffer's biography of Lord Byron for the first time alongside re-reading Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

May 27, 1816: Percy Shelley meets Lord Byron for the first time and literature is changed forever. When I read Stouffer's description of that meeting, it reminded me of this:

Both events were truly momentous. Wow, never quit reading.

Chapter 5, in Stouffer's book, along with so much else is a travelogue from London to Waterloo to Koblenz to Lake Geneva. I traveled that same route many times, in segments, over the years. 

My most memorable trip was hitchhiking from Williston, ND, to NYC; flying to Luxembourg, and then hiking Europe for the two-and-a-half-months after graduation from college. My mom loaned me $1,000 which paid for air transportation to Europe, a Eurail pass and my living expenses for the summer. I came back home with $400 in cash if I recall correctly.

I don't know if that's entirely correct, but I do know the $1,000 is absolutely correct, and I do know that I came home with a fair amount of money but not sure if it was $400. I caught rides with friends from NYC back to Williston on my return trip. 

But I digress.

The entire chapter is great but perhaps something relatively important that connects Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Vampyre, Frankenstein, and Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights, and English lore of the 18th and 19th centuries (and perhaps the 20th and 21st centuries) was the definition of the "undead" -- vampires and zombies. I'm not convinced there's a precise definition of either but rather one gets a gestalt of the phenomenon of the "undead" by reading from several sources. 

Zombies are scary but paper tigers. The real "terrors" are vampires. 

Anyway, enough of this. For the archives. I can't wait until Sophia is old enough to really start studying western literature.

I also have to review trigonometry but that's another story.