Locator: 49752MERRYCHRISTMAS.
Photo taken Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025. The New Yorker double issue: last issue of 2025, first issue of 2026.
Unseasonably warm weather.
81°F yesterday. Not quite as warm today but then should be in the 80s again tomorrow.
Weather can be absolutely dreadful and freezing this time of year in Texas. But not this year.
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The Book Page
The Big Goodbye, Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, Sam Wasson, c. 2020. My copy, from ThriftBooks, after being withdrawn from the LeMont Public Library, Lemont, Illinois. Hard cover.
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues, Jonathan Kennedy, c. 2023. Soft cover.
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts, Scott Anderson (b. 1959); copyright, September 1, 2020 by Scott Anderson.
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder, updated and condensed (still 806 pages), c. 2009.
