If you’ve followed me on Instagram for a while, you probably know that my husband Jake and I drive long distances pretty often. Mostly, this is a practical choice based on the fact that our families both live far away (but not so far that we can’t drive there in a day), we work remotely, and we have a dog. In other words, it often made more sense to drive down with the dog and stay in Florida for two or three weeks during the holidays than it did to board Winnie and fly down.

Disclaimer: Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This is not a story about Lindyman, I just need to clean my achieves, as I don’t want to keep this garbage forever. I have no idea who the guy is or if he/she is real. There was a rumor that she is a rebellious nun who escaped from Cambodia, now living in Oslo, practicing Mahayana, and occasionally travelling to France and US, but it is probably not more than a rumor.

EDIT: After writing this post I played through a campaign, and I now feel that my pace was a bit slow, and thus vulnerable to the Avatar Clock. I have made several revisions to correct this - moving forward the deadlines for Liberation and the Golden Path missions. Research: Resistance Communications - Allows you to connect to nearby regions Modular Weapons - Allows use of Weapon Upgrades Basic Research - Gives you one extra Scientist

At the risk of chasing the proverbial ambulance, I will continue the practice I began earlier this year, with the deaths of Martin Amis and Cormac McCarthy, of reposting here on Substack an earlier essay of mine on an author who has just died. I think it’s important to discuss the writing on the day of the writer’s death. Sadly, the poet Louise Glück left us today. She was our last American Nobel laureate, and the last Nobel laureate whose works I immediately went out and read upon hearing the news from Stockholm.

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