Alice and I posted a new podcast yesterday. This week, she visits with two German brothers who are running and cycling the length of Africa.

I tried a service, dlvrit.com, to be specific to allow me to cross post from WordPress to BlueSky. Ooops! It posted 56 versions of the two posts that I had made here. Sorry! I have now shut that down and things should return to normal.

Sunny and warm first morning from Arucas on Gran Canaria.

Here are links to the two podcasts, “Gatelangs” and “Museum”, that I mentioned:

• Her er alle episodene av «Gatelangs» – fvn.no
• Museum – et program om norsk historie – NRK Radio

I woke up this morning to an email from Facebook informing me that a post on one of the US Army Entertainment pages I administer had violated Facebook’s terms of service. As a result, that page, and my personal Facebook account were suspended. I have absolutely no idea what was posted. However, I suspect that someone trolled the page and posted a comment with something so vile that Facebook had to shut it down. But, again, I have no idea what happened.

So, I haven’t gone off in a huff. I’m just in the time out box for a while. Ironically, I was actually enjoying Facebook this time around.

31 years ago on Thanksgiving, I was in the Kearney Community Hospital with a broken neck, after I had totalled my brother’s BMW . This year, I was in the Sørlandet Sykehus in Arendal having elective surgery on my foot. I prefer this year’s model.

Peace and serenity were our companions when this was taken today just before 09:00 out at Rossevann during our daily walk.  It was a bit muddy out in the woods, but the sun was just breaking through when we rounded the corner down on the old logging road.  

I fear that peace and serenity will not reign in my old homeland today.  Chaos seems likely to be America’s companion for the near future.  I wish her well.  I hope that whatever the decision, she can live with it with some measure of grace and dignity.  

We’ll see…