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Not many of those around lately. We're sitting at an air temperature of 98F, with a "feels like" of 117. I got out for a couple of errands a little before noon, and while it wasn't yet oppressive, it was a long way from comfortable. I'm glad I mowed the front yard Friday morning, leaving the back for Housemate.

Housemate, by the way, is currently being very stupid. It involves an incredibly unstable woman and his own deep need to be with someone - anyone - and I am keeping the fuck out of it.

Guess we're getting the band back together. My SWRPG players have dropped some unsubtle hints about cutting our summer hiatus short and catching the Bellarmine students up when they get back in late August. I'm ready for it, and running a game for new D&D players at Colin's shop yesterday helped.

It's gotten warm in a hurry. Upper 70s, low 80s already this week, and maybe 90 this weekend. I guess I'll take it, but I remain a delicate flower.

Housemate's girlfriend won four tickets to last night's Bats game and gave them to Housemate who promptly distributed them appropriately. The game wasn't all that great - the Bats are a Reds farm team and that entire organization is a fusion-hot mess - but it was a lovely night at Louisville Slugger Field. Slugger is a heck of a nice Triple-A park, easy to get to and from, great views from just about everywhere. I think, though, that I like UofL's Patterson Stadium better. Patterson has the significant advantage of giving me views of three separate railroad lines, so I get time with two of my passions there.

I think I've seen last night's opponent play more often than the Bats - the Indianapolis Indians. For several GenCons, the Indians had Wednesday afternoon games, and I arranged to get to Indy early enough to take in a game. Victory Field is also quite nice, and just a couple of blocks from our preferred hotel for a number of years.

I'm starting to miss GenCon. Not so much the con itself, but seeing my Crafty Games family. I'll go up Sunday night to see Pat and Alex, and that'll be fun. Next year. Back to Indy.

Went to Liberty to see Mom, since I won't be able to on Mother's Day. We had a good few hours talking and running errands together, and Dad got me to figure out a way to store copies of his digital logbooks so that he can easily access them. Taught him how to use and access his iCloud account, and that was a good win for both of us.

Found out that my doofus brother is filing for bankruptcy again. Dude's making up around 80 large a year, maybe more, but ... fuck it, I don't even know. Ultimately, it's outside my light cone, and as long as it doesn't affect Mom&Dad, it will remain so. I just don't care.

A group, or an individual, or four bad dogs in a horse costume has started posting flyers at some of the TARC shelters around the UofL Belknap campus. Calls to "be a man among men" and stand up for "European people and culture" and become a "UofL Identitarian." This torture of the language aside, I'm both contemptuous of and concerned about this. UofL's loudly and proudly inclusive, one of the first universities to offer full benefits to same-sex couples among other good things. Of course, the population isn't monolithic, and in a community the size of UofL's, you're going to have some of these regressive shitweasels.

Back in '89, when I was at UofL for the first time around, there was an incident in one of the sorority spaces - a black student had been assigned a room in panhellenic housing, and some twit slid racist notes under her door. This rapidly became A Thing, and rightfully so, with the woman quickly resettled and, IIRC, the offender being found out and tossed out of school. There were demands by a hastily-organized group that all RAs take cultural awareness training, that white students be required to take a three-credit-hour culture course (the Chinese-descended kid on my floor found his exclusion hilarious), some other stuff. In a few weeks, things settled out, and I'm sure that more came of it, but I was busy falling apart and failing at everything so I don't remember.

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The Dodgers beat the Phillies today, so they aren't swept (again) by a statistically much worse team. One more win and they seal the NL West; they go up against the bottom-of-the-division Giants in LA tomorrow night. The D-backs play the Marlins, who aren't good at all.

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I'm watching Ken Burns' new series on the Vietnam War. It's, unsurprisingly, very good, done with typical Burns style - interviews, a deep dive into numerous factors contributing to the subject, archival footage and photography wherever possible. And Peter Coyote handling the narration. Just amazing work all around, and it breaks down and examines the complexities without overwhelming with detail or oversimplifying things. Worth checking out.

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After crowing about iOS11, I've found a problem, and a pretty serious one. GoodReader hasn't been updated to 64-bit compatibility, so won't work under the 11. This is seriously not good. I use GoodReader pretty heavily, including the Saturday night game, and the loss of function combines with ... just not being able to access the files. I've never had a problem with GoodReader, so this is something of a surprise.

One of the sales goons I'm tasked with doing support work for just asked me, in all seriousness, what "authentic" means.

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