Currently 45°. Second blanket returned to the bed for the third time this year. As always, I stupidly shivered until 3 am before dragging myself to the linen closet. Ahhh. Instant relief.

OhMahGawd I LOVE the new PG! #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

Gameboard only. I'd rather have posted yesterday's, but I needed the grid for DINAR. On internal repeat play: Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC... #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177. Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

"Yassss, Queen", I exclaim when I'm getting more items into the dishwasher than ever before.

Needed the grid for a chunk. Disappointed in myself for misspelling that P6 as a 7lw until the bitter end, even while saying the title of the only piece I know with that word. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

I effing hate the evil IRS! "Direct Pay This Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. Visit Electronic Payment Options for alternative payment methods or come back later and try again. Note that your tax payment is due regardless of IRS Direct Pay online availability." Of course, it is.

Gameboard only. Late start because of wfh screwing with my official day off. Do you ever transiently see a word, but even faster it dissipates? My last word today. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

Besides the STEM expertise, critical thinking excellence, physical fitness, etc. an astronaut needs, surely they're screened for saintly temperament because I could not be crammed with 3 other humans more than two hours before I'd be hatching a murder plot.

Gameboard only. Shoulda been quicker. EELED is in nytxword, but never SB. Do you notice that sometimes SB and Connections have words in common on the same day? Wordle, too. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

Gameboard only. (I was jonesin' to post on Tue, two days in a row, but I needed the grid for UNGLUE, but not UNGLUED. Ridiculous.) #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

Connections Puzzle #1031 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦Wyna, these have a name! 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 120 Rated 3, seems like a 1. Surprising that 75% erred. Posting mostly to gripe about the imprecise descriptor used for Blue.

Aimed to QB without looking at the rankings line, but when frustration insisted, I needed only 1 or 2 points. One, actually. I coulda been a contender. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

A border wall through Big Bend appears to be on hold after public outcry, but questions remain.

Gameboard only. ALKANE AKEE LAKEFALL. Yes, it is. #nytspellingee #hivemind #nytsb

We need your help. The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.

Rumplethinskin showed up ringside at SC believing that within minutes he'd be declared victorious. They'd raise his arm and shout huzzahs to the greatest constitutional scholar and EO writer in history. And he'd rub it in the face of "those" Justices.

That "boat" doesn't even look fun. They're far removed from the environment, the water, preening in palace rooms. Canoes, kayaks, rigid inflatables for whale watching, sleeping under the stars on a little cabin cruiser....that's fun, and priceless.

Why do people go on TV (TPiR) with stringy, dirty hair and rumpled clothes that are basically pajamas? Assuming fuzzy teeth, too. Vexing when the contestant who bids the worst (creates a smaller winning range rather than the largest), makes it on stage and wins the showcase. Luck keeps people dumb.

Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, and Tom Morello performing “The Times They Are A-Changin'”

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

What is wrong with spectators at the #MiamiOpen? Are they drunk? All week they have been yelling and boisterous when players are serving. Chair umps have admonished them several times. (I am currently watching a recorded Women's Final)

And if he's had two incidents bad enough to flip, thereby getting caught, there are likely many, many, many more times he has endangered other people's lives, but didn't get caught.

Connections Puzzle #1021 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 97/99 Rated 5/5, but easy. The 2/5 are hard for me. 42% failed; 90% erred; 4% Purple first

Gameboard only. Almost conceded the last 6/7 points, and then the blasted thing fell from a tree onto my head. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

Our tracker now stands at 163 dead in 47 strikes since Sept. 2. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Connections Puzzle #1019 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 280 37% failed; 74% erred A 4 difficulty, but a quickie. One Green is such a dead straight giveaway, that group should be Yellow.

I rarely post G, but the number of meaty 6, 7, 8 letter words I entered at Amazing thinking, This is G! No. This is G! No. became a comedy. No PG. Don't know their number. Don't wanna know. Why can't we append IA to that noun? #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

Sixty percent of Texas counties did not have a pharmacy in 2023. In 2025, more than 4.3 million Texans lived in pharmacy deserts, meaning they must travel farther to reach a pharmacy than a supermarket. And one pharmacy closes each week in Texas, according to the Texas Pharmacy Association.

Under the Regency Act 1953, however, Melania can’t dissolve Parliament or appoint a new prime minister without a second counsellor of state’s signature.

This is an exciting new constitutional development.

I'm mad again at the 80's after being reminded of Iran Contra during lunch, listening to Reagan lie lie lie, facilitated by his admin destroying documents. And then Bush pardoning everyone. The same BS over and over again from GOP/MAGA.

Oh, that's how you get the IG video to post here. www.instagram.com/reels/DWKQjn...

Gameboard only. I'm likely the last to mention the missing 8l PG! #nytspellingbee #hivemind

Connections Puzzle #1014 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 144 Comeuppance after's yesterday's post. Y and G immediately sorted, but it's been too long since I Blued. Miffed not to see Purple first. Difficulty 5; 45% failed; 84% erred

Connections Puzzle #1013 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 84 This is rated 5 difficulty? 41% failed and 78% erred. The puzzles rated 2 almost always require me to think more than the 5's. This was ~1 minute. Weird.

Parrsboro, NS, The Maple Inn, languished on a sofa under bay windows cranked wide to the chill, dark air, exhausted from a day's exploring, but freshly bathed, foghorns lowing in the distance. It's in me.

Currently 35° again. Space heater churning. I'll be damned before I run HVAC. March is supposed to be a free month. Two days ago it was 87°. Two days hence it will be 86° and 93° on Saturday. At least the all-night 50 mph winds and rain deluges are gone.

In Southern Tier NY - chicken farm In MT - beet farm Then I hit the big time In Baltimore - D.C., Hershey factory, Independence Hall, Harper's Ferry, Fort McHenry, too many to name.

wwd.com/eye/people/g... My favs Kirsten Dunst (usually she's a least fav) Miyako Bellizzi Marsai Martin (minus that awful necklace) Ji-young Yoo Rei-Ami (still photos don't do it justice. See tiktok) Susan Yeagley (and I don't even like pink&red)

A quiet Sunday until 2 naybors drag bins (2 each) to the curb at 7:30am over sloping, uneven stone paths through backyards, boom-boom-boom, through the gates, bang-bang-bang, through the front yards, boom-boom-boom. Pickup is Monday, fools! Read the CCRS! Bins after dark! Don't block mailboxes!

Like to never get off Solid. Loitered at Nice. Rankings line indicates 86-87 more points. Whee. But I like the rarebies, so far. #nytspellingbee #nytsb #hivemind

The PG is a PG. The PG is itself. The PG is self-referential. #nytspellingbee #hivemind

Dallas experienced a record-setting 16 days in Feb of at least 80° only two weeks after temps fell to 12° and iced over the metroplex for a week. I'm terrified of July, August, September... www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/nationa...

After one of El Paso’s only pediatric endocrinologists was accused of illegally providing gender-transitioning treatments to kids, his patients who aren’t transgender lost care.

Connections Puzzle #1001 🟦🟦🟦🟦these were my leftovers, so assumed purple 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪these were easy 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 96/99 Uniqueness 1 in 495

No bottom

It's nice to think so, but I think Noem's experience only serves as a warning to never back down, never tell the truth, and never ever implicate trump.