July 28, 2025

News from Scotland: Trump creates a trade crisis, then gets credit for partially resolving it. That America should always have the better deal is not what our forefathers fought for. 

D, the editor of Wikipedia, wants to edit my page and improve it by taking away tags, etc. I say yes, and miraculously manage not to take a look. The last time I looked at the page was 2019 or so, after disgruntled student Z B-S libelously vandalized it. Such laborious malice is hard for me to comprehend.

Watched Olivier’s Henry V. Wonderful!

Thunderstorms each evening. They don’t cool things down much, but they allow my garden to get through the heat wave. You can hear the thirsty roots sucking. The wet lasts until morning, evaporates in the first hour of brutal sun.