Big fresh porcini at the market this morning. Made steinpilze mit speck. Perfect lunch

Dinner with my mother

easy work with bar keepers friend

I've been here twice. My pictures, same stew 2 years apart

My spreadsheet autism over the past decade is paying off now that I have AI slaves to run analyses

It was just okay, he's nothing like Polybius the goat greek roman historian reading Suetonius now. The plan is Suetonius vol I, Syme's Roman Revolution, Tacitus' Annals, Suetonius vol II to cover Domitian, and then finally on to Gibbon

moving on to Appian now

Finished the last volume of Mommsen today. I think i started volume 1 a year ago. Very sober look at the Roman republic, its kind of no wonder that Chamberlain had no idealism about Rome, or anyone else who comes away from Mommsen for that matter