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I’m told that some baseball teams get to play in October. True?

While you were busy summering, I was doing things, too. Lots of things.

List ahead.

12 Things I Did While You Were Doing Other Things

1) I did this weird thing that made my guitar string unravel.

2) I read Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” which started great and then became a slog. I’m sure you’ve been to dinner parties like that. (I’ve been to no dinner parties.)

well we had 162 good pages together

3) I cleaned six things off my desk. For the nosy amongst you – Two yoga books I had piled on the table and then couldn’t find last week because they’d been covered in papers. One post-it note carefully placed next to my computer with nothing on it. Nothing. One cryptic piece of notepaper with “4 6 10” written on it along with some guitar chords that may have meant something. An empty wrapper from a Japanese Kit Kat. A notice that they’re disconnecting our landline.

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On November 12, 2025, the U.S. Mint made its very last penny.

(I so wanted to title this post “Stop Making Cents” but even I have my pun limits. Associated Press, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and others do not.)

Penny for your thoughts.

How many thoughts will I ever have now if there are no more pennies to pay for them?

Which brings me to …

I bet you have a friend who only shows up when things are getting rough. They need your shoulder to lean on, your compassionate ear, your thoughtful, “It’s ok, things are going to be ok,” half-truth.

It’s me. Hi.

I seem to write more when baseball has gone sour. When “stinky” only scratches the surface of how maddeningly awful the Baltimore Orioles have been playing.

How awful? Let Mookie Wilson-Betts explain: