I am waiting and waiting while tuning into AP's YouTube feed for President Biden. Meanwhile, for filler, it's high school band music. Lots of it. Loops of peppy stuff. I love trumpets and Aaron Copeland, but hours of it while waiting for Joe to Show is kind of irritating.

ORD-FCO ✈️

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Okay, ⁦jonahbgelbach⁩, you were right.

Scenes from Florence 🇮🇹 Firenze, they call it.

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A sunny ferry boating ⛴️ day, visiting Lerici, Porto Vente, and Cinqueterre towns on the sea 🇮🇹

Agriturismo 🇮🇹

In the evening, hot weather yields to perfect weather 🇮🇹

Never even liked tennis anyway.

AI has gotten good enough to roast us accurately (built on Wordware). twitter.wordware.ai/CAndrewFrank?s…

My favorite Olympic event to watch: 400m dash 🏃‍♂️ Second favorite? Trampoline! youtu.be/fm-UxRxwFVM?si…

"why would you even put the bear in your car?"

I have a college student!

What’s Kamala Harris’s plan for academia using the word “retreat” when we just mean “really long meeting”

U.S. Secretary of the Interior? For his knowledge and experience with bears 🐻

I have to give this man credit. He has endless ways to shock me.

Andrew Jackson might be tricky.

Tim Walz: We can sleep when we’re dead. NYT fact check: We do not sleep after we die.

For my 50th(!) birthday dinner, my wife recreated some of our favorites from Italy. An Aperol spritz and fresh trofie al pesto 🇮🇹