Cav's Place

This is probably awfully inappropriate, but the current situation made me think of looking for some bands from Ukraine, and more specifically from Kyiv and Kharkiv, and adding another post in this series with them. Even picking the bands was rushed, having to do with what I happened to click on and what I didn’t […]

All I can really say at this moment is what’s in the title. It was clear that this was coming after the end of the Olympics, yet somehow many still seemed surprised, disbelieving… The bottom line is that Putin doesn’t stop unless he’s stopped, and the West, NATO, the EU, nobody did anything relevant to […]

In a way, it can be said that this week’s run was the first in the series meant to prepare me for the half marathon, but that’s just because I’d normally avoid another longer run before the first that has to be of 16 km. Then again, even that first 16 km run in the […]

It’s not just that they don’t respect the Olympic Truce, but Russia seems to make a point of violating it specifically, and just when either they or China, their key allies, are the hosts. I mean, the war with Georgia was during the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, the annexation of Crimea, and the start […]

To start with the early hours of January 17, I started eating dinner at 3:40 AM, after having lunch in the evening. Then, after having lunch in the afternoon, I left at 7:10 PM, first checking the Mega Image on the way to Penny and finding the zacusca I wanted there, then getting the frozen […]