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Monthly Archive February, 2025

After Three Years, It Is, Indeed, Time for the Brown Pants…

In my post marking 1000 days since the start of the current stage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I was quoting an old joke from here about a great leader asking first for his red cape before a difficult battle, so the troops won’t see when he’ll get wounded, and then for his brown pants […]

Should Still Have Three Teams in the EHF Women’s Champions’ League, Right?

Romania had three teams in this season’s EHF Women’s Champions’ League but, seeing as this is not a matter of coefficients or even qualifying rounds, at the moment it’s still pretty much anyone’s guess whether this will continue to be the case next season. If CSM Bucharest, who had nothing to play for anymore, remaining […]

Catching Up Before the First Longer Run since Bucharest Marathon 2024

Ever more ridiculously, the second part of the post about last year’s marathon remains far from complete, though some two weeks ago I at least managed to add something to it. But this week’s run marked the theoretical start of the preparations for this year’s half marathon and next week’s 16 km run will mark […]

Once Again, Swiss Voters Prove That "The People" Will Keep Making the Wrong Choice

Of course, “The People” from across the pond had already provided even more ample evidence of it, pretty much ensuring that, as the recent developments and statements, which I’m not going to comment on in what’s just a rushed post, make even more abundantly clear, there’s no hope left for any of us. But a […]

Separate Internet Connection, Uptime Record and January’s Remaining Runs

While this post otherwise covers the remaining days from January when I ran, I’ll start by mentioning that, in the early hours of Wednesday, after noticing that no views had been recorded the previous day, I finally got around to removing the Google Analytics code, since I hadn’t been checking that at all in a […]