One of those typical weekends, some biking, some tennis, some serendipity (running into Chuck down by the lake while he was recovering from Carolina's epic second half collapse against Baylor), a party (Whitey's 56th with a fine Dead cover band - words I thought I'd never issue from my keyboard), some drama (Natalie's COVID diagnosis, Graham struggling to process rejection from top tier schools -- in this case Williams and Swarthmore) and a couple of Zoom calls with college and family around the globe.
All of this against the continued backdrop of war in Ukraine and the sadness that Russia -- a place to which I dedicated a big chunk of my life -- is going down the tubes.
Speaking of Russia and tubes, one issue I haven't seen pondered much is the implications for global warming of the economic embargo on Russia's energy infrastructure. They have a lot of natural gas being piped through a network of largely above ground pipes. It's a big country with a poor history of rational asset allocation. A lot of the pipes are old and leaky. There's a huge risk that they degenerate and spew a lot of shit into the atmosphere because Russia is going downhill and they could give a flying fuck about anyone else right now.
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