Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Zin Zhang made a very brief "return" for a few minutes near the end of Fireworks of My Heart--
Burn scar on his right cheek was healed and the same color as the rest of his face.
His friend wanted to share the moment of the Award they received on Zoom.
Thought you would want to know--my post about his cameo role got the most blog hits--66.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
This one looks good, the used book price is reasonable--and I like the illustrations--
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Voyages-Zheng-He/dp/1643797484
For all used books you buy, wipe down all 6 sides with paper kitchen towels wetted with hand sanitiser.
Do this also for your credit cards and maybe bank cards each time you use them.
Memoirs of Admiral Zheng He--
https://www.amazon.com/Voyages-Dragon-Fleet-Unfiltered-Histories/dp/B0F3TPBLB7
Still a bit expensive,but maybe I should buy it.
I don't borrow library books,long lines and I can't keep them.
I don't by much clothes and I don't take long trips now.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
I never do high risk things, never follow the crowd, never (try not to) follow the advice of jealous people--
fortunately all the women who wanted to get in my husband's pants are all gone--
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
The earliest died around 1965, the latest about 2016.
By now their bodies are dust.
So so jealous.
People was just ships passing in the night.
I'm more jolted by Robert Mueller dying than any of the above 5.
One had the same name as my son's St.Bernard/Collie mix doggie.
Two was a mee yat pain,mee yat chauk--menopausal thin driedup woman:)
Three and four and five were his brothers'wives.
What a toxic hive.
Therefore in my fiction I always invent heroes like Yang Yang playing Song Yan in Fireworks of My Heart.
Right, sorry, not "Fireflies of my Heart," :)
who never even ever think of cheating on their wives.
And if they do they should be dumped pronto pronto
Cut your losses early.
kmk.
3-21-2026
Photo--broken heart coconut blanc mange--KM Kaung
CDs, High Yield Savings and Money Market accounts comparison--
Of course look at the interest rate and other things, such as penalties for early withdrawal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/10000-cd-high-yield-savings-money-market-account-earn-most-interest-2026/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Also watch what the Fed does and if accts are FDIC insured.
How risk averse or not are you?
I myself would rather be safe than sorry.
Denmark and Greenland--from NYT.
Denmark Was Ready to Blow Up Airfields to Stop a U.S. Invasion of Greenland
The Danes brought blood supplies, explosives and live ammunition to Greenland as part of contingency plans in case President Trump acted on his threats to seize the island.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/world/europe/denmark-blow-up-greenland-runways-us-invasion.html
Down down Dow--market indicators--
19 hours ago
By Margaret Attridge
Dow Jones
-0.96%
45,577.47
S&P 500
-1.51%
6,506.48
Nasdaq
-2.01%
21,647.61
Russell
-2.26% 2,438.45 23 hours ago Disclaimer More from Google Finance
Friday, March 20, 2026
Partial closure--Fireworks series--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQHrsEYo34
Realistic post-earthquake setting, great lighting,photography, tonal "Chinese" sound track,sounds a bit like Tang Dun, Symphony 97,
color palette, details (like her bob hairstyle in high school) lighter etc
Characeter development--just perfect--even secondary and tertiary characters.
Song Yan
Dr. Xu
Pi Pi
Jan Yiang
The one who had to retire --earlier
Old army buddy.
Each character gets a highlight as in Tale of Two Cities or a jazz concert.
Wish to give it 5 out of 5 stars.
Kyi May Kaung
3-19-2026.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Salman Rushdie--Imaginary Homelands--esp. worth re-reading--Inside the Whale, Attenborough's Gandhi etc.
Also other Rushdie publications in different languages, Rushdie related commentaries, Knife etc.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=salman+rushdie+imaginary+homelands&adgrpid=1343603775626028&hvadid=83975474890936&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=51771&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83975585501409%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=10055_13485428&mcid=4c6944b7d8fd303b861b42127318d041&msclkid=a383dbbc5df01810316bb200dadd018e&tag=mh0b-20&ref=pd_sl_8fbw7d45og_e
I use Amazon and Google to find and buy books.
I don't have Amazon or Google stock.
My books on Amazon make cents.
Kaung
3-19-2026
So brilliant--like a meteor--my absolute favorite, Fiber Spider--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZoiMct2Yw&t=32s
he hasn't done it yet and neither have I,but youcan adapt this as a longyi/sarong wrap by measuring 3/4 of your existing longi width without the fold.
You should stick to Virus pattern at either the L or R edge of your longyi--or sarong, depending on how you wrap your sarong--
generally both sides of this pattern are about the same but there is always the better side.
OR--along the bottom edge of your wrap sarong.
Both will be too busy.
Make a scarf/scarves or saron depending on which you will use more.
Sarong version with matching top can be for a special occasion, like a wedding dress for say 1 second marriage like Jackie.
I suggest pale colors or pale to medium colors to wear over dark clothing--(after the wedding, or the divorce)
Not too bulky yarn.
Kyi May Kaung.
3-19-2026
OMG I don't like her ugly hands and awful nails--but this is an easy scarf pattern--adaptable many ways.
You can find rectangular scarves like this on Olga Poltava--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SAlSz1Uhpo&list=PLzNyjvEWDKLTvvrQO49Mu1ohXB-t5JWIE&index=46
From Gilbert Murray (the translator's) forward to Oedipus at Colonus--very interesting, as they say--
Greek tradition tells us that the play was produced by the poet's grandson, Sophocles the younger, four [Pg 6] years after the author's death at the age of ninety. This is confirmed by the metrical and linguistic tests, which clearly prove the Colonêüs to be among the last of the poet's writings; indeed it would almost seem that some parts of the play required a fourth actor, unless we escape that startling conclusion by the somewhat evasive hypothesis of a supernumerary persona muta who was not always entirely mute.[2] The play certainly leaves the impression of coming from one who has largely left the turmoil of life behind him and looks back upon it with deepened understanding and mature mastery of language and poetry.
Some modern readers have seen signs of old age in a certain lengthiness and lack of concentration in the drama. It is, as Aristotle would say, "episodic," and each episode involves some dissipation of interest. The ancient critics, however, seem to have singled out the "oeconomia"—the construction or management—of the play for particular admiration. Aristophanes of Byzantium considered that in this respect it had no equal. He might have pointed out that it contains many characters, none of them mere vessels of rhetoric but each with his own ethos and his own purposes and a good reason for entering when he does. And it is true that each episode serves its purpose in showing the gradual sanctification or "heroization" of Oedipus. A hero was by no means necessarily a lovable character; he had to be firstly, uncanny and different from common men, and secondly formidable, with powers to injure[Pg 7] or to bless, connected always with a taboo grave. So far he is like a mediaeval saint; but he need not be saintly in character. Aegisthus and Salmoneus, famous for their sins, were "heroes." An extreme case is that of the athlete Cleomêdês, who, after killing his opponent, went mad and destroyed a school with sixty children in it; naturally people were afraid of such a being and felt it desirable to "appease" his tomb. The terrific cursing of Polynices by his father, which was heart-breaking to Antigone, seems to us a very strange prelude to the scene of something like sanctification which immediately follows, but of course heroization is not the same thing as sanctification. The curse showed how truly formidable the inmate of that mysterious tomb was to be; and we must always remember that in an insecure and unpoliced society, like those of antiquity in general, the punishment of the wicked was a keenly felt social necessity. Was the wrong-doer to go scot-free, and the cry of the "wronged ones in the darkness" to be left unheard? A true hero must curse as well as bless.
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/murraysophocles-oedipusatcolonus/murraysophocles-oedipusatcolonus-00-h.html
Sophocles--from wiki--
Sophocles (/ˈsɒfəkliːz/;[1] Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, pronounced [so.pʰo.klɛ̂ːs], Sophoklễs; c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)[2] was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays,[3] but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.[4] For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes beaten by Sophocles; Euripides won four.[5]
Starred Post--Corner to Corner wrap around shawl--by Fiber Spider--ingenious design.
The corner to corner design can be perhaps replicated in more complex units --as in Expressions Fber Arts which does not show as thoroughly as Fiber Spider.
Never the mind, :) we shall work it out, as Fiber Spider might say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIH38eE2qdU&list=PLzNyjvEWDKLTvvrQO49Mu1ohXB-t5JWIE&index=70
"Turn your work" here means twist or flip your work.
This design is denser but you have to flip or twist at beginning of each row.
Quite metaphorical,flip at beginning of each row.
Also advisable to use same size yarn he does, as design is more dense, less lacey, but then it is warmer and would be too dense and a yarn hog if made in size 4 worsted weight.
3-19-2026.
Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data of Americans from 3rd party brokers.
Dems trying to close loophole.
Christopher Wray, former director, said under oath that FBI was not buying data at the time,but had done so in past.
Wray was fired because he said "shrapnel may have hit (Trump's) ear" at Hearing. T. was angry. "I said I was hit. He said "it might have been shrapnel'"
(Summer 2024 assassination attempt) Photos showed T's ear and cheek not torn, only blood colored liquid flowing across his cheek--some have said it was faked.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/kash-patel-fbi-location-data?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Trump has had a long time grudge against Comey. Comey said T. demanded his loyalty--see book A Different Kind of Loyalty.
T. has been out to get Comey since 1.0.
T. entertained Lavrov and Kislyak in Oval day after Comey fired--Comey was on a trip and only learned of it from TV screen in real time while he was giving a speech in LA.
American media learned of it only from Russian media--not from then WH --
Comey was denied use of FBI jet to get home.
--
3-19-2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to go to port Crete for repairs due to fire damage.
Most recently deployed to Strait of Hormuz and Venezuela.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-carrier-ford-deployed-war-with-iran-go-port-temporarily-after-fire-2026-03-17/
Naked dresses-the only one I like is the "painted dress."
https://www.aol.com/articles/cara-delevingnes-naked-dress-looks-155807527.html
Think about time to go back to dresses that cover up more or look like armor.
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