Charlie

Thank goodness I had nothing on my schedule today, because I watched both men's semi-finals--nearly 8 hrs combined--and they were incredibly good. I was sorry to see 19 year old Carlos Alcaraz lose to Zverev, but the match between Nadal and Djokovic was sensational. Nadal, despite his declarations about his physical health being precarious, played as well as I have ever seen him play. and Djokovic was brilliant until he petered out in the final tie-break. If Nadal can keep it up through two more matches, I predict he will win his 14th title at Roland Garros.

No, I cannot give you details about her problems with the insurance company.

Some of my longtime platonic friends have been guys that I had sex with once when we first met, and never again. What started as sexual attraction quickly morphed simply into pleasure in one another's company.

That reminds me of my parents and the parents of my freshman dorm roommate in college. They met only once, on moving-in day, but they continued to exchange letters and Xmas cards for years, long after I had lost touch with that roommate.

I strongly resemble my father. My mother developed macular degeneration in old age, and by her late 90s she was close to being blind. A few times when I entered her room in the nursing home, she confused me with my father and called me by his name. My mother had a photo of my father in his early 20s hanging next to her bed in the nursing home. One of the nurses commented to me once, "You were a very handsome young man" (I was in my 60s by then). I accepted the compliment rather than point out that the photo had obviously been taken at least 70 years earlier.

I just returned from a trip from Palm Springs to Austin. Driving east, the gas was cheaper at every stop, as low as $4.09 for premium in Texas. Coming back, even though I didn't need it yet, I stopped and filled the tank in Yuma, last stop before California prices.

I had just moved into my first city apartment. I went out to find a store, in midday. On the street, I passed an attractive young man, we glanced at one another, smiled, and said hello. We stopped and chatted for a few minutes, and I mentioned that I had a new bed and needed to break it in. A half hour later we were in it. We ended up living together for four years.

Robert Morrison's The Regency Years, about the years in the early 19th century when the future King George IV was ruling as Regent in place of his insane father George III. He divides the book into topics, and one of the longest chapters is Ch. 3, "Sexual Pastimes, Pleasures and Perversities." There is a lot in it about homosexuality, including male brothels, in Merrie Olde England.

I'm sure your interest in Marton is entirely charitable.

My father started driving in 1924; he got his first car with automatic transmission in 1958. I don't remember him having any difficulty adjusting to it. After all, he had already adjusted to not using a hand crank to start the car. I do remember him having a hard time adjusting to having a gear shift on the steering column instead of the floor, in our 1947 Pontiac.

I have been out of the sporting news loop for a couple of weeks. Has there been any talk of individual players boycotting Wimbledon on principle, especially since no ranking points will be on the line for them? What would really affect the AELTC financially is an absence of notable players to draw spectators to the event. Have any commercial sponsors pulled out?

I remember listening to my mother talking with a neighbor about sending a CARE package to refugee children in Europe. (The war in Ukraine resurrected that memory for me.)

I know you didn't say she was the first; I was only pointing out that despite there having been other women before her, in 1970 she was still the sole woman in the Senate.

She was the only woman in the Senate at that time, but she was not the first.

I keep copies of all those things in a safe deposit box, but I also keep copies of all of them in a file cabinet at home. I send copies of most things to my brother-in-law, who holds the secondary power of attorney, but not my will (I don't want family to know exactly what's in it); my lawyer also has a copy of the will. With all these copies available elsewhere, I don't see any reason to carry all of these things around with me in an emergency bag, which could get lost during an emergency.

I also like the Waterpik Flosser, but mine never seem to last very long before they weaken.

Phone and charger. MediCare and health insurance cards.

34? And he has recently come out after "many hard years of hiding it"?

In other words, the players are more likely to simply criticize but play anyway than the All-England Club members are to change their position on the Russian and Belorussian players.

I have used them all at one time or another. For awhile, Allegra seemed the best, but then it seemed to become less effective. Then I went through a similar experience with Zyrtec. Ditto Flonase. Claritin never seemed effective for me. I sometimes use Benadryl at bedtime, so I can breathe while I am asleep.. When I was young, the only thing that worked was Primatene (is that still available?). It worked, but it made me very drowsy. In a bad allergy season like the one I have been going through this year, I sometimes fantasize about moving to the north shore of Alaska, the only place in the US where there is almost nothing growing that I am allergic to.

What if the ATP were to boycott Wimbledon, as they did in 1973? What if prominent players refused as individuals to play? None of the possibilities are pretty if Wimbledon refuses to back down.

I get messages every day saying my McAfee account has expired today, even though I no longer have one, and I now have "x-number of infections in my computer!". Why do they bother?

Today in Philadelphia.

Novak will have much to think about. I'm sure he disagrees with Wimbledon's stand, but he also is the reigning Wimbledon champion, and those points from last year have a lot to do with his own current ranking.

Like @Beancounter, I was confused by the title. When I was 17, I came with no warning in my pants while chatting with a very hot model, just after watching a gay photographer friend of mine doing a shoot of him for Physique Pictorial. As for land speed, the top was probably 100mph in my Mercedes E320 on an empty stretch of interstate in west Texas. It was my first driving trip to the Southwest, and I wasn't paying attention until I glanced down at the speedometer.