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Many of the cities on this list are in war-torn areas. Depressing.

http://matadornetwork.com/trips/10-oldest-cities-world/

OK here's the story: My dad had a subscription to US News & World Report. The magazine switched to an all digital format and dad had his subscription switched to Esquire magazine. Dad passed away 8 years ago and I am still receiving issues of Esquire. I don't read the magazine. So, I sent an email to that effect to their customer service department. In one of the automated replies, it appears that the subscription is paid for another 155 issues lasting until May 2026.

I own a copy of the Artist's Choice CD curated by Sarah McLachlan. I like all the songs to varying degrees (it's the first place I ever heard Willie Nelson's wonderful version of "Unchained Melody", which in turn led me to his "Stardust" album; thanks, Sarah) except for Kate & Anna McGarrigle's "I Eat Dinner", which sounds to me like a sketch-comedy parody of folk music ("I eat din-ner/With mashed po-ta-toes") OTOH, maybe the song's theme of solitude and loneliness hits too close to home and I laugh at it as a defense mechanism.

The dogs prefer sleeping in the garage to sleeping in the dining room.

Heavy metal may or may not have been invented in the year 1970.

I slept beside the dogs last night.

Let's hear it for my new niece: a genuine Leap Day Baby! w00t!!

I poked my eye. Ugh.

Alan Grant's hospitality and support for a then-unknown writer named Mark Millar was rudely repaid by snarky comments about Grant being out of touch with the streets by living in a castle.

I bought a new hoodie today.

White sometime-rapper Anthony Kiedis allegedly loathes fellow white sometime-rapper Mike Patton.

I've been thinking about maybe looking for a job in D.C. and taking a trip in either May or September to see about interviewing places. I'm kind of on the fence, though, because who the next president of the U.S. is may affect that decision...

I've been looking into (future) jobs in D.C. too. A lot of healthcare analytics and consulting jobs are there.

There are now six UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Philippines.

I've seen college students climb the bookshelves like animals after being told the book they need is not available.

"B-O-O-K" Is that some new app or something?

LOL

Well, I didn't say I saw it recently.

Random: Years ago, Peter David's daughter Shana went to the Long Island Girls Drama Camp with a then-unknown Natalie Portman, who apparently was already acting like a star even though she wasn't one yet, much to Shana's chagrin.

I had meatballs with dijon mustard and cheddar.

I applied for a summer part-time job today.

I have eaten way too many Girl Scout cookies today!

I swam yesterday and I plan to swim later.

Dolphins and whales are not fish, they're mammals.

The gigantopithecus was the largest ape to ever live. It looked kind of like a giant orangutan.

Belize is the only Central American country to be English speaking, not Spanish speaking

Bonobo monkeys solve conflicts through copulation.