Like he's one of the family

This was a week in my humor blog in which I wrote about Charles In Charge for some reason. More than you might expect, even given that. If you somehow did not seek that out in your RSS reader already, then please consider the past week's writing. Also: new Popeye content! Enjoy!

• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 18
• Some Other State Boards That I'm Not On
• Statistics Saturday: Some Movie Sequels II: Some Movier Sequels
• Joe Giella has died
• In Which I've Had Enough Time in the _Charles in Charge_ Vortex
• I Will Get to the Story Comics Soon, I Promise
• What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? Is it enough to make a regular feature of this? December 2022 - March 2023
• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 19

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Only one picture today, because the next big thing on my photo roll is something I want to start writing about tomorrow and it needs more context than usual before rolling into it. So, here, somehow, the only thing I photographed at the Zen Tournament I wrote about yesterday:

Trophies! The ones on the left and right are the ones we ended up taking back home. In the center is one intended for MAG, who won last year but got a trophy noticeably shorter than the usual. Our trophy shop, getting wind of JAB's gripe that the trophy he shared with MAG was small, remade it and we brought that along in case we happened to see MAG. Turns out, we did see him, but this Tuesday, when I didn't bring the replacement trophy because we hadn't seen MAG all last season. So, you know, what's a plan for if not to have fate laugh at it?

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Trivia: Michael Faraday installed an experimental (yet operational) electrical lamp in the lighthouse at South Foreland, near Dover, in 1858. It used an magneto-electric generator driven by steam engine to provide power to a carbon-arc lamp. Source: Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon.

Currently Reading: Gemini 4: An Astronaut Steps Into The Void, David J Shayler.