It hardly felt like a Thursday...

The day went well.

I managed to complete everything on the plate and sent it back before my t'ai chi class.

Earlier in the day, Galina and I visited our tenants on the other side of I-45 to make sure the mailbox out on the street was up to the housing association's snuff (we had received a certified letter telling us it wasn't and warning us that we had 30 days to Do Something About It™ before Steps Would Be Taken™).

* * *It occurred to me recently that I had never really gotten around to reading Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. I had started to several times before, but never managed to get caught up in the story, and usually abandoned the effort after a dozen pages or so. A few days ago I opened the book yet again to the first page—this, after reading a comment somewhere to the effect that the focus of the book is not really the firemen who set books alight—and as it turns out, it's actually a little scary how, in some major respects, Bradbury seems to be talking about the present day.

I'm a little past the halfway point, at any rate, and care about what happens next.

* * *This evening's episode of Elementary was excellently done. The series has been on an upward course since its inception, and the writing just keeps getting better and better, spilling over beyond formulaic whodunit stories.

Which reminds me... I wonder when the next installments of the BBC's series devoted to Holmes and Watson will be aired.

* * *Apropos of which, apparently, the three major political parties in the UK have all but decided to regulate the press in much the same way that the airwaves are regulated by the BBC. That's probably good news, financially, for legacy British print media, as a regulated press need only please the regulators to stay in business, and need not concern itself at all with that sentimental "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable" jazz unless so directed (with appropriate specification of the afflicted and the comfortable) by The Powers That Be.

The regulated press will, I would expect, maintain that nothing has changed as far as their news coverage is concerned. What's disappointing is that they're probably right.

Cheers...