The Red Ring (Blood & Magic, book 2) by Jen Frankel

The Red Ring (Blood & Magic, book 2) by Jen Frankel

What I learned

People care passionately about butter in mashed potatoes.

Ontario makes it illegal to protest outside and near abortion clinics

The legislature passed a bill Wednesday to create zones around the eight clinics in the province of between 50 and 150 metres in which anti-abortion protests, advising a person not to get an abortion, and intimidation or interfering with a woman's ability to access the services will be banned.

I once wanted to design software

that would track popularity of different types of fiddles. No market. People object to graphic violins.

From the way the SUV came to a halt

Half into the crosswalk, I understand why part of the front grill was already caved in.

It's never aliens

Astronomers from the Minor Planet Center sent out an announcement today, hoping for astronomers to do followup observations on the comet C/2017 U1 PANSTARRS. That’s because this strange comet seems to be on a trajectory that originated outside our Solar System. Not just from the Oort Cloud, but from another star.