Ahhh, jet lag. My old friend. More frequent trips between KY and CA lately, driven by a combination of schedule constraints. Not ideal, but I can deal with it for a few months. Whole lotta travel coming up soon – a couple of CA-KY round trips, a two-week trip to Scotland and Ireland, a short trip to LA to see Rush…all in the next 45 days. I hope to have fewer flights in the second half of 2026.

This is…concerning. Weird. Evidence of a stealth attack on US science? At this point I’m ready to believe most anything.

It’s not real high on the list of atrocities committed by Donny Convict this term, but the new push to put Trump’s ugly picture on US passports is particularly irritating. There’s no fucking way I’m going to use a passport with that mug shot, so I’m looking for ways to opt out of whatever ridiculous plan they have in mind.

In addition to jet lag, getting back to Socal always includes a bunch of repairs in waiting. This time it’s a non-working fridge, a dying palm tree that needs an arborist, ants to get under control in the kitchen, blacktop repair (again), following up on taxes and the accountant, plus a few other little things. The fridge is the big one – do we repair it or replace it? Either way it has already required moving it from its tight hallway cubby (this is a second fridge, because we need two fridges for a two-person home <insert sarcasm font here>), cleaning the crud underneath it, removing the hallway door to get access to the fridge, and so on. Nothing ever easy. I 1000% understand why older folks downsize their homes and lives. I’m ready to do that.

One of my syndicate horses is closely related to a horse running in The KY Oaks tomorrow (Counting Stars), so I’ve become an online Twinspires bettor. We’ll see if the syndicate connection and pedigree is worth anything. I *did* enjoy a pre-Derby visit to Churchill this past Tuesday. It had all the pageantry, color and people dressed up – just not as crazy, crowded and expensive as Derby day. I’ll do that again next year.