Football is already over for me, and NPR dead to me without the likes of the old guard like Carrier and Joe Frank. I’ll catch the sometimes-good Ira Glass when I’m out, and the WX band, and 1610 AM, but at home there is a gap in my background noise and I’ve been filling it with living vicarious lives I will never be able to afford and probably never could, given where I came from and the choices I made.
I would break my rule and get on a plane to see the Magdalenian cave art, but I don’t care about it like I used to–the art is fulfilling to behold, but the spirit behind it is the main thing, and I work on that a lot.
As for diverting escapes, there are, you know, adult-only clubs out there, and some of them are in easy driving range. So I looked them over.
We visit a Luxury Swingers club in Las Vegas! Sea Mountain
Temptation and Desire Resort 2025 | Behind the scenes of what it’s really like
From what I’ve seen so far, these resorts are rather shockingly vanilla, at least if you consider basic swinging/hotwifery and things like ‘nudism’ to be (by default) vanilla scenes, and I sure do. Maybe there are places I would find more satisfyingly spicy, but so far I haven’t put any effort into finding them.
Elsewise:
Adventure Elliot … really great non-touristy travel, and to place that can often be driven-to … I posted one of his previously.
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He’s sponsored off and on by makers to very simple and cheap drones: