Snow tomorrow, whoopee. A touch more seasonable than the 20C of last week and I wasn't going anywhere anyway. Hope it's not much because I certainly can't shovel it. The recycle didn't make it out yesterday either, and it was my four week accumulation. But I ordered in yesterday evening, two full items from a Vietnamese place,  that will provide six meals the way I eat now.

Have been reading A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, popular history of the bloodthirsty Romans, and also rereading Marcus Corvinus who isn't as horrible as the horrible people in A Fatal Thing. Possibly the horrors of the emperors are filtered through biased sources, but it was unarguably a slave state which cannot fail of being horrible. Corvinus and his bought help notwithstanding. It's not stated outright but he has far more slaves than the ones that get named-- nameless skivvies and lots of them‐ whose existence he doesn't register at all.