Got a bit derailed.

I have this habit of reading (or re-reading) multiple books at a time. It's manageable, but it does tend to mash my ADHD "SQUIRREL!" button.

So I picked up Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and here I am. I will still have the other review up. But it may be preceded by a review of Mr. Blair's account of his service with the POUM militia during the Spanish Civil War, the event upon which his intellectual and political worldview pivoted. 

And did you know that Orwell and his wife Eileen adopted a son? Here are the reminiscences of Richard Horatio Blair, who recalls a loving and attentive father, even as that father was clacking away at his masterpiece while dying of tuberculosis.

In any event, that's the story. 

In the meantime, you might want to put aside some of your stimulus money for rocketing gasoline prices this summer.

But remember that energy and food prices aren't "core inflation," so it'll be fine.