The one game I've found so far that I enjoy is What the Golf.

I wanted to start a new game so I could revisit gameplay from the beginning.

I knew I should be able to do that by "starting a new slot" (according to my searches) ... but I couldn't figure out how to get to the options page.

I tried searching every combination of phrases I could think of, but I could not find info on how to just bring up the options page.

Finally I gave up and asked ChatGPT - which helpfully told me to try the Escape key.

That worked great.

I've been reading Lost Japan and really enjoying learning about the places the author (Alex Kerr) has lived and all the ways he's experienced his life in Japan.

I especially enjoyed reading about his home on the grounds of Tenmangu Shrine ... and it occurred to me that I could easily look up the town and the shrine, to see if there were any photos of the place, and the grounds, which sound enchanting.

I love Bill Nighy, and when I came across a headline about Mary Nighy, the last name piqued my interest, so I got to read a really interesting interview about Mary Nighy's career, and her first film as a director.

I enjoyed reading about her childhood, spending time in rehearsal rooms while her mother was acting, and about her own experiences as a mom raising two young daughters.

I've been fiddling with the Music app on my iPhone (actually, I deleted it, because it seemed to be doing weird 2 am battery drains), and so I lost all the music on my phone (sigh), so I started reloading it by adding a couple of old Racer albums - the unreleased Hero Isle by Wonderboy, and Zircus Smashes!

I loved Ted Lasso; I loved every episode I watched when I had an Apple TV subscription a couple of years ago. I was disappointed that Apple seemed unlikely to release it on DVD; I would have loved to buy it.

Reading some old Ask MetaFilter questions about podcasts, I found several recommendations for New Books Network, which is a huge consortium of podcasts featuring author interviews: "Covering 100+ subjects, disciplines, and genres, we publish 70 to 100 episodes every week."

Courtesy of Wikipedia, here are some other folks who were born in 1942, the same year as President Joe Biden:

Here are some of the sites I'm visiting the most this month:

Kwiziq Spanish and Kwiziq French

I don't do a lot of the quizzes (although I could be doing more than I am, I should do that), but I find the grammar explanations and the example sentences really helpful. Some sites have example sentences that seem like things that no one would ever say, or that don't really illustrate the grammar point very well; Kwiziq does a really good job here.

I came across this great comment by dutchrick over at MetaFilter recently:

I really, really enjoyed this book.

I've been focusing on books written by women lately; they seem to satisfy the things I'm looking for in characters and narrative more often than books written by men. But I saw some good reviews of this, and a book about Midwesterners seemed appealing at the moment, so I gave it a try.

I really liked the characters, even the more flawed ones; I especially liked Edith. And there were some plot developments I really didn't see coming that just made me grin when they happened.