"I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking." - Katherine Cerbrian

This is good.

Rain, lightning, and thunder! The last two are unusual here. We had thunderstorms in Michigan all the time but this close to the ocean the Pacific's moderating effect on the weather makes BOOM a rare thing.

The AZ Cardinals were the tenth team in the first round of the NFL draft and chose a quarterback out of UCLA. Josh Rosen has an impressive college record and no shortage of self-confidence.
"The first nine picks were all mistakes."

In English the word team is singular but it takes plural verbs. "The AZ Cardinals were..."
In England they view a team name as singular like we do (even if it ends in an S) but use singular verbs. So it would be "The AZ Cardinals was...."
It makes more sense grammatically but sure sounds weird.
Do you "go to hospital" or go to the hospital"? Graduate H.S. or graduate from H.S.?

"The United States and England are two nations divided by a common language."

We're watching the Masterpiece series Wolf Hall which is the story ofKing Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Oliver Cromwell, Cardinal Woolsey, and a few other characters from that period of British history. I don't know a lot about that era and we're enjoying the series so this morning I did some reading on Anne Boleyn.
OK, it was the Wikipedia article, but it was a long one.

Based on what I read this series isn't sticking real close to the historical data. It focuses on Oliver Cromwell and his relationships with those other characters. Anne comes across as a conniving scheming woman intent on gaining power, Henry VIII is a bit bland, and Cardinal Woolsey is a gentle old man. In reality things were very different. From what I've read, including the article on Cromwell, he was the schemer and Anne was really fairly principled and devoted to Henry. Woolsey was, like most of the Catholic hierarchy of the time, corrupt and greedy.

It reminds me of the movie Amadeus. It presents Antonio Salieri as intent on destroying Mozart and suggests he may have had a hand in Mozart's death. There's no historical basis for even thinking Salieri harbored ill will toward Mozart.

It was still a very good movie and Wolf Hall is still a very good series. Besides, it motivated me to go learn things I wouldn't have otherwise thought to look up.

And while we're on the subject of British royalty, whaddaya think about Louis as the name for the newest prince? Fine enough in my opinion, but it sounds French, especially when pronounced LOOwee. I would have preferred Phillip after his great grandfather who seems like a cool guy. You have to be pretty cool to be married to the Queen of England and still pull off dignified independence. And he's got a great sense of self-deprecating humor.
Alas, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge didn't ask me. Oh well.

Time to go feed the goats and then feed ME. I'm hungry.