You can find people like that on Hellotalk (although that seems to become a bit of a pickup place lately) or there’s a website called conversationexchange.com. Alternately, you can ask chatgpt to have a conversation with you and set how difficult you want the language.

Interesting. Miami is indigenous. It may be a good choice as it’s already a place name and possibly less objectionable to the US Americans.

That is an indigenous word.

Fine. You can party on dudes if you want.

I think you need a hyphen between “party” and “on.”

The statement by the Canadian Prime Minister said they were making good progress until, at the last moment, the U.S. introduced some conditions that were “unfair, uneconomical and called into question the reliability of any deal.”

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations

I may not like everything he does but still feel like Carney’s one of the best prime ministers we’ve had.

Thunderstruck by Walk Off the Earth. Female vocalist, a wild twist on instuments that just seems to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RnGkIxhFGU

I’m off to help out at the local track and field meet.

Is it weird that Canada is in and UK isn’t?

Terry Fox. One of humanity’s gems.

Just got back from our camp where I’m doing renovations. It’s only accessible by boat so all supplies have to be loaded in the trailer, brought to the boat, loaded in the boat, brought to the camp, then unloaded onto the dock. Makes for slow going, but the peace and beauty out there make up for it. Today, I’m going to church, picking up groceries for the week, then heading back to camp.

Like every stage in life, it has its pros and cons.

I am an old person.

It’s the internet. What do you think?

Just finished three days in the bush chopping firewood for next year. Today, I’m heading to my parents for the Mother’s Day weekend.

We play speed Uno. If you have the identical card as the card that’s played, you can lay it down if you get it to the pile before the person whose turn it is lays down theirs. Play then continues from you.

In the U.S., the letter Z is pronounced zee. The rest of the English-speaking world pronounces it zed. Thus the difference.

Many companies like websites, tv, radio, etc. depend on the revenues from advertisers to pay their workers and expenses. If they didn’t have that, everything would likely turn to susbscription or a regular pleading for money so they could continue.

Yes. I have a strong opinion on the subject and have shared it extensively among my close friends.