Took an evening off from the Internet

The conversion of my fireplace back to a wood burner was completed Saturday. Saturday night was spent giving it a test.

While enjoying the fire, I tuned in the Grand Ole Opry on WSM in Nashville using a vintage transistor radio. Yes, I could have had a better signal on the Internet, but I enjoyed listening the way we did prior to the digital age - even with occasional signal fade.

As the fire burned on, I switched off the radio and picked up a book. Valley Forge is a history based novel by Newt Gingrich and William Fortschen. I got about a third-way through before the fire died around  midnight.

If you think Congress is dysfunctional now, Gingrich uses the book to make the case it was even more so in 1777-78.