Welcome to Sunday Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I love that Summer is leaving and cooler weather is coming in. As a severe asthmatic Summer is my worst season. As an artist Fall has lot prettier colors to work with. This is Autumn Skies.

So I return in cyberspace, but I'm still far away across the sea. Hope all is going well with the c99 community. This is a poor excuse for the weekly watch, but it's just...

Where is the best news? Here's my favorite youtube sites:

To best understand what is currently occurring in the presidential campaign of The Mad Bomber, it helps to be conversant with the life and times of the medieval Spanish serial killer Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar—most commonly known as El Cid—and also the "Spock's Brain" episode of the true-life documentary series Star Trek.

Rodrigo, he wandered to and fro, there on the Iberian Peninsula, in the latter half of the 11th Century, killing people. Sometimes he killed Moors, sometimes he killed for Moors (those would be Mooslems, in the American language), and sometimes he killed, or killed for, various Spanish Sanchos and Alfonsos. In his final years, he mostly concentrated on killing Berbers. For himself.

Nobody hears much about Berbers these days. This is because when the white people, they drew all the borders, all over the globe, they decided there didn't need to be any Berberland. Just as peoples like, say, the Karen, and the Kurds, the white people, they decided they didn't need any nations, either.

Anyway. Rodrigo eventually decreed that he needed to be the king of Valencia. Since there were Berbers in Valencia at the time, Rodrigo rounded up some Moor and some Christian serial killers, to help him kill the Berbers, so he could, of Valencia, be The Ruler. This happened. And so, of Valencia, Rodrigo, he was The Ruler. For some five years. Until the Berbers returned, and laid siege to the city.

Rodrigo died in the city, during the siege, probably of some sort of dread siege-type disease. It was after he became dead, that he transformed into the legendary El Cid. Because, though dead, he was armored up, strapped aboard his horse Babieca, and then he "led," a thundering charge, from out of the city. Which freaked the living shit, from out of the Berbers. Who scattered.

Meanwhile, out there in the final frontier, the Enterprise people, they were one day peaceably going where no man had gone before, when some rude woman, she suddenly winked in, there on the bridge, and stole Spock's brain, right out of his head.

Then, she disappeared.

McCoy, he managed to magic a special control box, that could cause the brainless Spock to walk and talk and whatnot, until his brain could be retrieved, and re-inserted, back in his head. Which, eventually, it was.

What does any of this have to do with The Mad Bomber?

Sorry, I got home a bit late tonight so the open thread is, well, late.

Anyway, here's an open thread to share your photographs, etc. Here are a few things that I've shot recently:

Most of Hillary's emails won't be released until after election

I spend most of my time at home. The days are busy caring for my PALS and maintaining the household. The isolation can be oppressive. Thank goodness for music.

So today the old lady and I had our first experience with Uber because my mother-in-law wasn't available to bring us to Urgent Care (Our county school board is riding her like hell with regards to training teachers). The experience wasn't bad and the drivers did their job well even with the minor traffic jam on the way home. We'll probably use them for trips we might have to make on our own that we can't do so by golf cart.

Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. You can find part one of Comfort Food recipes at: Comfort Foods Part One (Recipes): Street Prophets Sunday All Day Brunch.