[metmom]

Yes, callous as it sounds.

[knarf]

I'll be 75 in a matter of relative hours . . Feb 29/March 1) and I've reached the point of not caring any more.

I just finished binge watching The Last Kingdom

(The Last Kingdom is a Netflix Original historical-fiction drama, based on The Saxon Stories by author Bernard Cornwell.)

and is chock FULL of in your face, hand to hand combat on bloody open fields, the like of which depicts men fighting ferociously FOR THEIR LAND . . . something we here in FR talk about but we no longer do