September 6 6th, 2025
“ Dobroho ranku”, or “Good Morning!” in Ukrainian, is an Eastern Slavic language spoken mainly in Ukraine. The UJT will remain focused on Ukraine until we can all rejoice at the end of hostilities. It has been 2,216 days since Russia invaded Ukraine.
This week, I learned some stuff:
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- I learned that knee replacement pain is much higher than hip replacement pain. You lucked out, Lou! My doctor has a class that you have to tend to prepare for joint replacement. They lump the hip and knee guys together and talk about all the goods and beds and things you gotta do to get ready for it. The whole thing is amazing to me.
- We are playing a lot more cribbage these days. We taught our daughter Jessica and her son BJ how to play. Everybody’s very nice about doing my pegging for me. It’s a lot of fun to play but also it’s just a great excuse to spend time talking with people fuck.
- I have a box filled with medications that I take every day. I did not want to add any more bottles to the shoebox of drugs currently on my menu. So I resisted my daughters and my doctors advice to take allergy meds this week. My doctor challenged me to try the allergy meds for a week if it doesn’t change how I feel that then my day then I don’t have to take them anymore so I took them and decided I need to take them all the time dammit! I think Jessica might’ve pulled her, “I’m always right!” muscle this time.
- You can find out all about today’s history here.
This week’s Website Update:
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- No new recipes again this week
- This week’s quote is from George Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” .
Bonsai Tree and Stained Glass, Update:
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- No progress during visits
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Late breaking news
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- No breaking news.
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Weird-Stuff-O-Meter:
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- The strategy of the Republican Party appears very clear to me now. They are using this administration to continue to expand the imbalance of wealth to a much tighter group while continuing to gerrymander the voting process to achieve the first legally elected dictatorship in the next election. This cannot happen we must overlook our differences and stand between them and their goals if we are to succeed as a nation. They are using every possible way to vacate are viewed to the revers – placing us in harms way in Venezuela, Mexico, and other places in the world – executing executive orders that are only repealed by the courts months later – placing their responsible individuals in cabinet positions to blather on and in comm while they dismantle the infrastructure that ensures our freedoms. It took a while, but finally the states are standing up to some of the abuses of executive power, but we need more action on the ground. I feel bad that I haven’t been able to attend my weekly protest for a couple weeks and happy that I’m going to return today. Is there something you could be doing?
This week’s UJT Radio Program:
We are continuing with the artist whose names begin with the letter “A”.
- Aerosmith — Walk this Way — There’s another one of those anthem songs. Written by Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry. It was a title cut to the 1975 release.
- Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia — Mediterranean Sundance (Rio Ancho) — perhaps the best three guitars of our time got together one evening in San Francisco and played their hearts out for a small audience in December 19 80.
- Al Kooper & Shuggie Otis — Shuggie’s Shuffle — Unlike many of their peers. Al Kooper and Sugi Otis remain true to their blues roots. This is a great recording of a great song.. This song is from the 1969 release, “Kooper Sessions”.
- Al Kooper & Steve Stills — Season of the Witch — this is another one of Cooper’s session albums, “super sessions” which accidentally features Stephen Stills who is around when Mike Bloomfield didn’t show up in New York in 1969 when this captured. It’s a great album!
- Al Stuart —Year of the Cat — This is the total cut from his 1976 release that blasted out of the shadows. A haunting song it always caught my ear and I well produced and well sung.
- Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color — I I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and a lot of people share the music. They find interesting with me. My daughter told me about this band and I found an interesting not your stamped commercial success. I don’t think but there’s a lot of good here. This is the title cut from their 2015 release I encourage you explore the rest of the cuts on the album.
- Alan Parsons project — I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You —In August 1985 my family had everything we owned stolen for the first time. We were in a little cheap hotel near 11 mile and Dequindre in Detroit and our U-Haul rental truck was taken out of the parking lot once we stopped freaking out and started getting our act together again we started replacing some of the things that were taken from us. The first sandwich replaced was a stereo, and this was the first song we played on our new stereo system in our little hotel room. Released as a single in 1977 this was a pretty big hit for them. It sure sounded great on our new stereo.
- Alanis Morissette — Everything (iTunes Originals Version) — My friend Jack Keller introduce me to Alanis Morissette in her music. It seems so strange that a stoic guy like Jack would like such a brutally honest woman in their music, but he did and I came to like it too. This is one of my favorite songs by the slight little old lady. He’s been through so much.. It was originally released on her, “So – called Chaos” album released in 2004.
That’s it… Do the best you can; Laugh every chance you get; Always remember… The best is yet to come! As always, thank you for being my friend!