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The study published earlier this week mapped out the roads into what the Roman network could have looked like at the peak of the empire's power, sometime between the 2nd to 4th centuries AD. That network of main roads and little countryside paths didn't centralize in Rome, though. Tom Brughmans, classical archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark and one of the leads on the project, told Reuters that, "...when we consider all movement within the entire Italian peninsula, we were shocked to discover that the most central road actually follows the opposite Adriatic coastline, bypassing Rome altogether." 

It is said that history is 90% n geography and 10% common sense.   It would make no sense at all for traffic from Hispania to Syria to be routed to Rome.  The direct route goes via Constantinople:

Following an investigation, deputies said the property owner encountered a male suspect inside the residence. The suspect reportedly attempted to assault the owner, and a fight occurred. Shots were fired, and the intruder was struck before fleeing the scene.

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"What we know thus far, and this is very preliminary, is that a person believed to be an intruder may have been the person who was shot," said Miami Police spokeswoman Officer Kenia Fallat. "We also have one person at the station that we are speaking to."

Fallat said it is not yet clear whether the resident is a homeowner or a tenant, and police are seeking a search warrant to enter the home.

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"The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary Musk is finding itself unable to buy an ad on the biggest social platforms.

YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram and Facebook owner Meta are all declining to run the trailer for Musk, along with X itself, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

That last one is perhaps understandable, given its owner. But the rejection by the other platforms has taken distributor Bleecker Street by surprise, and it is internally scrambling to understand why the ad has been rejected, according to a person familiar with the company’s processes who is not authorized to talk about them publicly."

The cover shown is just a draft for a possible kindle cover to give my publisher some ideas what I like but the book is finally done and off to the publisher to start round 2 of editing, then formatting and all of that. 

It should be out by the first of the year.  So far, a few galley drafts went out for advance review. Thank you all for your patience with the blog - with household, the death of our Lab Sunny at age 3, and general medical going on's it's been hard to post  much beyond Facebook (I know "Facebook is for OLD people" - my granddaughters.)

Here is the back cover description:  I thought it would be shorter to just say "I got Abdominal Septic Shock and ended up on the Liver Transplant List and all I got was this Plushie Liver " (which I loved - Thank you Erin C.), but my publisher said "no".  (Acually I dont go into much detail on that whole ordeal from a medical standpoint, but the liver is healing and I'm off the list.  They checked the rest of me out beyond thoroughly, and even at my age I was in the running (non smoker, non drinker, normal weight, no medications and heart health of a 30 year old though gravity is winning).

Best-selling author, commercial airline pilot, and retired air crash investigator L.B. Johnson knows exactly how she got here. She just never expected to arrive quite so soon.

In The Serenity Chronicles, Johnson turns her attention from wreckage to reflection. A bout of septic shock and its lasting consequences forced her to reconsider not only the future she had imagined after retirement, but the very meaning of time. Rather than measure life by what remained, she chose to live more deliberately in the days she had.

Written as a series of candid, sometimes irreverent vignettes, this literary memoir wanders through subjects that initially seem wonderfully random, yet gradually reveal an unexpected coherence. Johnson considers the changing landscapes of the body, the ghosts of family history, the persistence of faith, the enduring gifts of love, and the peculiar indignities that aging so generously provides.

There is grief here, and an honest reckoning with mortality. But there is also laughter, gratitude, and the recognition that even an imperfect life can contain extraordinary beauty.

Johnson writes frankly about what aging takes away—and what it gives in return. Readers may wince in recognition, laugh at life’s absurdities, and find some part of their own journey reflected in these pages.  Because being alive is an exercise in enduring surprise.

Sometimes, serenity is not found in knowing what comes next.

Sometimes, it is found in being willing to find out.

Here are a couple  author blurbs for the back cover. 

There’s a reason that LB Johnson has a loyal and even passionate following, and this book shows why. Other writers try to write down the bones, while she loves those bones, polishes them, and gives them life through storytelling. --Latayne C. Scott, award winning author of The Conspiracy of Breath

L.B. Johnson, possesses a sure lyrical style that opens the reader frankly to emotions otherwise neglected. Johnson’s poetic words do not fly off all unattached but plaster themselves to the realities of grief and hope, leaving the reader to sit back and try to account for that which is unaccountable.--Larry Sommers, Author of The Price of Passage

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Officers say they found three men with suspected gunshot wounds on Pleasant Avenue.

Officers say a 39-year-old man was asked to move out of a home allegedly due to accusations of stealing. The 39-year-old allegedly then shot a 32-year-old man and a 28-year-old man when those two tried to retrieve their items. Then, a fourth man allegedly returned fire and shot the 39-year-old man.

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While inside the residence, Davis allegedly stole items from the counter. As he was exiting, he was confronted by the homeowner.

During the exchange, the victim believed Davis was armed with a firearm and had fired one round himself, striking Davis in the groin.

Davis fled the home and was later located in a nearby alley. He was transported to Mosaic for medical treatment and was released into police custody.

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Police arrested Palomo hours after responding to an early morning shooting in the backyard of a home in the 4300 block of Martin Drive, in southeast Fort Worth.

 When police arrived at the home at around 3:30 a.m., they learned that a man and woman who knew one another were fighting. Another man intervened, and the two men began fighting, pulled out handguns and began firing, according to information from police. 

The man who intervened and another man were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

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The victim said her ex-boyfriend was at her door threatening to break in if she didn’t open up. The victim was inside with her child and current boyfriend, who warned the suspect against coming in. 

The suspect scaled the apartment balcony and tried to get in through a window. In response, the current boyfriend shot the suspect once in the leg. 

Officers arrived to find the suspect bleeding on the victim’s balcony. Officers applied a tourniquet, and paramedics arrived to take him to the hospital.

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 I lost my wedding band last week.  I've been losing weight and noticed that the band was getting a bit loose, but didn't think much about it.  Until it was gone.  Doing yard work, I noticed that I was not wearing a wedding band.  Well, hell.

It was a plain gold band, 10-carat, size 9.  I think, when I got married, I paid about $50 for it.  

This morning, I went to my jeweler and ordered a new wedding band.  Yellow cold, 10-carat.  The guy didn't blush went he told me the price, but he did apologize. $500.  Yeah, really.  I'll pick it up on Tuesday. The gold spot price today s $4284.25.

I'm one of those guys who feels naked without a wedding band.

"The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed on the incident said."

By Dave Workman As the 41st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference begins unfolding in Dallas, Texas this weekend, there is suddenly growing media attention to the upcoming Dec. 2 oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the consolidated cases from Illinois and Connecticut which challenge the constitutionality of bans on so-called “assault weapons.” This […]

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