Best Things of 2021

Introduction

I write these up for my Christmas cards, but I will start my draft list now.

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The Dozen Best

1.Break-action Air Rifles. My Crossman .22 single-shot kills rabbits, is legal to use inside city limits, and isn't as noisy as a "real" rifle.

2. Goofspiel. A simple but profound card game invented by game theorist Merrill Flood at Princeton in the 1950s. You bid for cards simultaneously, one at a time, using one suit as prizes and the others for your currency. https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=The_Goofspiel_Card_Game.

3. Spoons. A hilarious pay-attention card-passing game good for a large group, similar to Pit. https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Spoons-(Card-Game)

4. Death in Paradise and Psych, (skipping season 1), comedy detective mystery TV shows.

5.Wikimedia formatting code.

6. The World Crisis, Winston n Churchill's multi-volume history of World War I. Much better than his famous history of World War II. The witticism when it came out: "Did you hear? Winston's written a giant book, all about himself. He calls it, "The World Crisis".

7. Teaching 7th grade math.

8. The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, by Robert Massie.

9. Persimmon whisky

10. NatCon II, The National Conservatism Conference in Orlando.

11.Hen of the Woods, Boletes, Honey Mushrooms, and Lion's Mane fungus.

12. Retirement. If you can afford it, you can be just as busy and more productive and happy.

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Also-Rans

6 Maraschino liqueur.

5. CourtListener.com An archive of court data including opinions, oral arguments, judges, and federal filings.

6. Internet Archive library for free book borrowing.

7. Rex Stout, The Rubber Band, detective novel with Nero Wolfe.

9. Hett, historian of Nazi Germany.

11. MathPix program to convert pdf to Latex.

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