Sounds difficult. There’s few things as rewarding / humbling as watching a former near-peak professional teach their craft. Helps most of us realize we’ll never get close to the mountain top.

Can you describe the drill?

The 14th is the expiration date of the current budget CR, not the date we’ll hit the debt ceiling.

If not raised, the debt ceiling date will be sometime in May, June, or July and is variable depending on tax receipts during the ongoing tax season.

As a Michigan-based advocate, I wish I was so lucky as to be experiencing nothing right now.

Yes. Thank you, it’s been a while since I moved. Multiple great bike trails. I used to ride one of those trails to downtown almost everyday. Austin has great bike infrastructure!

Austin bouldering project on Springfield is what you’re looking for. Stay in the Govalle neighborhood so you can get breakfast tacos at Marcelino’s.

Move your ebooks into calibre on a computer and just transfer to kobo then.

I don’t have a reference handy, but Guelzo’s excellent book on Gettysburg refers to a specific Union Corp that largely spoke German and whose officers were made up of mostly ‘48ers’

Have worked closely with pollsters. Sophisticated ones use the voter file and match info from that with commercially obtainable data sets. If a respondent answers a question in a way that doesn’t match the back end info the pollster has, they toss the respondent.