 So I'm thinking about marking on a quixotic project but For me and me only I don't know that anyone else will be interested in it But here goes So I'm sure as many of you are aware and if you aren't I'm about to make you aware. So I'm sure as many of you are aware I I teach Latin and I really enjoy it I mean like I feel really pretty lucky that I've been hired to Enjoy my special interests so someone's pain need to like know this stuff and it's useful But you know as it is a special interest, you know, I'll I'll read stuff written in Latin And the problem is is like you hear something's good like oh Look Jordana Bruno Yeah, it's filled with a bunch of mysticism. I thought it was gonna be more interesting. In fact, I Didn't finish reading it. I tried. Oh man. I tried I just couldn't get into it and I'm like things that I do finish reading like Salas, Roman, Jugurtha and Ceremonis Romani, these are both fantastic books But they're written for students and you know, there's nothing wrong with being written for students because you know You've got to learn this somehow, but like I need Well not me. I I just want something a little bit different I mean like this this was super fantastic, but they edited out all the cool stuff and like there's one spot here where it says something like They talk about you know something going on with like some bribery and a conspiracy going on But we're gonna skip over that part. What you just skipped over the most interesting part Or I love medieval Latin It's great Ken Kitchell did a great job with this. It's a super fun book, but You know, it's like symptoms of pregnancy. It's like, uh, yeah cool There's like a page here most of its notes and the notes are fine. That's fine and another page here and That's it. Then we're on to the next thing and you know you just know that this is part of a Larger work, but you get little tiny snippets, you know, and that's why I do some of the things I do like I at the beginning of the year I put out the life of Charlemagne, you know, just because I wanted a copy to read. I don't think anyone's bought it Except for me and that's fine. That's why I put it out. I guess it's a fair enough use of an ISVN number I don't know and then I run across This Actually a volume too. I'm looking forward to volume three coming out. I But I'm really upset Stephanus wrote a really cool book here and I can't say I've read the whole thing. I've read big chunks of it So if you happen to be watching I've read big chunks of it and I enjoyed it a lot. It's like Why don't I write something in Latin? Yeah, I so I do it's like a wrote this with my students by the way This gets absolutely savaged in an Amazon review I might go back and do some proof reading on it so that I can make the Amazon review look a little Dumb, but yeah, it's a stupid story dumb But it gets savaged and yeah, it was fun to write with my students and I enjoyed writing it with my students and This is written for students and this is written for other students I may have a sequel coming up for this one, but they're not very Fulfilling to write. I mean like they're fulfilling enough to write because you know it works for students who are learning Latin and ultimately if There aren't people who know Latin we don't wind up with cool stuff like this But I came up with an idea. Well, you know You could write in Latin and it's not like I'm some great shakes is a latinist. I'm okay I mean I'm okay, I wouldn't say that I write much better than you know Well anyone I mean I'm okay But what I've decided I'm going to do and I'll put a link down in the description To the very beginnings of it. I want to start writing about topics on American history. I've been thinking about Wouldn't it be cool if we had better sources for American history written in Latin and I know I know like there's like Three people who care and I'm one of them So I think I'm gonna start doing that. I'm gonna start cobbling away I started with the Santa Fe trail because I've been there recently but instead of calling it, you know Santa Fe trail I called it we a few days Which I kind of like the sound of and I I'm discovering like I Don't like the name of Santa Fe and Latin like on Wikipedia. It says Sanctus the days and I don't like that It should be something like Pistopolis or something like that that'd be way cooler than the Sanctus the days I whatever Anyway, I'm just starting to ramble now So I'm going to stop but I'm gonna remind you if these kinds of quixotic projects interest you And again, sometimes it'll be about my shoes. Sometimes it'll be about Latin. I don't know might be about anything Anyway, yeah Hit the hit the like button at the subscribe button. I don't know But in any case Yeah That's all I've got for this week