While hanging out with kids and playing Army Guys, we also did a couple of crossword puzzles. I’ve never been very good at these, but it was much more fun with a bunch of us doing it together. The second puzzle definitely went faster than the first one. Boatload Crossword Puzzles What’s Tomorrow? December 22

Take a moment to read about Samuel Mudd today. He was convicted as a co-conspirator to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was convicted of this and sentenced to life in prison, but was later pardoned by Andrew Johnson. I don’t know enough about the story to make a judgement one way or the other,