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Starting with Hsieh-Osaka tomorrow, which could be the most interesting match of the tournament so far for me, after which we've got Dimitrov-Karatsev. Also absolutely insane what Karatsev has done to reach this point, three tour wins in his entire career before the Australian and now four wins in a slam. Overall though, I think this may now be Medvedev's title to lose. Really looking forward to seeing a match with Nadal, if indeed it comes to pass.

If Djokovic is indeed out then realistically Nadal would have to beat Medvedev and Thiem back to back, which sounds like a tall order. Thiem almost had him at the 2018 US Open and nearly beat Novak in the Australian final last year.

Quite the sight to witness spectators getting booted out at 23:30 sharp, presumably so they could get home by midnight. Not that they would have missed much, diabolical from Fritz in the final set.

Honestly, I don't know why people waste their time studying for advanced degrees, then following up with decades honing their expertise in whatever highly specialised field they've chosen, when apparently all we ever really needed to do as a species was give everyone access to YouTube so they can "think for themselves".

Good, if I remember rightly. It's been a while though. Prometheus?

Not right now, gotta be responsible. Usually though, yes, albeit I'm not very good at instigating them. Is black coffee cold brew with sparkling water a good idea?

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Undoubtedly given the circumstances, I think it would be wrong to read too much into unexpected outcomes. Kenin for example is too good a player to not be a force over the next few years, it feels like it's a question of when rather than if she wins another major. These are unusual times with a lot of unusual results. I think that's all it is.

Sad for Bianca but Hsieh is just an absolute joy and probably one of the last players in the world you'd want to face after a gap of sixteen months. I missed Osaka today as her match clashed with Halep's, which I'm still exhausted from watching.

That's very true, I hadn't quite considered it that way. Plus Djokovic has for the most part had Nadal's number on hard courts in recent years. Perhaps the lack of fanfare has something to do with that too.

Interesting that relatively little is being made of Nadal now playing to become the frontrunner in terms of grand slams won, especially given the "Serena 24" hype at every tournament for the past few years. It's dangerous to write his chances off though, particularly having seen him cruise to a straight sets victory while pretty much hitting all second serves.

I can see how it may not have been what people were expecting at the time. I know for me, because beforehand I'd imagined something along the lines of Arrested Development, it took a little while to start accepting the show for what it was. Less a sitcom, more a character-based comedy drama.

No, I haven't. I'd like to though. Do you keep in touch with any of your friends from school?

I guess because associations are made between certain activities and being social, but I don't think people who aren't into drink, drugs or sex are inherently boring. Rather I'd say boring people are boring. How historically accurate was the TV show Dinosaurs?

Trump mostly seemed to wing it when speaking, and was very rarely informed by fact or principle. He rambled and made little sense, it was just riffs, free associations, clichés and bombast. A lot of rhetoric as well, but mostly rhetoric of the dim variety. The narrative seemingly being peddled across a lot of respectable US media is one of "civil war" within the Republican Party, but there doesn't appear to be much of a civil war going on there, just a lot of wishful thinking. I mean at best, there's a very small, marginalised minority in the GOP fighting a rear-guard action in the cause of decency and accountability, while the bulk of the party is still in lockstep with an insurrectionist intent on following an anti-democratic, nihilistic agenda.

Probably yes, although one can never rule out the possibility of ending up with Elon Musk as a neighbour, which would certainly put me off. Have you ever broken a bone?

Not a lot of upsets in either draw (I don't consider Goffin or Cilic surprises these days, unfortunately), which I should think will make for a few more competitive matches in the first week. Unless I'm forgetting someone, Kerber, Vika and Konta have been the only really notable exits so far and they were at least somewhat quarantine-related.

It's interesting that in many cases, people's feelings about the way things ended seems to have diminished the earlier episodes for them too. I haven't watched the show for a very long time, but I would still expect the first four seasons and particularly S4 to stand up pretty well. I must confess though, I mostly agree with the hate on S8 and the myriad of criticisms about 5-7, although it's good that the original showrunner is being given another shot at the character. I'm hoping for some growth or change to make it compelling.

I will admit to having ignored the show for a while mainly because it's such a terrible title, but after it got nominated for a stack of Emmys last year, I gave it a watch and ended up plowing through five seasons in two or three weeks. Despite people online saying the first season was a bit rough, I was all in by the time we got to Moira's wine commercial.

Here's the recently-released trailer for Falcon and Winter Soldier.

I personally don't. We're pretty inundated with nostalgia at the moment and for me it's reached saturation point. Should Snickers make a chocolate bar that replaces peanuts with cashews?

Good. Dexter?

The Aussie Open underway then, missing a lot of its trademark buzz for obvious reasons, but some of the play has already delivered excitement. The first round match between Shapovalov and Sinner banged, slapped and hammered in equal measure.

Yes... ...probably. Is listening to audio books as worthwhile as reading regular books?

Good. Tomorrowland?