Quiet.

A quiet Monday here except for having my stitches removed from a minor surgery. The appointment was at 5:15 PM. We arrived a little early and we were on our way home.

During the day we watched all the NFL Sunday games highlights and talked a little about our upcoming trip to Spain. Joan is excited about it and I am too, maybe not quite as excited. For me, there are still a few minor things to prepare and then the packing. However, the concern about another stroke in Spain kind of hovers in the back of my mind.

KYIV, Ukraine, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Russia acknowledged on Monday that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war's deadliest strikes, drawing demands from nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump.

Russia's defense ministry said 63 soldiers had died in the fiery blast which destroyed a temporary barracks in a former vocational college in Makiivka, a twin city of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk.

It said the accommodation had been hit by four rockets fired from U.S.-made HIMARS launchers, claiming two rockets had been shot down. Kyiv said the Russian death toll was in the hundreds, though pro-Russian officials called this an exaggeration.