This blog wasn't meant to be a political blog. Therefore, I am trying to limit my comments to my Bluesky (@2Smiley.bsky,social), The other 98% and Democrats, Republicans, and Independents websites.
Joan had a good day with Gabriela. Together, they watched the 4-hour version of Dances with Wolves. It was the Director's Cut which meant the parts cut out of the original 3-hour version were put back in. Joan and I have watched both versions before and agree the parts edited out should have been in the original release to theaters. They were probably cut out to shorten the movie to 3-hours.
I used my time to look at some Dell computers with Windows 11 operating System. The one I have now uses Windows 10 and cannot be upgraded. When I was done, I met with my friend, Michal, at his office and we talked for about an hour.
Meanwhile:
Ukraine received a €1 billion ($1.08 billion) disbursement from the European Union under the G7-backed Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) initiative, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced following a meeting in Brussels with European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis on Wednesday, April 9.
The payment will be directed toward covering “priority state budget expenditures,” the press release said.
It
is the third payment to Ukraine through the ERA, financed by interest
income from frozen Russian sovereign assets. The assets were frozen
following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine still aims to get the principal €210 billion ($227 billion) in
immobilized Russian central bank assets.
