For your consideration, here is episode two of "It's a Ponderous Life", the place where I offer you the daily rantings of a middle aged man trying to come to grips with life where the wife and kids all have their own lives that don't require me, and I get fist shakingly annoyed at the world as I see it.

Today's discussion points include my recent catch-up of TV viewing, including the second season of "Loki", the first of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, and the reality show based on the TV hit "Squid Game". I also start a version of "On the Couch with Bill" as I delve a little into my current home life and the travails that follow. And I've been asked once again by my daughter to buy her concert tickets, this time to Coldplay, which you can follow in real time.

So join me in my quest to get a few things off my chest, in another episodic enlightenment of It's a Ponderous Life, right here on Thoughts from the Metal Cavern.