Who have I talked with this week? There were seven of us at the Grill for the first Friday LGBTQ community gathering, Ana, Susan, Raf, Giuseppe, and Larry. The water aerobics gang, Warren is back from a two week bike trip.
What have I been writing? I am co-authoring an article on preparing for a job interview, and co-presenting a webinar on persons with dementia in the criminal justice system. First drafts of both of those went out on Friday.
What artsy things have I done this week? I am working on a painting, but I have no idea where it is going. I framed prints for a photo exhibit that will go up in July. I am teaching a short class in creating photo books in July, I am doing some background preparation for that.
What artsy thing do I want to do? I want to do some metal work again.
What writing project should I get back to? I have about 1/5th of a book on health care choices and end of life health care written. I took a break from it while we traveled and I have rethought it. It is too academic, it does not tell a story. I should rework it, connect it with real people and make progress on it.
What have I been reading? I finished the latest library stack, and started into Alton Brown's Collected Essays.
What am I up to this week? A bunch of committee meetings, and taking dear neighbors to the airport this morning.
When am I taking them to the airport? 4:30 AM, they have a 6:00 AM flight.
What have I lost? My red zip up hoodie. I must have left it at the pool or the gym, it is not in lost and found. It was a few years old, a little rough around the edges, kind of like me. It was probably time to buy a new one. I hope it is keeping someone warm when they need it.
What time is it? Time for a new cheap watch, the band on the Casio I had been wearing for the past 3-4 years broke, a new watch was cheaper than a replacement band.
Who deserves a slap this week? HeWhoShallNotBeNamed, about 50,000 of them. You know why without my explaining.
What made me laugh this week? YouTube short videos and Alton Brown's new book, he talks about an industrial dumpster overflowing with bread dough.
4:30am!!!!!!! Better you then me. LOL
ReplyDeleteI would bet that the last time you saw 4:30 AM you had not been to sleep yet.
Delete4:30 am. What a good neighbor. I’ve never studied metalwork. Sounds like fun.
ReplyDeleteI went down at 4:20 AM and they were waiting in the parking garage.
Deletebread dough!?!?!?!?
ReplyDeleteHe added several pounds of sugar instead of salt, it grew and grew, and grew. The chapter is hilarious.
DeleteI'm that odd one that likes a morning trip to the airport! Of course, I might get the urge to hop a flight to ... somewhere???
ReplyDeleteI try not to schedule flights before 10:00 AM.
DeleteBusy and productive!
ReplyDeleteHow did we ever find time to work?
DeleteI'm not sure 50,000 slaps is enough. You've been a busy fellow.
ReplyDeleteI try to move enough that no one mistakes me for dead.
DeleteSlaps don't come anywhere near the level of punishment TACO deserves! Unless he is suspended and slapped non-stop for eternity, with no break for food water or bathroom privileges, by the hands of all those he has insulted, disrespected, hurt, and killed. And they should all be wearing gloves made of sandpaper and barbed wire.
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If there is a god, one big heart attack please!
DeleteI love Alton Brown! So eloquent, witty, smart, insightful, entertaining, and a good cook.
ReplyDeleteThe book is 280 pages, I read it in a couple of evenings.
DeleteI'm looking forward to the No Kings protest on Saturday here in Naperville. Are you joining one, David?
ReplyDeleteI usually avoid crowds.
DeleteAre you a speed reader? I find in my senior years that I am reading slower. Or maybe I just grow bored and put the book down for a couple of days while I diddle and dawdle on this confounded machine! ☺
ReplyDeleteI average about 45 pages an hour.
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