well, blogger is. counting.
so monday is the 3rd annual Linda B. Klein Birthday Baseball Bash. I've decided to order a cake. the garlic fries were less than satisfactory last year. some of the regulars won't be with us physically. we may need to resort to cell phones for connection. it will have some new elements in the group as well as the same old reliable faces. weekday night is not so great.
tomorrow night i'm going out to dinner to a place that Linda and I used to frequent. that will be nice. hoping for polenta. yum. or mushroom soup. double yum. not wanting to be alone on Linda's actual birthday, i solicited a dinner invitation, and it worked. woo hoo.
had a long phone conversation this morning with a very old friend (well he is older than i am) whose wife is now pretty actively dying after being sick for more than 10 years. it was an interesting and pretty far-reaching conversation.
i am looking forward to a lot of things, and that feels good:
dinner tomorrow; writing in silence workshop saturday; dinner in bkly sunday; monday baseball game ... keeping busy.
on the to-do list beside the regular maintenance things: find a drumming class; do more writing; maybe find a tai chi class (or xi gong as some call it). a personal recommendations would be nice. i think i need to put those out there more and see if anyone has had good experiences.
smoothly. i like when things go mostly smoothly.
there is an unruffledness that feels good even as the panic begins to rise briefly. elements of the high holy days are coming together nicely and that is excellent.
garbage is more than taking the barrels out of the garage. cleaning the litter box is on the agenda tonight as well. there are critters back in the garage and overhead. not good. not liking that part. maybe i'll find someone to do a variety of small tasks around here: new shower head, critter traps (and retrieval?), deadheading the agapanthus in front. a list. no time.
fresh tofu is so delicious. maybe that's the after garbage snack tonight!
