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First day an indication of the rest?
Jan. 2nd, 2020 09:24 amPercolating in the back of my mind is a thing about superstitions, but that will have to happen in the future. I don't know that I expect things done on New Year's Day to indicate the subsequent days, but here are the things.
I rarely do Parkruns around here because the timing conflicts with my Tai Chi class, but I go when there is no Tai Chi. The one in Jamaica Plain started out running around the Pond, but they switched to the Arboretum when there was some sort of construction at the first site. When I went on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (just over a month ago), I worked out the most straightforward walking way from the Forest Hills stop. I noticed that they were doing an extra holiday race yesterday morning, at 10 AM (a little later than usual). Even though we have snow and ice all over our driveway and the Lexington sidewalks in general, the surfaces in Boston were clear, and I presumed that would be true in JP. Got there a little early. No sign, no route markers, no organizer-looking people. Called Arthur to check on the web. After several minutes of back-and-forth clarifications, we determined that sometime in the last month, they moved back to the original site. Sigh. Superstition or not, it wouldn't surprise me if I keep making mistakes like that the rest of the year. A number of my Duolingo errors are from not reading the question carefully.
On the plus side (basically everything else)
Over a twelve hour period, when the T system was running on a Sunday schedule, I only once had to wait longer than four minutes for a conveyance. Two orange line trains, one green line (7 mins), three red line, the 77 bus X 2 trips. Amazing.
We did a lot of recycling and kitchen cleaning (didn't mop the floor, though).
Made the usual black-eyed peas dish for the New Year (superstition and tradition are the same thing?), which was delicious even though the texture was different because I used diced tomatoes instead of puree and covered the casserole dish. Thanks as always, Bryant Terry.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6062739-vegan-soul-kitchen?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=to7D36qf4H&rank=1
Arthur made corn bread from a recipe we found online. Definitely not southern style - even though he cut the sugar quantity in half, it still was more like cake. Cake is good, though.
Afternoon visit from Arthur's brother Sam and his over-excited four year old grandson.
Wednesday night was still ringing practice, even though it had been less than 24 hours since we had been there. Pleasant.
It seems from goodreads that I read 34 books in 2019. I haven't investigated Librarything much, but I am planning to move away from Goodreads as part of my no Amazon use goal.
I rarely do Parkruns around here because the timing conflicts with my Tai Chi class, but I go when there is no Tai Chi. The one in Jamaica Plain started out running around the Pond, but they switched to the Arboretum when there was some sort of construction at the first site. When I went on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (just over a month ago), I worked out the most straightforward walking way from the Forest Hills stop. I noticed that they were doing an extra holiday race yesterday morning, at 10 AM (a little later than usual). Even though we have snow and ice all over our driveway and the Lexington sidewalks in general, the surfaces in Boston were clear, and I presumed that would be true in JP. Got there a little early. No sign, no route markers, no organizer-looking people. Called Arthur to check on the web. After several minutes of back-and-forth clarifications, we determined that sometime in the last month, they moved back to the original site. Sigh. Superstition or not, it wouldn't surprise me if I keep making mistakes like that the rest of the year. A number of my Duolingo errors are from not reading the question carefully.
On the plus side (basically everything else)
Over a twelve hour period, when the T system was running on a Sunday schedule, I only once had to wait longer than four minutes for a conveyance. Two orange line trains, one green line (7 mins), three red line, the 77 bus X 2 trips. Amazing.
We did a lot of recycling and kitchen cleaning (didn't mop the floor, though).
Made the usual black-eyed peas dish for the New Year (superstition and tradition are the same thing?), which was delicious even though the texture was different because I used diced tomatoes instead of puree and covered the casserole dish. Thanks as always, Bryant Terry.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6062739-vegan-soul-kitchen?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=to7D36qf4H&rank=1
Arthur made corn bread from a recipe we found online. Definitely not southern style - even though he cut the sugar quantity in half, it still was more like cake. Cake is good, though.
Afternoon visit from Arthur's brother Sam and his over-excited four year old grandson.
Wednesday night was still ringing practice, even though it had been less than 24 hours since we had been there. Pleasant.
It seems from goodreads that I read 34 books in 2019. I haven't investigated Librarything much, but I am planning to move away from Goodreads as part of my no Amazon use goal.
