Starting a Sunday routine again.......

 Once upon a time I wrote and sent out long emails daily.  I did this for years and now, looking back at it all, I wonder how the hell I ever wrote so much and accomplished as much as I did way back when.....

Much success had to do with my starting routines for what I'd write each day of the week.  The one day I remember, though, was Sundays.  I'd be up early and in my office in our Guangzhou home.  I'd make a cup of coffee from the LaVazza espresso machine.  We had that machine for years and I sadly miss it because it made, by far, consistently, the best cup of coffee I've ever had.  That morning double espresso was both sublime and supreme!!!!!

And then I'd listen on the computer to the live stream of Garrison Keillor and Prairie Home Companion.  While listening, I'd read the weekend newspapers that I had access to in China.  If I were in Hong Kong, there'd be a wider choice of papers for me to look at but hey, what I got in China was more than adequate.  That was the best way to start a Sunday morning and it was a tradition for me that ended while in Bangkok....such is life.

It is now 2:25pm on a Labor Day 2025, 1 September Santa Monica afternoon.  While the San Fernando Valley - Granada Hills - will be up to 36 degrees C this afternoon, Santa Monica has already reached its 27  degree high and it is damned nice outside.  I rode my bike this morning, walked and shopped at Trader Joes, twice, and am sitting at my desk, typing on my Amazon Fire, listening to Neil Young's 23 August rock concert and enjoying being relatively healthy but still very much alive today!!!!

I used to read multiple books at once - Kindles are great for that!  Now, I have two books on Kindle as current reading:  Yellowface by RF Kuang, a 20-something writer of phenomenal ability and future potential and the Wall Street Journal Arts editor promoting her new book subsequent to Yellowface.  I'm just into it but already, I've found after the initial pages I've read that this is going to be interesting!!

On the other hand, I do not enjoy The Selected Poems of TS Eliot, the second book of my American Lit class that starts tomorrow.  Yet I'll read the whole thing and follow John AlChorn(instructor) explanations for what I've read yet haven't the foggiest idea what it is about.....

I watched Hostage on Netflix....5 episodes......I liked it.

I will go to art house cinema this week - but I still have no idea what I will see.

That's it for me today!!

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