Shots from the Lip

Yesterday was forced rest - I stayed on the living room couch a good portion of the day and took a shower before 3pm and watched a football game on my tablet, in bed........ I still have back pain - will rest as much as feasible today through Thursday when the 'get together' begins..... 

I felt it coming on yeserday......I applied the Japanese roller-ball medicine;  I have a patch on my back - what can I say - it sucks....... I have a back-log of pictures - many taken with my cute, little Kodak that easily transfers pictures from the camera to my computer.....my ideal would be to get those pictures transferred to my Fire tablet.  Alas, I cannot quite figure out how to do it.......one of these days....... I'm reading Hemmingway right now for my literature class.  Two short stories (Francis Macomber and Snows of Kilamanjero) and The Old Man and the Sea.  I read the latter before - decades ago....and in my mind I visualize Spencer Tracy as the old man.  Tracy was the old man in the movie.....I remember that........ After 12% of Spoon River Anthology, the 1915 mythical rural village and it inhabitants poetically described.  For $.49 I got my money's worth!!    I am also continuing with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here - a descrip...

 Cat Ballou came out mid-1965.  I remember seeing it way back when.  This morning it was the movie of the week for our History of Comedy class.  There were 7 of us at the Emeritus Bldg on 2d Street, Santa Monica, for the hybrid class......~50 taking the class on Zoom.  Given the option of going to a live lecture hall with a smaller group of attendees and staying at home and doing the class by computer, I'll go to the live class whenever feasible. What was nice was leaving home earlier, this morning and walking directly to Ocean Avenue and the park setting on the palisade overlooking the beach and ocean.......there is a definite tranquility sitting and looking out before class..........I started life overlooking the Atlantic.  Now, in my so-called twilight years, I am overlooking the Pacific..............