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Jury’s out
I finished reading “The Library Book”, by Susan Orlean, which was recommended by our SF Librarian. I can see why a librarian would recommend it. It’s about the 1986 fire that burned down the L.A. Public Library. It goes into the history and value of libraries in general and worldwide. But also delves into the…
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Seeking borscht
Out of the blue, I had a craving for borscht. I don’t know why. I like beets and haven’t had them in awhile? So, it turns out a Russian bakery called Cinderella is also a restaurant and opened a new location close by. Serendipity! An aside story: once I called directory assistance (remember that?) and…
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Science Friday
I’m not talking about the NPR show. But it is Friday and this is about science. My library books arrived. Here’s what I have: the Bill Bryson book, “A Short History of Nearly Everything”. Only on page 17 and loving it! Then, “Packing for Mars” by Mary Roach, “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger and…
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Memorial for Dick
This was an off-hand memorial put together by his friends from his record store. The location was on Market Street at a bar I’d never been to. It was scheduled for 6 pm. The cab and I arrived way too early. Isaac, the driver asked why I was going there? I told him about the…
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Horse pills
That’s what I call two pills that are one, a multi-vitamin and two, oyster shell calcium that I take twice a day along with the other supplements. I don’t understand why they have to be so big. My former multi-vitamin was about 1/10th the size of a finger nail. This is a pharma mystery. In…
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Once again
Myra came to the rescue. My screen here had frozen and I couldn’t get it out of Zoom. That’s a relief. Ready for tomorrow’s sister zoom and now I know how to unfreeze it. Whew! Also, I got things straightened out with Netflix, which was too boring to go into detail about. Then I sat…
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Saturday entertainment
Netflix won’t start up for me again until next Monday. I had changed my email and somehow that was a problem. Not to worry. We have a lending library in our building and I picked up “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess. It has a white mouse on the cover standing…
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Allah visit
This was really weird. I have Alexa, a devise that plays music and wakes me when I need to be. She lives by my charging station. Last night I put my iPad nearby so I would charge it in the morning. I wake up, not having asked Alexa for her alarm, to what sounded like…
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Extravagance
Vanilla ice cream, dark chocolate and plain cookies. That is my go-to late night treat. Although, I used to enjoy it while watching Stephen Colbert. And then he ‘retired’. That disrupted my schedule, what was he thinking? He wasn’t thinking, “Oh, Bijou won’t enjoy her ice cream. I must continue.” Another treat that is by-gone…
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Cooking
I have to remind myself not to bother making a recipe I see in a cooking magazine. Lots of work for an eggplant. It came out pretty well, but it took me close to four hours to make. More left overs. What was fun was watching a special on Dick Van Dyke. He is 100…
Elephante Blanche by Bijou O’Keefe 