My phone was upstairs, so I missed the reminder alarm for Kaleidoscope, and I didn't tune in until 6:45. Napped afterward through part of Fresh Air. Watched the first hour of North to Alaska; could have kept going, but wanted something else. Listened to a Vin Scully game from 1969 on YouTube for close to another hour.
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
My Day
Dot dot dot... besides eight hours of paid employment, I also did the following:
Listened to the "Drear Poosen" episode of Jack Benny from 1950... the show featured "Michael Romanoff". Right afterward, read an article (can't recall where it was) that contained a photo feature about "Michael Romanoff". Coincidence? I think so.
Read an issue of the Toledo Blade from 1940... it had columns from Ernie Pyle (in South America) and Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day.
Listened to a Cincinnati public radio station with an episode of Mike Whorf's Kaleidoscope, telling a half-hour version of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Can't say when the episode was put together, but I listened to K'scope close to 50 years ago on WJR. J.P. McCarthy from 6 to 10, Mike Whorf from 10 to 11, Karl Haas with Adventures in Good Music from 11 to noon.
Listened to an Audm reading of an article from The New Yorker. The article is dated 2020, but it's about aging...
Read a TNY article about the podcast 70 By 70, in which people older than I am describe life from their particular perspective...
Watched the last 15 minutes of a late-1950's episode of Date with an Angel, with Betty White, Richard Deacon, and Burt Mustin...
And at this moment, Trouble In Paradise (1932) is on TCM. Are you detecting a pattern?
Podcast subscriptions to You Must Remember This, Sass Mouth Dames (both about Hollywood history), and Cocaine and Rhinestones, about the history of country music. Living in the past, yep, that's me.
Quick Henry, the Flitch!
Watched "Remember the Night" last night, and the Wikipedia entry for that movie led me to a 1940 copy of the Toledo Blade.
"A flitch is the side, or a steak cut from the side, of an animal or fish. The term now usually occurs only in connection with a side of salted and cured pork in the phrase a flitch of bacon."
And now I know... the rest of the story.
Monday, December 27, 2021
Why? (Why not?)
"All the things we do in our spare time are driven by a simple love of that past-time, hobby or pursuit. Those precious hours when we are not working should be filled with things we love and that we want to do. The moment that a past-time, hobby or pursuit starts to feel forced or work-like or that you’re just going through the motions, you probably ought to take a break from it."
Simply this
BB and I were doing the NYT Spelling Bee, as usual. Sometimes we'd have little celebrations after one or the other of us would find a word. Sometimes we'd lament that we were a letter short of a word, or that the word we found didn't contain the required center letter.
At one point, I told her that with just one more letter, I could have had "dogsbody". And I knew that she knew what the word meant. Realized that she knew she didn't have to hide her intelligence and how much that meant to her after her first marriage. She's happy. I'm happy.
What's My Motivation?
After gaining a few pounds, and since Type 2 diabetes runs in the family, I went back on sertraline, which tends to suppress my appetite. It worked: I'm back to my normal weight.
But it also makes me lethargic, and combined with the change of season and its colder, gray days, I couldn't answer the eternal question: "What's my motivation?" Result: no entries for a month.
Do you have any secrets to longevity and staying in shape?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/sports/julia-hawkins-running.html
To stay in shape, just keep active. Keep your weight down and exercise. Have a lot of passions, things that you are interested in. Keep interested in a lot of things to keep you busy and keep your mind busy.
And look for magic moments. That is something that I have done in my life — think of the things that are magic moments that happen to you, like sunsets and sunrises, rainbows, beautiful birds, music and people’s lovely comments to you. All of those are magic moments and they are free for all. Be sure to keep your eye open for them.
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)