Now at home we eat well. So much better than the place that will not be named.
Breakfast Afterwards
Life in General
Breakfast
Out niece Lucy was visiting (between Boston and Milan, a different story) and she offered to take us out to breakfast. But where? We decided to go to Hawthorne, park, and walk until we settled upon a place. Jennifer had thought of The Hazel Room, but was open to other places. While walking along we saw and was tempted by a place. A place that was a favorite twenty years ago. A place we had not been into in more than a decade. Why not go there? Relive
Because it’s gone downhill. Masivly so. Terribly so. Wonder how they can still stay open. Wonder how they can charge $2.75 for coffee. And we wonder how long they can stay open. We wonder if the founder is still involved with it. And if she’s ashamed of herself.
If you find youself on Hawthone Blvd in Portland, visit The Hazel Room. The place we should have gone to.
2019 October1
Welcome to October! In September I set out to do 30 Days of Ukulele. Which went, well, um, it went nowhere. I played less in September than I did in August. Count that as a big fail. What did I learn? Not to sign on to something that is more than I could handle. I’m not yet up to the level needed for the class. Which lead to my sidestepping on the entire thing. I also seem to do better with a thing I can do on my own. August had daily blogging. The point was to do a “something” each day.
I’ve got a couple of things in mind for October. Check back in four weeks to see how that works out
Notebooks
If you are reading this you are familiar with one way I track my life. It’s a journal of sorts. I have others.
Morning Pages in which I start (almost) every day with four pages of longhand. Part of the idea is to not reread it for at least a month or so. I’ve extended that to not rereading it at all. Well, at bit once in a while. It is approaching the completion of its twentieth book. See Daily DOs for morn information.
Sketch Journal, from Lynda Barry. I have all sorts of stuff in it. With the intent of going back and finding things later. It is actually a fun thing to keep. I’m currently rereading Syllabus with the intent of injecting some of Barry’s suggestions into it. I also have more of her instructional books.
Cooked a part cookbook, part food diary, it’s what I write down what I cook so I’ll have my own cookbook someday. This is not the kind of cookbook you see wherever. Ruth Reichl is kinda sorta a hero for me. Even if my Mom cooks well.
Uke, a ahem, book on learning Ukulele. This one is pretty lame. Hopefully I’ll pull it out of the bin.
Exercise in which I keep track of what I do. Well sorta. It is also lame. But I have aspirations and hopes.
Reading Romeo & Juliet
While strolling through YouTube I came across the Crash Source Literature section. It starts with How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1.
Notice anything? Anything that would set this apart from what you’d get in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare like you might have had in college? Cute cover, isn’t it? Because it is Manga. Like Japanese comic books. So read it backward, with the page
And then I wondered what was amiss with me. I have a Kindle. Shakespeare is
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