Sunday 02/01/2026
Sunday morning: read the paper, water plants, do crossword. Then I walked (2mi total) to the Rinconada (main) Library and browsed the poetry shelves looking for something to read at Poetry Out Loud tomorrow.
After lunch I worked on learning this great Minneapolis protest song, “Minneapolis: History Chooses You”. I corresponded with the author to get the correct lyrics and chords. Actually I am thinking I would either read the lyrics at P.O.L. Or perform the song? That would be presumptuous.
Famous NYT columnist David Brooks is retiring and his goodby column from the NYT was put up on our CHOpinion mailing list. I read it and got pissed off at him, and spent 2 hours writing a critique that I posted on CHOpinion. I’d put it here but it’s longish and really, who cares?
Then I spent an hour setting up the 11th floor TV so it can show NBC Peacock and all the Winter Olympics stuff. And wrote an email to the AV and tech squad mailing lists saying what I’d done, so “when your neighbors ask if there’s any way to watch the olympics on the 11th floor, here is all you have to do.”
Nice phone calls in between with Dennis and with Laurel.
Nice supper with Gwen, Susan and Harry.
Codgerville 