Thursday 04/23/2026
Early, 7:30, I was out for a standard walk (3.5 mi for the day). Stopped for coffee, and at Ace Hardware to stock up on AA batteries.
Then I sat down to work. I spent 20 minutes proofreading for Scribble & Sketch. I spent 20 minutes disputing an obvious scam charge at PayPal. I paid my non-owner’s driver insurance bill for the next 6 months.
Then I put in about 2.5 hours preparing all the material for the CMX that is coming up next Tuesday. I made a sign-up sheet and put it out, and I think it is filling up already. I got all the lyrics from Billy Eilish’s latest album onto a 9-page document. I will have to reproduce 25 copies of that, but that is not a big job, compared to copying them out of genius.com and editing them all into a neat document. This is going to be an interesting session; some of her lyrics are, um, rather spicy. Might have some people walk out? Nah, we’re all grown-ups here.
After lunch I spent a couple of hours finishing the slides and the script for my book talk on May 4th. So that’s done. All that’s left is to rehearse 2 or 3 or 6 times.
At 4:30 I went to a concert. One of our residents, Romie, plays cello in an amateur string quarter. She had brought her 3 friends and they played string quartet stuff for an hour at 4:30. I sat beside Joanne and we made quiet comments to each other. They were, well, amateur. But good hearted and fun.
Ate supper in my room; for lunch I had ordered the quesadilla, which was huge, so I had taken half it back in a box, and I had that an an orange for supper.
Codgerville 