Tuesday 05/05/2026
First thing, ran my laundry. Neighbor Patty let me go first and it was all done and put away by 10am. While the laundry ran I tidied for the housekeeper, then wrote for the writers group. The latter was easy. The prompt was “By good fortune”. So I decided to write about the lucky way I got employed by IBM, knowing nothing but having lucky timing. I had already written that up for my own records a couple years ago, so I just edited the paragraphs a bit and there I was.
After lunch I went to the Line Dance class. After that it was time to put on my costume and go to the auditorium for the first performance of our Spring Musicale, of which the closing act is our mini-music-man. This came off well, several people complimented me later on the duet with Mary for “Lida Rose”.
This was nominally a dress rehearsal, in the afternoon, but the point was to give a mid-day show that the Lee Center people could attend. And there was an audience of 30 or so, maybe more.
Early supper and then at 7pm Joanne and I were back in the auditorium to see the movie “Oh What a Lovely War“. Our movie committee had touted this heavily as a great satirical anti-war film. Well maybe. It just was neither funny nor gripping nor engaging. Just tedious, the “bits” went on too long and were too obvious without being clever. We both bailed about 30 minutes in.
Codgerville 