Sorry for the long silence, but I have been sick with a cold
that turned into a sinus infection. Now I am starting to feel human again. I
never blogged about my weekend, so here goes: Tiffy came up on Saturday and
took me to lunch at a Mideastern restaurant, then we walked down to the Union
to enjoy the beautiful weather. In the evening Rich hosted a birthday party for
me, and among the people there were Kathbert, Jilly Moose, OK Cap, Hockey Girl,
the Single B-Boy, Cali, El Vegetariano, and of course Rich, Tiffy, and
Travalon, as well as the woman whose consecration to perpetual virginity I
attended back in February of 2017. It was a lovely party, and Jilly Moose and
OK Cap gave me a Christmas cactus, and they gave both Travalon and me a book of
50 hikes in our state. Do they know us or what? Cali gave me really good
chocolate, and the woman who doesn’t have a name on this blog gave me an
absolutely gorgeous book of Irish folktales. That’s the upside of being predictable:
people tend to get you presents you actually like. Years ago someone once told
me I was the least mysterious person he had ever met, and at the time I took it
as an insult, but now I wear the badge proudly. Who needs mystery? With me, you
know what you are going to get.
Sunday after Mass, Rich, Tiffy, Travalon, and I went to
brunch at the Crema Café, then we drove out to Sauk to eagle watch. We didn’t
see any eagles sitting in the trees, but we did see a few flying overhead. In
the evening, and all the evenings since then, Travalon and I have been watching
the baseball documentary I got him for Christmas, which is excellent. If you
really want to feel like you’re in the Twenties, watch the Fourth Inning. We
also have been walking around the house to music, because his job does not
require as much walking as his previous one did, so he needs to get more steps somehow. One song we like to walk to a lot is “Manga Dog” by Peter Tosh. The
chorus goes: “Feel sorry for manga dog, him gone turn round bite you.”
I think we can all relate! Who hasn’t been bitten by a "manga dog" at one time?
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