Another Brazilian Party

 

Today was very cool for July. I took a long walk at lunch and saw when returning that Lazarus is not going to produce any berries, so apparently the insects outside were not the right type to pollinate it. Compare this to the WEED in my office, which somehow is growing a berry. What is in my office that could have pollinated it?? Do cockroaches pollinate weeds?

It's amazing how, at my age, every doctor's appointment leads to another doctor's appointment. Case in point: at the end of May, I had my annual checkup, and the doctor referred me to Dermatology because she was concerned that something on my ear could be skin cancer. (Not the deadly kind.) Today I had an appointment with the dermatologist, and he said no cancer, but it's psoriasis, and he's concerned that my sore knees are not just the everyday getting-old arthritis but psoriatic arthritis, which is somehow worse (?), so now I have to visit a rheumatologist in October. It just never ends.

After work Travalon drove me to the Labor Temple for more organizing training, then we went to Working Draft Brewery to see the Brazilian band that plays bar samba again. I had gotten an email from the Brazilian list that the jerseys were in, and I didn't remember ordering a jersey, nor was my name on the spreadsheet. I emailed the guy, who said he had extras and he would be there tonight, so I tracked him down. Turns out he was there tonight, but the jerseys weren't, so I'll have to see if one fits me on Sunday at drumming class. I'm skeptical, since none are in my size, but we shall see. I will feel like an official member of the Brazilian group of nebulous size if I have my own jersey. This group reminds me of the ukulele world here in town, where there is a big, nebulous group and lots of subgroups. This Brazilian band is a subgroup. The ukulele people never have luaus, but the Brazilians seem to have parties all the time. Or maybe they are more expansive in their invitations, since they invite the whole group, and maybe the ukulele people only have parties for their subgroups, and I'm not a member. (Though I am on the email list for two subgroups.) In the short time I've been in the Brazilian group, I've been invited to four parties. The money I paid for these classes was well-spent!

As we walked back to the car, we saw this restaurant all lit up:

Right after I took this picture, a guy walking by saw Travalon's Bimini shirt and asked if he had gone fishing there. Travalon had to reply that no, he had not, but he liked the question. He said it was an intelligent one. I told the guy we had been fishing in Alaska, and he said, "That's a lot colder!" and I said, "Yeah, but salmon!" Of course, the seafood we had in Bimini was delicious, so maybe anything you would catch there would be good eating too. If we get back there, we'll have to try fishing.

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