Monday, March 30, 2020

March 30, 2020



Learning Video Conferencing on the fly. Have to get workmates up to speed and some just ain't mission capable for now. Zoom looks like what we will adopt. My work is trying to install and distribute Webex but that is going slow. On Friday I joined a virtual a cocktail hour with friends ,via facetime, and yesterday was a birthday get-together for a nephew on Zoom.



Work cleaning supplies.



Greenmarkets enforcing social distances.

Monday, March 23, 2020

March 23, 2020



Gov. Cuomo is our wartime consiglieri.

Tom Hagen: Michael, why am I out?
Michael: You're not a wartime consigliere, Tom. Things may get rough with the move we're trying.



The Decameron
(Signet Classics)by Giovanni Boccaccio (Author), Mark Musa (Translator), Peter Bondanella (Translator.) I thought it will help in coping with COVID-19.



While at Barnes and Noble I figured i needed more: Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu translated by John Minford.



Also: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch translated by Jeffrey Beneker.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020



Forsythias are out!



$10 win!

Saturday, March 14, 2020

March 14, 2020



The original Mad Max is still good. Road Warrior is still the best.



Yesterday's 70 degrees must have ignited the Flowering Pear Trees. Forsythias will be next.



Looks good: Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear by Patrick Boucheron.



I wanted The Decameron, but had to order it. A perfect book for this Coronavirus outbreak.

Friday, March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020



Dead Weight with Eddie Albert , a fine Columbo. Great line:"Find a different spot, or use a different bait. Otherwise you’re not going to catch anything, Lieutenant.”

Monday, March 9, 2020

March 9, 2020




From The Gothamist, a full moon tonight:

The "supermoon" occurs when the full moon's elliptical orbit is closest to the earth (this is also called the "lunar perigee"). March’s full moon is known as the Worm Moon, because according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, it's a marker that spring is here: "At this time of the year, the ground begins to soften enough for earthworm casts to reappear, inviting robins and other birds to feed—a true sign of spring. Roots start to push their way up through the soil, and the Earth experiences a re-birth as it awakens from its winter slumber." (An alternative name for this moon is the Full Sap Moon, because this is also the time of year "when the sap of sugar maples starts to flow.")



Branzino head.



Free Egg McMuffin from March 2nd.



First Responder night at MSG.



The Knicks played Oklahoma and they had first responders from that state alongside of NYers.



Blue Point Winter Ale tasted good, Hobbits would approve.



Army acronyms from The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson.

Monday, March 2, 2020

March 2, 2020



$15 win!



An Army at Dawn
by Rick Atkinson is quite good. Going to read the whole Liberation Trilogy.