Friday, October 3, 2025

     Once I calm down, I develop a plan for my old faithful computer. I receive good suggestions. It is difficult to feel so helpless and threatened when the computer is attacked by evil forces.   In the past I felt this panic when toilets and sinks overflowed suddenly. This morning the computer is working and the plumbing is OK.

     Yesterday and today, wind and clouds circle around the neighborhood. Promises of rain but the rain bypasses us. After delaying and complaining, I finally get up out of my chair and do my Physical therapy exercises. Such a struggle.

     I am just about finished with EAST OF EDEN, the longest book I have read in a long time. Steinbeck is such a good writer. I have been living in this story, of families and life in the Salinas Valley for a week now. I am not ready to leave.

     My roommate has zoom meetings most evenings, so I get to watch whatever I want, except for SLOW HORSES, TASK, and WEDNESDAY, the three shows we are watching together. I watch DOC, the story of a woman doctor who loses her memory in a car accident. A good enough show.