Long post... spilling my guts
The political stuff has me glued to the tube, ebay is really really slow
and that is causing anxiety . Some sweet and sad memories have been
occuring that are distracting and maybe not the very worst bu very
stressful is the heatwave we have been having - Isimply have a very low
tolerance for summer weather -
I can barely walk in temperatures as high as we have been havingthis
year and have a hard enough time moving when it is merely 80° let alone
over 90° with high humidity for days and days.. .
My apartment is wonderfully airconditioned but not being able to walk
more than a few steps outside without wiltingis torture. several things
I'm doing to
help. I got a 30 day Metrocard that allows one to take as many trips as
one wants for a fixed price. I got it on July 12 and so far have taken
about 35 rides
when I hit 42 I'll have spent the same amount as my normal senior rate
and the rest of the time will be essentially free but I had to put out
$58 up front
to get the pass.
I have to walk at least one block to get to a bus stop , and I only go
out when I can see that once side of thestreet is under full shade. I
wear a cold cloth around my neck , douse my head underwater before going
out and carry lots of ice water with me... and basically I'm so
remarkably healthy compared to
most of my friends and others pushing 80 that I'm fortunate.. but the
sun and heat turn me into an invalid rapidly. Did I mention I HATE summer?
Another thing that has been keeping me away from you guys is a big
project I'm almost finished with... transferring about 40 - 50 cassette
recordings
from 90 minute cassettes to 80 minute CD's. These are tapes from the 2
month trip across country just after 9/11 (the first month was planned
before
that date and extended to make sure I didn't get back home until the
dust settled more, literally). I still had a little bit of money left
and also used the trip as a way to gather more ebay items, visit family,
get notes for a book I was writing I've never finished. The trip was
amazing.. and afterI did a few tape to cd's I started listening to them
again, and following my trip on google maps and such. a number of years
ago I had help transcribing most of the notes Iwas taking
as I went along , to documents but stopped before the last few days of
the trip, as that was homeward bound and not as interesting.
The 2002 trip was yet to be listened to, except for a couple of tapes
where I knew I wanted to review stuff... so I took that journey first,
looking at the
photos I took, looking at the places on google, following my route... so
that was and is both sweet and sad because I can't really do it
anymore. It did
make me every so grateful to Richard, who insisted I leared to drive in
my 40's - a practical matter as he wsa 15 years older and knew he would
probably reach the age when he couldn't drive himself - or shouldn't.
Now I'm at that age... haven't driven in years - but I did so love
driving and driving alone across
the country..
Then there was the memorial service for a friend who was one of a family
I had become a part of and it took placethat was on where his mother lived
and I had spent hours and hours over the years - since the mid 1960's
and found I could not bear to be at once she was gone - that was in 2007...
I started my 2002 trip there, ather 80th birthday party , and had both
begun and ended my 2001 trip there as well. I'm really such a glass
half full gal
that this stuff, mixed with financial anxiety and theugliness of the
atmosphere these days, well - it made it difficult to chit-chat and
critque...
ONe of the reasons I like facebook is thatmany of you who I know well,
or fairly well are there too andone can just keep in touch, view photos,
make quick one-liners and like each ohters ideas with a click - not to
mention playing Words with Friends with one of you :-) . I can understand
the reluctance to get on facebook, but it is no longer that thing for
the kids- except when they are grandkids of grandmas and dads whoare there.
Today is one of the worst heat days, so I decided not to even go out . I
have gotten those extra free listing days on ebay so I'm more enthused
about listing stuff, the second convention has not yet started, I had
some really yummy chinese dumpling yesterday - a good report from my eye
doc on my glaucoma,
I'm down to 130 lbs, and Inspector Lewis is back on PBS this evening.
(re-runs until August 7th, but hey, i'ts still Whatley and Fox) AND I'm
almost finished
doing the tape to cd thing.
Oh yeah, after replace the fridge, the next thing to go was my flip
phone... can't hear anyone very well on it and the ringtone is too
soft... so I"m getting
a samsung galaxy t-379 which has a little keyboard, a larger screen, and
a place for a micro sd...
On a photo note - Went to see The Diane Arbus exhibit at the new Met
Breuer - terrific stuff. I had also seen the "Unfinished" exhibit,
which is quite wonderful as well. The Breuer took the building that
housed the old Whitney and it is a good manageable and user friendly
space . The Met is still Pay what you will so I give'em my two bits.
Here is one photo from the memorial for Chris Fisher - if it doesn't let
you in, the pass word is simply "chris" It was a Celebration of his
life kind of thing and a distribution of his ashes in places he loved...
not my sort of thing, but I went with the flow... and I was asked to do
the photography to document it , asI
had the memorial for Nora , his mom - and to document the house she
lived in before it was changed by hergranddaughter , who is living there
now..
https://annsan.smugmug.com/Friends-and-Family/Remembering-Chris-Fisher/i-q3CdjjL/A
So that's all the news from Gotham for now... I guess I needed to blab
about it all to the few of you who will be interested - you know who you
are :-)
ann
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