Well, it's 8:30 Saturday night now. I had my dinner and my bottle of wine last night, did a thorough hairwash and batch, watched inane stuff on YouTube, and sacked out. I slept pretty well too.
My baths are messier than just wiping myself down, but a lot more satisfactory. I just keep a couple of dedicated pieces of cardboard I spread on the floor and while they get plenty wet, they do dry out. Friday and Tuesday nights are probably the best schedule. That ensures I'm nice and clean for the weekend and for when Ken comes by midweek.
I'm a bit over halfway through Morris Berman's book on Japan, "Neurotic Beauty". It's a great book. I hate buying books new for full price, but I've sure gotten my money's worth with his books. (It's less clear-cut for me with Dmitry Orlov's books; one of them really isn't anything I couldn't get from reading his blog posts, and the other is a great idea but he recently published an interview on the subject that's better than the book, and free.)
The air, yesterday and today and probably tomorrow, is about the equivalent of smoking 10 cigarettes a day. Not great, not terrible.
I got a good practice in, on the trumpet and on the shofar. What annoys me is if I'd spent the money and gotten a more "professional" shofar, blowing the thing would be rather trivial. But, this time of year everyone wants a shofar, so it's the wrong time to buy one. Also, I consider this shofar to be almost a throwaway, so if I can find a form I plan to try heating up the mouthpiece end until the horn is pliable and sticking the form in and letting it cool, thus making more of a conventional mouthpiece cup and making it much, much easier to sound.
I made an interesting beef curry with purslane and it came out pretty good. My cooking has really been improving with my eating at home so much. I think I may be dropping a little weight too, as it's a lot easier to stay "keto" when eating at home.
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