Up around 3. I watched the Borat 2 movie last night and it was OK at best. The first one was great because as he points out, nowadays everyone in the USA knows who Borat is but in the first one he was able to "zoom" lots of people.
I did more voice exercises last night too ... I'm doing routines called "warm ups" for the most part because I want to have an easy beginning and a lot of any kind of musical instrument is tons of fundamentals, over and over.
Today I read "The Buddha's Wish For The World" which was given to me at this sort of benefit dinner in late 2019 by Rinban Sakamoto at the temple. I've just held onto it since then and since I started this habit of taking a day off of the internet and reading a book, I'd worked my way around to it. It's by Koshin Ohtani, the Monshu which is the present-day direct descendant of Shinran Shonin, the founder of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. The only thing I can say about this "religion" is, they did the math. If you think deeply about such things, you have to come to the same conclusions they did.
So it was a nice read. As soon as I'd heard about this virus going around I stopped going to the temple (and they shut down soon after) because there are a lot of older people there. At one of the get-togethers I talked with a nice older couple who didn't look *that* told but told me "We met in camp" and I had to remind myself it wasn't some Scout camp in the 60s or 70s but would have been an internment camp in the 40s. I don't know how long it will be before things open up there again and it's safe, but I look forward to it.
Now that it's cooled down to a brisk 75 degrees it's felt almost chilly so I need to start getting my winter clothes washed and into rotation.
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