First day of class

 Or first evening of class really, this evening. 

2nd night sleeping without gabapentin and I slept pretty well. I'd taken literally a dozen things apart last night, things we can't give away but have some neat chips and parts inside. 

I slept in until 10, which is good because sleep is good. 

I listened to more of "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich" by William L. Shirer, on audiobook on YouTube while taking the stuff apart. I had the book decades ago, and must have skimmed a lot of it because there's a tone of fine-grained detail there that I don't remember paying attention to, yet little phrases I do remember pop out. 

And in 2024 we've got the same thing going on. Donnie Dumpo paid someone else to take all his tests, Ceaucescu had something like an 8th grade education if that, it's not all that certain Stalin had much formal education at all. 

I packed things to ship, took them to the post office and FedEx, gathered a little shipping stuff, and got back here. I left here at a bit past 4, went over to Whole foods to use the loo and eat a little food, and rode over to the light rail. By now it was about 5 or a bit past and dark. 

I got off at the Winchester station OK and rode down Winchester to Lark and turned in there, at Oka Road, and there I was. The class was in the adult lounge upstairs and since I was plenty early, I had a nice little lie-down on the floor for a bit. 

We books! 2 on learning to read Hebrew, a bencher, a Tanakh, one on mitzvot, one on holidays, and one on Judaism in general. Quite a stack, and they're ours to keep, as part of the $180 class fee I guess. A fair number of them from good old Behrman House. 

There are a lot of people in the class, something like 30, and it was pretty educational and fun. The building closes at 9 so we had to get out of there on time, and for the ride back I really bundled up and was plenty warm riding back. 

I got back onto the green line light rail and that took me to Diridon in no time, and I had time to go into Whole Foods and get some rather woody chicken wings that I just finished eating, and a bottle of cold black coffee to swallow a Tylenol 500 down with. 

The ride back here from there was quiet and really nice. So I did it; I got through my first class session with flying colors.