They have revamped Diaryland and in the process made it so I can’t update. Whenever that happens I think of leaving Diaryland but no other free site let’s me customize the look as much. I don’t like most of the standard templates, there is too much wasted real estate. Wise Madness on Diaryland looks just the way I want it to look. While I’m waiting for Andrew to fix Diaryland I’ll write my next entry on Word. I might end up with a backlog of entries and you guys can read a Wise Madness marathon when it comes back.
Yesterday’s adventure was meeting Katherine for Coffee. I try and meet my Brooklyn friends in the Union Square area, that’s easy for both of us and there are a zillion places to get coffee and such. The plan was to go to Think Coffee but when I got there the temperature according to my thermometer app was 15,000,000 Kelvins. It is not degrees Kelvin. A Kelvin is the same as a Celsius degree but 0 is not the freezing point of water but absolute zero. By total coincidence 15,000,000 Kelvins is also the temperature at the center of the sun. I like hot coffee but I didn’t want to become a plasma. We ended up going to Daily Bread aka Pain Quotidien. I had iced coffee and a delicious Belgian chocolate brownie. I know that My Gentle Readers are as obsessed with food as I am. I think this paragraph contains the RDA of geekiness. Damn that last sentence put it over the top.
As always, the conversation was better than coffee and even the brownie. Is there higher praise than that? I don’t think so. We had our usual rambling discussion hitting some common points of music, politics, discrimination against women, environmentalism, and our personal lives. Oh, and food. There’s always food. I love a day like that. Our entertainment was ourselves. We walked through Union Square, talked, people watched, and dog watched. Dog watching does not get the attention it deserves. Over the years I’ve spent many hours at the Union Square dog run. I like to make up what the dogs are saying if they could only talk. One human was walking around picking up the dog doo. We praised him for it and he said they all take turns doing it. That’s great. That’s community. It also gave me an idea; training dogs to pick up dog poop. I’m not saying every dog. I’m talking about a specialized dog poop squad. We all know that dogs like smelling poop. They won’t find it distasteful. I bet they’d enjoy it. They’d sit around afterward talking about the different poop they sniffed. “There was this one poop that smelled great. I bet his people served him fried chicken. All I ever get is Alpo.” I will of course become a billionaire training or perhaps selling the dogs. I just have to figure out how they can pick it up and put it in the bag without opposable thumbs.
This entry is even more me than usual. I haven’t done this in a while. I like when things just flow. Perhaps it follows from what I did with Katherine, we just let things flow. I didn’t let things flow through a straw. The argument finally won me over and I’m trying to minimize my use of plastic straws. They are filling up the oceans. I did not use one with my iced coffee. I removed the lid and drank it strawless. There are times I won’t be able to do that; drinking while walking or on the subway. I need the lid on then. I don’t think I can drink an ice cream soda without one. I’ll get ice cream on my nose. They sell all kinds of reusable straws but I’m leery of the hygiene. I could buy high end paper straws that don’t collapse in your drink. Sumer is icumen in and this year I’m going to make ice creamed coffee. That has the same problem as an ice cream soda.
When I got home I watched the Classic Doctor Who Marathon on Twitch TV. It’s free. They are still on the First Doctor. You kids who only know the new show should check it out. The special effects were primitive. The actors will flub lines. The writing is occasionally careless. But the stories are great. Last night I watched most of The Keys of The Keys of Marinus. I don’t remember this one at all. I wonder if it wasn’t shown when they syndicated the original series in the US. It was a 6-part serial. The Doctor wasn’t in two episodes. I don’t know if there was something wrong with William Hartnell or if they just wanted to give him a break. It was just the companions. I just did some research. I knew I could find this. They just gave Hartnell a holiday to rest up. The flubbed line was in the script! The Doctor was supposed to stumble when he said it. Hartnell is flub other lines that weren’t planned, it wasn’t in the budget to reshoot the scenes. This serial was not in the syndicated package. It was one of the lost episodes that they had to find on 16mm film in far flung places.
Tonight, I’m off to see the Mets play the Cubs. Tomorrow is therapy and singing with Terre Roche. I should be singing, My Favorite things.
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