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Their Band

Last night I went to see Our Band at Barbès (bar-bez’). My original plan was to have dinner at Mile End Deli, the shopping at Trader Joe’s then the show. I left the house late and the train was slow. I ended up going straight to Barbès and got there just a few minutes before […]

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Hearts and Minds

Last night I had to choose between heading down to Brooklyn to see Sam Reider and the Human Hand in Brooklyn or staying home. I have not seen them often which puts a premium on going but I was tired and I have a lot of other things planned and just couldn’t get myself to […]

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A Prophet is Without Honor in His Own Blog

I’m starting to write before 10, that’s great. It would be better if I knew where this was going. I don’t want to write an entry about staying home all day. The food part was good. I made Philly cheesesteak for dinner with gnocchi. When Allison was helping me with important things I remembered to […]

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Yesterday I Clapped on 1 and 3.

I had a musical doubleheader last evening, Jo Kroger and Danielle Miraglia. If my breathing problems hadn’t been interfering with my sleep this would already have been written and I would have posted yesterday. My nasal congestion has been particularly bad the last few weeks; so bad that even the usual efficacious Breathe Right strips […]

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I Get by with a Little Help From My Friends

I had a nice little edition planned for today. Today’s events have driven it from my head. That is not a good thing. Drama is only good when it happens to fictional people. My alarm woke me up as usual at 8:30. Between midnight and then my phone is on Do Not Disturb. I saw […]

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Expansive

I had a sheet of paper with my eyedrop schedule printed on it. I stopped referring to it as I memorized what it would be until Tuesday, when things changed. On Tuesday I went to look at the sheet was gone. I have no idea what happened to it. I had kept it handy to […]

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Citizen Idiot

How did it get so late? Oh yeah, that time thing; it even passes when I’m taking a nap. I hate this not getting enough sleep business. Enough of that, I have a tale to tell. It’s full of sound and fury and told by an idiot. When I left the house I knew that […]

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Treebeard the Mnemonic

Back to being a health blog. Yesterday I had my first infusion of Entyvio for my Crohn’s disease. People are taking this news the wrong way. I did not get any sicker. I’ve had Crohn’s since I was a 12, you’ve never known me without it. I’m in one of the best periods of my […]

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Joe and James and Joe and Pat and Jean and Rachael

I have so much to write about and limited time. I could have said that each of the last three days when I haven’t written. Over the last three days I’ve seen three concerts and a basketball game. The reason I haven’t written is trouble sleeping at night and therefore sleeping late in the mornings. […]

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In the Know

My eyes did something weird today. The day after my cataract surgery I could use my computer without glasses. The next day I couldn’t and I bought a pair of drug store reading glasses and have been using them for two weeks. Today when I got on my computer I struggled to read. I was […]