Feeling slightly better about the country...

since Biden was elected, but still want the Northeast to secede from the US and join with the Pacific Coast to form a new country. 😁 It'll be like East and West Pakistan after India gained its independence in 1947. Of course, historians will point out that there was a lot of suffering and turmoil because of it and then there was also the war that resulted in Bangladesh, so my analogy is a pretty bad one and the idea of secession is not very good either. I guess I will just be thankful that I live in a state that went for Biden. At least, the populous counties did. And I am represented by Democratic senators and a congressperson.

This pandemic is messing up my retirement plans to get a place in Spain or Portugal for the first three months of each year. I was looking at Porto but following it on Yahoo weather, it seemed to be raining all of the time. I also heard the the Azores are very nice too. But since the citizens of this country are personae non grata due to Covid, I will have to postpone any ideas of spending part of my retirement elsewhere. Also it has delayed my anniversary trip to London from work . I wanted to go in summer 2020 but now am hoping for fall 2021. It's been ten years since I have been to Europe. 

What a terrible country!

 I am in total agreement with the opinions expressed by Frank Bruni in this op-ed. I would love to leave the country but with family, I can't. Then what country would take an American? 

How Will I Ever Look at America the Same Way Again?

Rediscovered song

I have still been watching musician live shows during the pandemic. Recently I watched Robyn Hitchcock do a tribute show of John Lennon songs. He included this one, #9 Dream, which I forgot was such a good song.  It's a bit of a nostalgic one so I liked it for that reason.

Route 66 is more than 65.

 There are a lot of good versions of this song and several bad. But this may be the original. 

Can't Play Music anymore

One of the unfortunate results of the pandemic is no more music playing for me. I was in the process of starting a new band with another group of oldsters, playing old 60s music with a smattering of 60's oriented later music. (My previous attempt at a new wave band fizzled.) But the music is loud it can't be played outdoors, and playing and singing indoors is out. So this is on hold for now. I'd enjoy finding a singing partner to do vocal duets like the Everly Brothers and Louvin Brothers did. I have used Garageband to record me doing both parts. It's fun but when I listen closely I hear lots of off-key notes. 

Cathy's Clown    

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Have You Seen Her Face?

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Shaggy Hair

As barber shops have been closed since March, I have been without a haircut since the end of February. I am starting to look like a 70s baseball player when I wear a hat. No mustache though. Actually, my barber will be closed for awhile as he had some major medical issues two years ago.  I will need to go to his competitor until my guy is back, if he ever is. One of the problems I have with longer hair is that it falls down over my forehead and gives me a Ted Koppel look. I have dreams every once in awhile in which I have my college length long hair again. I am afraid that if I did that again all of the grey hair I have, which to this point has been restricted to parts of the body no one can see, will show up. The ravages of aging. 😢 

 

Funny new yorker cartoon

that expresses the way I am feeling. Ordinarily work slows down in May and I welcome the down time. But we have been slow since mid-March so days are basically the same. It's even getting so that weekends aren't that different. There is a question to whether we will even be able to go see customers in the fall as we usually do. 

I am still enjoying the stuff I am DVR'ing from Turner Classics though I wish I would have done more 30s musicals when they were on. I am not much of a Broadway show fan but I do enjoy the Busby Berkeley and the Astaire Rogers films. Shall We Dance had an amazing dance on roller skates in Central Park. And then of course there is this song .