Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Watchin', Waitin'
The lifeguard said that the water temperature is 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Two weeks ago, it topped out at 60 degrees, and they had to do an ocean rescue - the first and last one so far this summer - when a child got too far out in the surf. Too cold for much trouble, too foggy to see if it happens, anyway. 5 mm wet suit recommended. The lifeguard offered to let me "pose" with his surfboard. "It's yellow!" he said, and then he offered to let me try on his sweat shirt (red). I did not say, "hey, I have wet suits older than you, buddy," but it's, sadly, true!
Another Foggy Day Out There
Noisy in here. Reading Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Become and Why it Matters by Scott Rosenberg (on the recliner), and A Voyage Round John Mortimer by Valerie Grove and Erik Satie by Mary E. Davis (for an article I am writing) and The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem (gift of Bill Lewing) and Change Your Brain Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen (this is for work purposes) and The Beach, gift of my sister Jane, always and perenially, of course, by Lencek and Bosker, and Charles and Emma: The Darwin's Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman and of course, finished Donna Leon Death at the Fenice last night (ha! that link fooled you, eh? Truth is stranger than fiction dept.), before a quick round of Bananagrams solitaire (playing with two can incite "inappropriate" behavior, including murder), and watching Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Charade, a lovely tribute to cheap Paris hotel rooms in 1953. Note in original trailer: original Waring Pro blender, still made in the U.S.A. and still one heck of a blender. Guys hammering out there, with crow bars etc. although the view of the deck from the new front window is calm, ornamented by the top of a long-ago blasted firework with shark motif. 
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