A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
I’m brainstorming what I’ll learn next after all the countries of the world. Possibilities:
The names of all the plants, flowers and trees in New York.
The constellations.
Evolution to the point where I could participate in debate.
This is walking west through Union Square. Pretty. I need more green in my life.
“Data from the United States, England and 11 other European countries suggest that the earlier people retire, the more quickly their memories decline.” (From today’s Times.)
I’ve started home schooling myself on subjects I’ve never been good at or just missed altogether. First up is geography. Beginning with Asia, every day I test myself by naming countries on a blank map. I learn a few each day, but by the next day I’ve forgotten most of the ones I’d learned. Very frustrating, but eventually it started to take and I’m up to 40 that I can consistently remember every day.
Yesterday I couldn’t help thinking it was kinda pointless, and maybe there was something more useful I could be learning, but now I’m thinking if nothing else it’s good brain exercise.
A biker riding past Madison Square Park.
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I don’t know how successful this shot is, because you can’t even tell what’s going on. This is a picture of a handball game at night. This looking through a fence into the park, which is higher than street-level. You can see the spectators, but not the players.
My camera battery always dies at the most inconvenient times. I was meeting some friends for dinner and I was a little early, but I was in the mood to walk around and take pictures of the night life and boom. My camera battery dies. Stupid battery.
Right now I’m deciding what to do today. Be a slug, or go to one of the Open House New York things. Of course many of the ones I would have liked to have gone to are booked or were only open yesterday. But not all.
On the weekends, the rescue organization Mighty Mutts sets up in front of the greenmarket. I can never resist taking a look. There was a chihuahua there recently, too.
