@dagmaraka,
ossobuco wrote:Terrific photos, dag, really great.
dagmaraka wrote:thankee. joe makes it easy.
I agree on both counts. Isn't it remarkable how Joe continues to lose weight while building up strength and endurance? He's an inspiration.
I am just returning from dinner with Joe. We had a great time hashing out absent A2K people, then talking about running, working out, and what not. At one point, when I told him about my new life as a happily unemployed drifter, he said: "I don't mean to sound like your father ... but what's your
plan now?" (During the ellipsis points in this quote, you need to imagine inserted body language for "is it okay for me to continue even if I do sound like your father?") Little did he know that my parents had called me this morning, and that my real life father had indeed asked me this very same question. It's spooky, I tell you!
Anyway, we had a very good talk about figuring out where one wants to go after a break in ones career. A book called "What color is your parachute?" figured prominently in it. I bought the book on my after-dinner promenade down Broadway from 85th to 33th street, and from there on over to Penn Station. I'll read it within the next days.
From the job talk, the conversation moved on to Oliver Sacks's "Musicophilia", and then on to a book about cheating, how it's influenced by an environment in which other people cheat, and on who those people. (I tried to buy that book too, but don't remember the title. Can you help me there, Joe?)
After what seemed like 15 minutes after we sat down, our two-hour dinner was over and we both went our separate ways again. Today was a wonderful day; this dinner was its fitting culmination.
PS: Yes, Joe, it
is okay to sound like my dad. From now on, you may consider yourself his deputy.
