Bow Tie Tuesday

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Yes, it's Wednesday.  Pix from yesterday.

I'm thinking of thinning my tie collection, and this one's up for grabs.  Want it?  Let me know, and I'll send it to you.  It's a smooth one, and easy to tie, for beginners.





It was a sneezy day yesterday.  During the middle of chorus practice, my nose started running.  This was not great, behind a mask.  Then at night I was sneezing, and the next morning too.  Today it's back to a tingly sinus face/nose thing.

If anything, my long-ish COVID pattern seems to be 2 or 3 days feeling good (except easy to tire); a day or two of digestive problems (sometimes extending to 3 days); 2 or 3 days feeling good (except easy to tire); 1 to 2 days (sometimes extending into a 3rd) of sneezing and runny nose, sudden onset and pretty quick departure; then start the cycle again.

On this schedule I might be having inopportune timing for chorus events this weekend.  But I'm glad to be at least aiming to do them.

The band was there for practice Monday.  Something about that drummer always perks me right up.  I just want to watch her play the drums and enjoy my appreciation for my impression of her.  She's pretty quiet, as far as I can tell, and I really know little about her (though one thing I do know is that she's in a long-term partnership).  This time she waved at me with a big smile, and that was pretty great.

I like being teased about having a crush on her--- and I'm not big into being teased, per se.  But this year there may be a significant added somethin-somethin from the famiilarity of her appearance, for a few days toward the end of each concert cycle.  And she's, like, my age, or close to it.  Maybe even older than I?  I dunno.  I wouldn't put it past her to be holding up nicely.  :D  Also she's a drummer, and I was a drummer, and the drummer within me is a fond thing for me.

Sometimes when I think about what I might've done differently in life, if I'd known earlier what I know now, I think how I'd have more sex more often, and have found ways to be outside more, and more often, and just now I'm hitting on how having music-making with other people more, and more often, would be most worthy.  Also going somewhere with filmmaking.  And maybe that typography and graphic design thing.  That said, I'm grateful to have gotten to where I've gotten with as much of an ability to take care of myself as I've gleaned.  And gleaning is what it took.  I was in no position earlier on to pursue what I now see could've been gratifying for me, and the whole line of thought is strung through multiplicitously with fantasy.  It's sort of bizarre to realize that I've done pretty damned well, in some rudimentary and not-so-rudimentary ways.

Speaking of drumming.  Rudiments.  Reverse paradiddle.  Flam.