Thursday, July 27, 2023

random thoughts – Day 1,227 – (Thursday) – downtown

It’s been a weird week. The A/C has been under repair all week at the office office, so my usual Wednesday office day was a remote office day, and all day long I kept thinking it was Thursday. When the real Thursday arrived, it was met with confusion and then hustle to get up and ready and out the door for the 7:30 physical therapy appointment. 

PT didn’t hurt hurt, but it sure wasn’t pleasant. There was a lot of gentle poking and pressing on the left hip area and every touch felt tender. That was followed by the exercises, several of which involved rubber band things and most of which were draining. It was a hard 40 minutes. The legs felt like jelly when I was finally done.

Friday is my second office office day in a usual week, and the A/C repair was due to be done today, but tomorrow will be another remote office day anyway. This time, it's due to the street closures for the Folk Fest, which are well underway for the event that begins Friday at 6:15. I’m kind of missing the office and the efficiency of in-person conversations and the ability to bounce ideas off others. 

I was downtown for book club tonight and the streets are lined with Temporary Police Order No Parking signs. It took some driving around the block to get a parking spot. There are tents set up and partially set up and road barriers and all manner of preparation. Folk Fest is a big deal. It’s the longest-running, and second-largest, free folk festival in the country, and you don’t attain that status and longevity without a lot of work. Fingers crossed the weather is decent. 

Another book club
beer adventure.
Book club was initially set to be at the outdoor tables but the rain that began to fall as I left the house and the hint of tornado warnings had us set up inside Warp & Weft. Ten of us snacked on fried onion rings, French fries, sweet potato fries, and the Fig and Pig flatbread pizza, and sipped cocktails and chatted about the book Portrait of a Thief

Overall, we agreed the book would make a great Netflix eight-episode series. My adventurous beer selection for the evening was Dorchester Brewing Punchbowl Fruited Kettle Sour. It sounded interesting and I’d never had it, so it was an easy choice. Book club also serves as my beer of the month club.

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