Thanks for the update. My Brooklyn daughter has no a/c and won't let me buy her a window unit. Tough kid. I don't mind the heat, and I go out to shoot, garden and shop, but I stay cool at home-- 72 degrees.
Paul via phone > On Jul 24, 2016, at 1:57 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > Long post... spilling my guts > > The political stuff has me glued to the tube, ebay is really really slow and > that is causing anxiety . Some sweet and sad memories have been occuring that > are distracting and maybe not the very worst bu very stressful is the > heatwave we have been having - Isimply have a very low tolerance for summer > weather - > I can barely walk in temperatures as high as we have been havingthis year and > have a hard enough time moving when it is merely 80° let alone over 90° with > high humidity for days and days.. . > > My apartment is wonderfully airconditioned but not being able to walk more > than a few steps outside without wiltingis torture. several things I'm doing > to > help. I got a 30 day Metrocard that allows one to take as many trips as one > wants for a fixed price. I got it on July 12 and so far have taken about 35 > rides > when I hit 42 I'll have spent the same amount as my normal senior rate and > the rest of the time will be essentially free but I had to put out $58 up > front > to get the pass. > > I have to walk at least one block to get to a bus stop , and I only go out > when I can see that once side of thestreet is under full shade. I wear a cold > cloth around my neck , douse my head underwater before going out and carry > lots of ice water with me... and basically I'm so remarkably healthy compared > to > most of my friends and others pushing 80 that I'm fortunate.. but the sun and > heat turn me into an invalid rapidly. Did I mention I HATE summer? > > Another thing that has been keeping me away from you guys is a big project > I'm almost finished with... transferring about 40 - 50 cassette recordings > from 90 minute cassettes to 80 minute CD's. These are tapes from the 2 month > trip across country just after 9/11 (the first month was planned before > that date and extended to make sure I didn't get back home until the dust > settled more, literally). I still had a little bit of money left and also > used the trip as a way to gather more ebay items, visit family, get notes for > a book I was writing I've never finished. The trip was amazing.. and afterI > did a few tape to cd's I started listening to them again, and following my > trip on google maps and such. a number of years ago I had help transcribing > most of the notes Iwas taking > as I went along , to documents but stopped before the last few days of the > trip, as that was homeward bound and not as interesting. > > > The 2002 trip was yet to be listened to, except for a couple of tapes where I > knew I wanted to review stuff... so I took that journey first, looking at the > photos I took, looking at the places on google, following my route... so that > was and is both sweet and sad because I can't really do it anymore. It did > make me every so grateful to Richard, who insisted I leared to drive in my > 40's - a practical matter as he wsa 15 years older and knew he would probably > reach the age when he couldn't drive himself - or shouldn't. Now I'm at that > age... haven't driven in years - but I did so love driving and driving alone > across > the country.. > > Then there was the memorial service for a friend who was one of a family I > had become a part of and it took placethat was on where his mother lived > and I had spent hours and hours over the years - since the mid 1960's and > found I could not bear to be at once she was gone - that was in 2007... > I started my 2002 trip there, ather 80th birthday party , and had both begun > and ended my 2001 trip there as well. I'm really such a glass half full gal > that this stuff, mixed with financial anxiety and theugliness of the > atmosphere these days, well - it made it difficult to chit-chat and critque... > > ONe of the reasons I like facebook is thatmany of you who I know well, or > fairly well are there too andone can just keep in touch, view photos, > make quick one-liners and like each ohters ideas with a click - not to > mention playing Words with Friends with one of you :-) . I can understand > the reluctance to get on facebook, but it is no longer that thing for the > kids- except when they are grandkids of grandmas and dads whoare there. > > Today is one of the worst heat days, so I decided not to even go out . I have > gotten those extra free listing days on ebay so I'm more enthused about > listing stuff, the second convention has not yet started, I had some really > yummy chinese dumpling yesterday - a good report from my eye doc on my > glaucoma, > I'm down to 130 lbs, and Inspector Lewis is back on PBS this evening. > (re-runs until August 7th, but hey, i'ts still Whatley and Fox) AND I'm > almost finished > doing the tape to cd thing. > > Oh yeah, after replace the fridge, the next thing to go was my flip phone... > can't hear anyone very well on it and the ringtone is too soft... so I"m > getting > a samsung galaxy t-379 which has a little keyboard, a larger screen, and a > place for a micro sd... > > On a photo note - Went to see The Diane Arbus exhibit at the new Met Breuer - > terrific stuff. I had also seen the "Unfinished" exhibit, which is quite > wonderful as well. The Breuer took the building that housed the old Whitney > and it is a good manageable and user friendly space . The Met is still Pay > what you will so I give'em my two bits. > > Here is one photo from the memorial for Chris Fisher - if it doesn't let you > in, the pass word is simply "chris" It was a Celebration of his life kind of > thing and a distribution of his ashes in places he loved... not my sort of > thing, but I went with the flow... and I was asked to do the photography to > document it , asI > had the memorial for Nora , his mom - and to document the house she lived in > before it was changed by hergranddaughter , who is living there now.. > > https://annsan.smugmug.com/Friends-and-Family/Remembering-Chris-Fisher/i-q3CdjjL/A > > So that's all the news from Gotham for now... I guess I needed to blab about > it all to the few of you who will be interested - you know who you are :-) > > ann > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
