Its Sunday quiet after a noisy night

pals at dinner

So this is Judy and Janine at one of our pre social distancing dinners with college pals.  Remember dinners out with friends?  She FaceTimed last evening where we tried to solve the worlds problems and bitched about being isolated from the world.  We tried an outdoor meeting with some former neighbors yesterday afternoon in their back yard with some distance between and only interacting with conversation.  The noisy dogs were barking and running around playing.




 And now from old people world:
Last evening after TV viewing, we retired only to hear someones television blaring from below us.  It went on for about an hour.  Friend John yelled for them to turn it down but to no avail.  Really a big exciting night.  It finally shut off or a resident strangled the offender.  It matters not, quiet resumed.

When it first came out, The Sopranos was on HBO and we did not subscribe,  so I only heard about it from friends and read reviews in the paper.  Disappointing but not life changing.  My life went on and the series wrapped up.  This was the 90's I think, and low and behold, Hulu picks the series up in 2020.  Bingo, and bada bing, I'm in.  I started watching this week only seeing the first two episodes.

As strong and tortured a character as Tony is, I love Livia, his mother and Dr. Melfi the shrink.  The hyper violence seems  bit gratuitous to me, but all the characters are interesting.  Tony's collapse when the ducks from his pool fly away was beautifully done.  When we lived in NJ in the 80's my route to work took me on the opening credits on the NJ Turnpike up to exit 16W where I got off.  I started my outside selling career in Newark so the neighborhoods looked much the same.  I look forward to seeing more of the series.

Did a lot of walking yesterday about 6.4 miles.  The day was sunny with breezes blowing and Harry loved all the smells along the way.  Walking seems to be my path to sanity in all this madness we live in now.  Have grown to hate the corona/trump news and further dislike the droning on commercials about insurance companies telling me we "in it together".  The demanding TV lawyers are whining how much they want to help us too.

I miss Chinese food.

all for now
stay safe