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World football

It was the summer in grad school when we camped between Oregon and Nova Scotia. We had money and free time and no plans. It was fantastic.



One hot southwestern afternoon we rolled into a small college town in search of lunch and cold drinks. The town was in party mode. Turns out the World Cup was on and a large number of foreign students were showing their American friends what football was really about. We joined the party but only recently did I get the message.



All this comes to mind waiting for Spain v Italy.

Dinner date

My old friend Tom is coming through town and we're getting together tonight. Looking forward to it. He's one of the older friends I have left in this world, going back to U of O in the early 70s or maybe it was the late 60s. He played the lead in the first one-act I had produced.

Continued improvement on the health front. About time. No, let's not anger the gods, I take that back.

I actually did some writing this morning. I need to fill my mind with distractions from the world at large. Nothing ambitious, mind you, but something to keep me occupied.

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Connections

Stumbled across the special effects climate disaster spectacle The Day After Tomorrow. Doesn't seem as far-fetched as when it first came out. Switched to see the news and the top three stories were about climate disasters. Not as extreme but extreme enough and all in the family. Tick tock tick tock.

O boy

An email from an actor friend -- are you going to make any more movies? -- got me thinking that, actually, a film adaptation of the recent novel would be doable. Small cast. All local settings. Challenges to find ways to do News and Heavy Reading in the film narrative ... this could be done. For starters, I invited the actor to read the novel and see what he thought. He'd be a good CJ.  His wife would have a role. Hmm. HMM.