Dreary, Wet, and Unseasonably Warm

Stillness and Fog at Dawn: 7:25

Tyler and his Proud Granny

Up at 6:00, getting back on schedule, to darkness, a gentle patter of rain on the roof, Click and Clack on NPR, waiting for Only A Game at 7:00.  A high of 49 today but also overcast and rain, in fact, most of the coming week, alas.

Yesterday was a lost day, dentist for a teeth cleaning, the library to pick up a couple of books on Vegetarian Cooking (I vow to eat more vegetarian meals about once a year but never do it), and took my car in for an estimate on the damage, about five hundred dollars, not bad, all paid for by insurance.  I take it in on Tuesday, get a loaner for the day, and pick it up the next day as long as they don't find anything else wrong with it.

Because it was wet, we both spent the afternoon relaxing, reading, watching some TV, no hike or walk as we still seem tired from our trip home from KC.  I did forget  to mention yesterday that we had some great news from Tyler, our grandson: he was accepted early decision at Dartmouth, his first choice, also his father's Alma Mater.  We are so proud of him, for his diligence, persistence, and work ethic.  He's an honor student at Fairfield Prep, has been since he entered, and it's nice to see academic excellence honored by this acceptance.  He's a good boy, too.  These schools are so selective that even if you have amazing SAT scores and are at the top of your class, you are not guaranteed admission to any of the good schools. At Dartmouth, 2,180 students of a record 23,110-person applicant pool, were accepted for the class of 2016, 9.4%,  I assume the class of 2017 would be about the same.  Hat's off to my boy.  By the way, Dartmouth was the model for the movie Animal House in the early 1980's. My only worry, conservative pundits Dinesh D'Souza and  Laura Ingraham are alumni, not my favorite people! But so is Kirsten Gillibrand, our liberal Senator from New York.  How different his experience from mine, where there was no worry about being accepted to college, Ohio University, and I had no thought of going out of State, in fact, I only remember  a few students out of a thousand that went East to college back in 1961.

We had salmon,  brown rice, and garlic spinach for dinner and watched Moonrise Kingdom, a movie neither of us liked much though it has gotten quite good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.  Perhaps we just don't like the Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tannenbaums), the film makers type of humor, quirky and understated, its charm and preciousness.  It's even difficult to explain the story and it's hard to believe that anyone would have bought the pitch and invested money in a movie with this plot.  At a boy scout camp, the nerd (also an orphan) ends up running away from the pack, with a girl he has met, during a storm, raising alarm amongst the other campers, the pack leaders, and the girl's family. Enough.  Watch it if you want more.

I hope to begin yoga this morning at Eight Limbs Studio in Lakewood and get back on track with my exercise and yoga-ing.