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Good session of resistance training today! Good to be back on track. I could feel the loss of strength from not having classes for the week the instructor was out of town. I awoke early this morning and ended up going back to bed after eating some breakfast. Left a bit early for class since the apartment renovation is still underway--the noise was noisy!

Watched a movie in the evening--Goya's Ghosts. Well done film with several good actors. About the Spanish/French/British military encounters around the time of the Spanish Inquisition, Napoleon's rise and fall, and the British interventions. The story was centered around the artist Goya and his links to the Spanish nobles and his status with the Catholic church. A monk, played by Javier Bardem, is a patron of Goya until he gets into difficulties with the Inquisition. He flees to France, becomes an advisor to the French, and returns to Spain with the French troops. Meanwhile, there is a substory of him fathering a child with one of Goya's models who has been jailed for heresy. Natalie Portman does a great job of playing three parts--Goya's model, her grown up daughter, and the crazed mother who is released from prison by the French. It's a clever, intricate story of lives and times woven together in the midst of chaos and wars.

Warm today! Supposedly warmer tomorrow! Whatever I can't remember, I forget! My latest thought about everything I seem to be forgetting! Life in the past lane!