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Inaugural activities and holidaze are done! Long live the king (MLK and otherwise)! Have a PD dance class and resistance training session tomorrow. Will liven up the three day sleep fest that I've completed. Today was better--I got up somewhat earlier and didn't nap in the afternoon (had a green tea latte to make that happen). Weather has warmed up some and it's been more moderate at night.

I bumped into SB one of my chiropractors in my (now seemingly) distant past. I learned from him that GD (another of my past chiro people) has passed away. He died of colon cancer! He was still fairly young (vis-a-vis myself) and I was surprised and saddened to learn that it had happened. We grow old, we grow old, and slowly find our final ways (maybe not so slowly for some).

I listened to an NPR broadcast of City Arts and Lectures of a interview with the guy who has made MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). The content reminded me that I can add a MBSR component to each day's regular activities. So be it! And let it be so! I could take a series of sessions on the technique at my medical provider. Will investigate!

Not a lot of progress over the long weekend in getting everything in order for a likely move and preparation of tax returns. Sleep took over and helped me stay inactive. But it's all on my to-do list and tabulation.

Watched a German film (that I had seen about two years ago)--The Ninth Day. It was about a priest from Austria who was put in the situation where could save the lives of other priests by writing a declaration said the church was aligned with the Nazis. He was given nine days "leave" from Dachau to visit with his bishop and create the declaration. He was pulled several ways (by his family, the Germans, his conscience, and his church). It's a tight film (all done in nine days on the screen) that the director said was modeled somewhat after The Trial of Joan of Arc film.

GH punted today on the Baker book we've been reading. It was getting very interior and tedious--not as free, open and funny as some of his other works. I agreed that I had read enough before we would have to jump into a couple of really lengthy chapters.