The Visible Woman...September 27, 2003

FFP still works and the world operates on a certain schedule. Saturdays feel like Saturdays.

You might think that if you were retired, every day would be Saturday. Not so.

College football is usually on Saturday. When there is a Longhorn game, especially a home game, you always notice it. FFP likes to watch on TV and for home games there are crowds in restaurants before and after and there can be traffic jams. And you see a little more burnt orange on the street.

Since FFP still keeps office hours Monday through Friday, my interactions with him are different on Saturdays. We may actually be in the gym at the same time, for example.

Today I stayed at the gym while he went to a home show to do a little scouting for his trade show client. I showered up, did things around the house like starting the laundry, and then we went to eat at NeWorlDeli. I was remarking on the crowd. Then I remembered that the game would start at 6PM and so people were out and about, having a late lunch in campus haunts. When we decided to stop off at the BookStop next to Central Market, it was hard to find a parking spot. Not that unusual for Saturday, but especially a game day.

Saturday, September 27, 2003

A Journal from Austin, Texas. A Project of LBFFP Stealth Publishing.
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my dad and a family friend at a big outing for his last day at age 86	that Saturday feeling FFP still works and the world operates on a certain schedule. Saturdays feel like Saturdays. You might think that if you were retired, every day would be Saturday. Not so. College football is usually on Saturday. When there is a Longhorn game, especially a home game, you always notice it. FFP likes to watch on TV and for home games there are crowds in restaurants before and after and there can be traffic jams. And you see a little more burnt orange on the street. Since FFP still keeps office hours Monday through Friday, my interactions with him are different on Saturdays. We may actually be in the gym at the same time, for example. Today I stayed at the gym while he went to a home show to do a little scouting for his trade show client. I showered up, did things around the house like starting the laundry, and then we went to eat at NeWorlDeli. I was remarking on the crowd. Then I remembered that the game would start at 6PM and so people were out and about, having a late lunch in campus haunts. When we decided to stop off at the BookStop next to Central Market, it was hard to find a parking spot. Not that unusual for Saturday, but especially a game day.
JUST TYPING The Saturday feeling. Casual. Fall football. Shopping. Brunch.
		Food Diary. *breakfast (well it was at about 10:30 or 11)* two small bowls of salad with cheese. broccoli and onion and some ranch dressing. *lunch (1:30ish)* salad with feta and tomatoes and carrots and a scoop of curried chicken salad *dinner (4:30 or 5)* a little cheese and a couple of crackers and some sliced, smoked turkey and a Cherry Coke *snack (around 11:30)* a ounce or two of cheese I had a beer at the intermission of the play, too. I really, really must eat better. Soon.
		Time flies.... We saw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Zach Scott Theater. Wow. It was three hours long, but fabulous. Albee went inside the four heads in a way that's unimaginable to me. The actors soon got Dick and Liz, George and Sandy out of my head from the movie. Quite a feat because I've watched that movie several times and it is fabulous acting. I spent about two hours getting to the gym and getting worked out. I spent time creating a page-a-day in this silly journal. I went through stuff in my closet.

		Reading. Two Sides of the Beach by Edmund Blandford. Read on bike. Read most of the day's The New York Times.
		I've almost caught up the journal which, as the careful reader knows, is the base line for all my non-writing.
		Exercise thirty minutes on recumbent bike Upper body routine. thirty minutes on recumbent bike (again) abs, stretches
	.	Pretty upbeat and feeling fine.