Sun Goes Down on Another Nail Clip --- Day 7/336

Walk: Fillmore
Distance: 8 blocks, Yoga

                              

                                                                            

The B Word --- Days 7/334 & 5

Walk: 1. No (Cold & Rain & Wind, all day)  2. Later (but still cold and showers)
Distance: 1. 0 and Too Boared, ooops, bored to do yoga 2. 3.4 Forced miles, Forced yoga

Constant (seeming) rain and cold, no new movies, closets capered, book group books read, basically All rainy day projects completed.  No matter how she looks at it Ciwt is B-O-R-E-D.  (She'll recover...)

Keepers???? --- Days 7/331,332 & 333

Walk: 1. Union Square Returns
          2. Keeper Clothes Fittings
          3. Put Dress Up Section Together and To Rest
Distance: 1. 5 Miles and Yoga   2.  3 Miles and Yoga   3.  Rainstorm and Yoga

Sorry for the CIWT gap but Ciwt was busy making her final decisions about all those dresses she ordered on line.  Sadly, the ones above had to go back.  But now they are available for You!

In A 2-Month Tizzy --- Day 7/330

Walk: Hood Errands Before Tech Appt

Distance: 3 Miles

Preparing for Techman Visit and Somehow Taking Selfie

Really, how does Ciwt's Tech Hero do it?  She's good at preparing a slew of questions between visits.  Then when he arrives, she's excellent at handing him the list of questions all neatly typed. "Oh, Good," he says. "Let's get started.  Explain what you mean by the first question.."

This is when Ciwt starts falling apart. Of course she has totally forgotten the circumstances of that question or how to reconstruct the problem she would like solved and/or how to explain it in a way that makes sense to him.  Then many minutes go by during which we try to arrive at some approximation of what she is asking him to work on.  Because he is nice and patient, he and Ciwt usually get there, and then he solves her problem.

"OK, now what about your second question....."  Question after Question the process repeats.

And the wonder is he Does solve them - every one - all the while remaining nice, kind, patient, even fun.  At that point Ciwt is always appreciative even while her brain is spinning in her head. 

This happens about every 2 months...

All the (Hopefully) Pretty Dresses --- Day 7/329

Walk: No
Distance: Yoga, Dresses On, Off, On, Off

Yay, Boxes to Play In!  

Since joining her club Ciwt has had need for a few new dresses but no desire to spend much for them.  Especially because the small fancy dress part of her closet contains old, mostly unworn and dated garments she remembers spending a pretty penny for.  Enter the internet and the deep discount departments of famous stores.  After spending hours on line pouring through pictures she located a few she will give a try.  They arrived today- in a driving rainstorm.  Perfect weather for the trying on ordeal.  Fingers crossed.

Rainy Days, Movies and Bowl Game --- Day 7/328

Walk: Cinema Club (Woman At War)
Distance:  2 Miles

An excellent film from Iceland with a terrible title.  Ciwt suggests ignoring the latter and going to the film when it comes to your local theater.  It was also an excellent prelude to the annual Men At War in Super Bowl LIII.

Fun (For Some) After the Storm --- Day 7/327

Walk: Crissy Field
Distance: 3 Miles, Wee Yoga

      Crissy Field Beach Usually

                                             Crissy Field Beach Today (is Where?)

The Bay Area had a big blow rainstorm last night so Ciwt went down to Crissy Field today to check out what Mother Nature had wrought.  Turned out basically nothing except an enormously high tide that disappeared the beach and created huge, pond size puddles on the walkway.  Those latter in turn attracted ecstatic dogs and children frolicking, splashing and getting completely soaked. Near them were owners and parents yelling "Stop! Get Out of the Water! No!"  To no avail, of course.

Revival --- Day 7/326

Walk: AMC Metreon Theater (They Shall Not Grow Old)
Distance: 2.6 miles, Yoga


     AMC Metreon, Theater 12 Entrance

Walk right in, sit right down, go back 100 years to the front lines of World War I in Peter Jackson's  movie They Shall Not Grow Old.  Like many people Ciwt has studied World War I history and read some of the greatest books about it like All Quiet on the Western Front, The Guns of August, Birdsong.  So she felt she had some mental picture of that war.  Until today when Jackson showed her the vast difference between intellectually knowing and actually witnessing.

Through sheer love, dedication, technical innovation and peristence Jackson took old WWI film footage and 1960's interviews with survivors 'as is' (ie, shrunken, scratched, nearly black, barely audible and other ravages of age), applied virtual technical wizardry and came up with a coherently  plotted, well paced, narrated, scored 'contemporary' documentary.  Thanks to him, You Are There, looking directly at and listening to the young soldiers, horses, trenches, battlefields of World War I.  The horrors are all there but handled in such a way that you don't look away, and there is so much more: dailiness, humor and play (yes!), nobility, duty among them none of it sensationalized.   You Are Engrossed, and your horizons and humanity are vastly, vastly expanded.

Thank you,  Mr.Jackson .