Large glasses. Stephen Stills. Science.

Friday morning in the world, you know, except for that International Dateline thing. On the other side of that it's either Thursday or Saturday, and that confuses me. I'm an old man, goddamnit.

Perhaps I should start again.

Friday morning in my part of the world, Northern California, where I have been a suburban hermit now for several years. As a young man I was an urban hermit. I had hermitages in San Francisco, Baltimore, Dallas, New Orleans and elsewhere. Just none in a cave or a hut like one might picture a hermit. I'm willing to do that, but I am an older fellow, and now lack both the time and energy to set it up.

The urban hermitages of my youth were excellent, especially San Francisco. A brilliant main library, many used book stores, art house movies, no need for a car. Everything I owned fit into a footlocker and a duffel bag. Nice. Baltimore's main library was also a gas.

After my 7 or 8 years as an urban hermit I became a family man and a functioning rat in the rat race. I worked in radio and ended up in Davis, CA, which is very suburban. I'm 11 miles from downtown Sacramento, where I was a DJ at several stations across 3 decades. After retirement, and during the COVID shutdown I came to remember how lovely isolation can be, and resolved to continue on as a hermit once again.

A couple of points, in both the suburbs and cities, I do go out. Just not much, and I tend to leave people alone. Groceries, library, and the hardware store when something breaks in my 55 year old suburban house, Stately Jobe Manor. Like that. And I have a dog, so there's walks, grooming, and visits to the vet. As a senior I have my own checkups, too. I just do it and return home.

I used to go to poetry and fiction readings, but now I'm pretty much deaf, so there's no point in that. And there's readings that stream online these days, and I can hear those with my headphones cranked up. I have always written, and a lot was published, but during the shutdown I began focusing on blogging my work. I have a substack here, and now this side-blog, the Yolo County Hermit is for fun. I'm a fun hermit.

A few random items for today.