03-22-2024 Swim

Went for a swim when the WWC opened, just me, Cathy, and Terry at the start.  I took the pace easy on this day, swam for 2500 yds in about 53 min, with the first 2000 yds done in 42:27.  I may have eaten too much right before I went for my swim.  Felt loaded down and a little queasy, and I had some minor discomfort in my lower back at the start.  It didn't really amount to anything during the swim.  When I got home, I had a second breakfast, then I got to work cleaning out the garage in preparation for letting Emily park her new car in the garage while she's staying here when we go to Europe.  Rearranged the leftover camping stuff into a smaller box and threw some of the stuff away.  I also drained the gasoline out of the lawn mower, will need to stay that way until I find the time to replace the leaking gasket by the carburetor fuel body. Then Ann and I drove over to Sab E Lee to meet Ed and Susan Hume and have lunch.  The food was decent, pretty spicy for Level 2, and the conversation was fun and engaging, as always.  They are heading off to Europe pretty soon too, going to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest.  Janet is married and living in the DC area, while Eddie is living with a girlfriend (it's not a smooth relationship) and her son in Miami Beach.  We stopped at Nordstrom Rack on the way home, and I bought a pair of running shoes to take with me to Europe.  It was a quiet afternoon after that, I took a brief nap.  In the late afternoon, I went out for a walk around the neighborhood for about 40 minutes, didn't track it on Strava.  I started listening to the audiobook A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.  I've read this book before, it's about the trials and tribulations of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a true tragicomedy.  Am considering whether this could be a book club selection.  Then, after a light dinner, Ann and I drove down to La Jolla to see a folk music concert featuring Banjer Dan Mazer, Gregory Page, and Jack Tempchin.  I was tired from the day, and week, of exercising, so I don't know if I got the whole experience.  Gregory Page was really good, but neither Banjer Dan nor Jack Tempchin were good singers.  Banjer Dan's songs were pretty bad, although he can really play the banjo when he is in the groove.  Jack Tempchin wrote Peaceful Easy Feeling, and his other songs were also lyrically good although structurally simple.  He was accompanied by John Barlow Jarvis on the piano, and that guy is just a fantastic musician.  The Athenaeum in La Jolla, where the concert was held, is one of a very few private subscription libraries in the US, themed around music and the arts.  The concert area was a pretty small library room, but we were there early enough to get decent seats.  We had something of a hike from where we parked, and parking in La Jolla is one of my least favorite things to do.