The question has been asked about how do we entertain ourselves in the evening … (no, we won’t go there …)
The easiest, and most obvious, answer is that we read … freed up from the weekly pressure of keeping with The New Yorker, we can actually read books that have been piling up. And, when we have Internet connectivity, there is the endless “reality show” drama of the daily news cycle on The New York Times and Washington Post.
Sometimes we are able to pick up local television channels with our antenna and even more rarely, we are able to get the local PBS channel and stay in touch with our PBS Newshour friends and their reporting on the national and world events.
Paul is an avid crossword puzzle enthusiast … and he brought along a book of Will Shorz’ best (read hardest) New York Times crossword puzzles. While we have solved a few of the puzzles, we were daunted by the complexity and obscurity of several of the puzzles … the book has not found its way out of Paul’s briefcase recently … I think that it is “dead to us”.
Scrabble has also been a part of our nighttime entertainment … two individuals locked in competition, like center court at Wimbledon, and Paul so soundly beat me last time that I have not proposed any re-match recently. I suffered silently as I had such wonderful word opportunities with
double and triple value (“quince” and “zeros”), only to watch Paul snatch up my possible opportunities … he was an admirable competitor and my loss humbling.
We have a guilty pleasure of watching the first season of Mr. Robot … not a television series for everyone … but if watching a paranoid, likely schizophrenic, cyber security expert lead an Occupy Wall Street-like movement against an evil corporation sounds like entertainment, this is a fast moving, visually exciting drama.
And, if one is in Brigham City, Utah at a KOA campground, one goes to an ice cream social … not to be sociable, but to bring more ice cream back to Bambi … to watch the last episode of Mr. Robot.
Bambi advises us to get a new crossword puzzle book and … to me, to work harder at Scrabble …
Shout-out to Bruce: A shout-out to our friend, Bruce, who is the only person whom we have ever met who can claim the distinction of having published a crossword puzzle in The New York Times … so impressive!
Shout-out to Trudy: A shout-out to my sister, Trudy, who is caring for our house and plants and making it easy to be out on this adventure. Many thanks! You made it possible to travel with peace of mind!
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I'm playing catch up here but thanks for the shout out!!
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