STEPPENWOLF

"He who has known the other days, the angry ones of gout attacks, or those with that wicked headache rooted behind the eyeballs that casts a spell on every nerve of eye and ear with a fiendish delight in torture, or soul-destroying, evil days of inward vacancy and despair, when, on this distracted earth, sucked dry by the vampires of finance, the world of men and of so-called culture grins back at us with the lying, vulgar, brazen glamour of a Fair and dogs us with the persistence of an emetic, and when all is concentrated and focused to the last pitch of the intolerable upon your own sick self--he who has known these days of hell may be content indeed with normal half-and-half days like today"--Steppenwolf

My birthday feast was delayed a day because someone was out shopping late, but I didn't mind.

Friday we got a new oven, refrigerator and dishwasher from Costco.  Now I'll be able to bake gingerbread again! We'll also be able to make scalloped potatoes and ham, and chicken curry.

Saturday afternoon I went to the Articled Meetup at the Reference Library.  We were discussing the corona virus, which didn't really interest me but the group looks promising.

At the singing group Sunday, we sang the Broadway show tune "You Gotta Have Heart."

Today I made my bed, only to find out that someone had earlier scattered some odour-eating baking soda on the mattress, so I had to unmake it to remove the stuff! (I should have procrastinated like I usually do...)

Today I finally finished the Thai history book. (In 1978 their top export was tapioca!) So I started reading Hermann Hesse's psychological novel Steppenwolf, translated from German.  I've read thirty-odd pages and it's pretty crazy!