New Year

    I had to give up on my French Culture Meetup because nobody was coming.  Instead, I became co-organizer of Meaningful Genuine Connections (my seniors group), which I renamed GTA 60+ Meetup.  Last Saturday we had lunch at the Wake a Boo restaurant, and the Saturday after next we'll go to the Tango Palace Coffee House. (In a couple of weeks I'll have an online event where we'll each talk about any book that interests us--I'll discuss Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, which I read the year before last.)

    At Christmastime I intended to bake gingerbread, but couldn't find any molasses so I made something with honey instead. (It was still pretty good.)

    On New Year's Eve I saw The Brutalist with John P. (I usually stay home on New Year's Eve, but traditions are made to be broken.) It's pretty good but requires patience.  Midnight struck as I was coming home and I got to hear the fireworks.

    The History Salon I go to on Sunday afternoons is now discussing French history, all the way from the Revolution to the Fifth Republic.

    My History Meetup will be discussing the Peloponnesian wars next month, so I've started reading Jennifer T. Roberts' The Plague of War:  Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece.

    On YouTube I've discovered Mistare Fusion's podcast, all about the manga and anime series Dragon Ball.  He goes into remarkable detail about the narrative. I've also found a channel Keeping Walt in Disney, with decades of episodes of The Wonderful World of Disney! (That was one of my favourite TV shows in my youth.) I've been watching some Ludwig Von Drake cartoons...