2am to almost 8:30 with a lunch. napped for a bit, went to ralphs at hastings ranch and picked up some lunch meat, 2lbs of strawberries and some chips. made sandwiches at eaton blanche, napped some more but woke up with some serious sweat. went over to target and parked underground sans shirt until i cooled off. got to huntington by 2:30-ish, surfed the web until my 4-6pm, who'd had a comparable day having played baseball for 6 hours from 8am-2pm. i took it easy on him and he did pretty well.
tried to get kimbap at hmart until i saw the length of the checkout lines. headed over to arcadia park with laptop on roof of car, reading, and watching some people trying to teach a girl how to play volleyball. she's actually progressed a bit with her passing, even though she's moving on the court with her arms locked. they've got a net set up with a giant net target for passing. they've set it up pretty high at a couple of feet above the net. i miss volleyball, but i know i'm too old and too out of shape to play in a high level game, and i'd drive all the other players nuts by being the weak link; it would be selfish for me to want to play.
i find myself thinking about something C.S. lewis said in that the virtue of love has been replaced by unselfishness. applying this to volleyball, i would be unselfish by not demanding that i play and bring down the level of the game, while love would be shown with forbearance. being unselfish leads to self-denial - which is not the same as denying self.
i want another cold drink. i can go get another polar pop - or i could get a couple of mcdoubles and ask for a cup of ice. i had contemplated getting something at BMCC but they just closed a few minutes ago at 8pm.
i promised to review natalie's latest short story about the tango. i guess i'll do mcd's and head out to the fedex parking lot and type on my roof so i don't waste battery on the keypad.
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