Catching Up

Long time without posting... Thursday and Friday I just crashed -- doing stuff, trying to do stuff, and then I just crashed...  not really sleeping well the past few days, so when I did get tired... well, I was tired fast, and I just nodded off.  OI.  Funny, because no matter how often I start something... the responses and such come back.  I went through a lot of links and articles, but it seems like there are twice as many more.  Oi!

Yesterday was good.  OC duty in the AM; not too busy, but steady.  The early part of the month was a zoo, so the count was above average, though about 20% of people were those who came twice... not sure if they need the help or are being pains/forgetful.  Could be both; we had produce to give them so they got that.  I will have to place a large order tomorrow, like it or not.  Then I went to the Social Center to help prep for the PF... I helped make 1,000 stuffed cabbage and then some work with the fresh kielbasa.  We could have used more people, but I was there, and I think I was a help -- I even learned (with much repetition!) how to properly roll the cabbages.  Rah.  I had a burned one, and it was pretty good (we only had about 12 that were bad, phew).  Not exactly a huge fan, in general, but they are fairly tasty.

A brief side trip to my sister's to get the gift baskets she prepped and then home to dine/shower, and then off to the Cleveland Cinematheque to see "Faust," the Murnau silent classic from 1926.  It was... interesting.  They had a live musical accompaniment from a metal-type band (silents often had live music but not like this).  It was interesting but very loud.  I arrived late and thus was closer to the subwoofer.  Not quite blasting but...  big crowd (my sister didn't know I like silents and couldn't believe that I would want to go, nor that the place was full) so I had to park and hike.  This is fine, but in that part of the world... as for the film... Quite cool.  Murnau certainly took some liberties with the plot of Faust, if you get my drift but the cinematography and special effects -- for 1926 -- were quite first-rate.

Today was the usual -- church and gym, and then I went to St. Ignatius of Antioch for the West District's annual Mass and Communion breakfast.  Big church -- they properly have a campus -- and it is nice.  Not St. Stan's nice, of course, but nice enough.  (Votive candles were twice as ours, sigh.)  They had a post-Mass Commissioning ceremony for new/old members, which was nice, but...long.  I joked that people join the USMC with less ceremony.  Then off to breakfast/meeting.  Food was good (my spread is better and more extensive) and the meeting was fine, but...truncated.  We only had the gym til 2, so half of the agenda was left... unsaid.  Odd.  I did some networking and chatting.  The parishes there are more connected and have more a tradition of working with each other.  I am trying to get that in my area but... easier said than done.

Democrats sour further on Kamala Harris amid book tour - POLITICO
Long may this continue...  :)

The Worst Air Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of - The Atavist Magazine
Interesting; I had heard of this but wasn't aware of how...extensive the disaster was.

The US Abandoned Affordable Housing. We Can Create It Again.
Interesting though I think the main issue is that we do not build enough housing overall...