Have a beautiful one, if you honor the holiday.

The weather is going to be perfect today (except for more of that awful wind), so I made a lunch reservation to take my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client to the clubhouse restaurant at the golf course today!

He’s going to be so excited.

He “knows” we’re going there today, but I’m pretty sure he’s forgotten by now.

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Well.

Yesterday wound up being REALLY rough on me, gang. It was just a really hard day.

I did everything I needed to do, but it was a struggle. All day.

And, naturally the weather report was wrong — it was just a gorgeous day, weather-wise. So the drive down to see my dad’s grave would have been really beautiful. But the stress would have been too much. I could barely walk across the kitchen yesterday, let alone drive for 6 hours in heavy traffic.

I guess I’ll plan on a trip down there when it isn’t such an emotionally loaded day.

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Last evening was nice, though.

During dinner, I watched “Ludwig” — they’re up to episode 6 now. What a great show, gang!! Valerie in Brooklyn and I are both watching it, and we text each other the moment we see that a new episode has been uploaded to britbox.

If you missed the trailer that I posted before, here it is again:

And after I went up to my room, I got in bed and watched another great film on Metrograph.

Another one from director Tsai Ming-Liang. Just unreal, how strange, quirky, humorous, and creepy it was — with pop songs!! “The Hole“. From 1998. (Taiwan) Again in Chinese with English subtitles, but there’s not a whole lot of dialogue.

One of the female character’s “dream” scenes:

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds played Brooklyn last night and it looks like it was off-the-charts. People were uploading photos and videos all night long.

Tomorrow they play Detroit. You can buy tickets here!

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And here’s this, just because:

Keith in the 1980s (oh, and it turned out that yesterday was his daughter Angie’s 53rd birthday. I can’t process that she is 53. ) Anyway:

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And on the kitten front–

It’s definite now that both back legs of the little grey kitten did not develop. So I will keep it. Somehow we’ll figure out how best to take care of it in a house full of rather rambunctious cats.

And, sadly, it looks like the calico kitten only has one developed eye. The other one is not completely open and definitely has something wrong with it. But it’s a beautiful kitten.

I’m trying to let things happen however life is supposed to happen, gang. I can’t figure out what else to do but simply allow. At least all of them can hear now! They are reacting to the sounds around them. They are 14 days old today.

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And I think that’s it for today, gang. I gotta scoot.

Have a blessed Good Friday, or just a “good” Friday, as the case may be –wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya.

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The coincidences continued yesterday.

Midday, I discovered that Eddie Cochran (see yesterday’s post) who was killed in a car crash in England, died on April 17th, 1960.

After I saw that, I was sort of creeped out so I took the CD out of the player.

This morning, I went back to the Best of Neil Diamond. So here’s this, because it is basically impossible to feel sad, creeped-out, fearful, or otherwise unhappy when this song is on, anywhere in the world.

“Sweet Caroline,” 1969. Enjoy, gang.