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.

It’s still chilly today but the sun is out. Yay!!

And it should stay mostly sunny, at least until my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client and I go to the Peony Bistro for sashimi, and then to the nature preserve by his house!

Then it’s supposed to get cloudy after that, but it won’t matter so much by then.

Yesterday, he said the funniest thing. I couldn’t believe it. I will share the short version here:

Loyal readers of this lofty blog will no doubt recall that he’s not allowed to have vodka in his house because he will drink vodka until he’s absolutely smashed.

His private nurse allows him to have ONE vodka cocktail of his choice if they go out to lunch, but other than that, only red wine is allowed in his house. Mostly because he’s not that crazy about red wine, so a little goes a long way.

Yesterday, we didn’t go out anywhere because it was really cold and gloomy out. So he started in on his desire for vodka, but I reminded him that his nurse says “no” to vodka.

He said he didn’t understand why.

I said, “Because neither one of us wants to come in one morning and find you dead on the floor because you had fallen while you were smashed out of your mind on vodka and all alone. How do you think that would make us feel??”

He grumpily said, “It doesn’t matter.”

Me: “It doesn’t matter?? Well, how would you feel if you walked into the room and found ME dead on the floor because I was smashed out of my mind on vodka and had fallen while I was all alone??”

He: “It wouldn’t matter.”

Me: “It wouldn’t matter if you found me dead???“

He: “No. I would know you had gone to a better place.”

I couldn’t fucking believe him! We both laughed so hard over that.

Okay. Anyway.

A quick kitten update!

They are officially one week old today and their eyes have opened! You can’t tell from this photo, because they’re sleeping — only Mommy’s eyes are open!

Other than that, today would have been my birth father’s 80th birthday. So, happy heavenly birthday to Donald Jennings May. I miss you so much.

In this photo, it’s 1965 and he’s home on leave from the war in Vietnam. He’s visiting his older sister, my Aunt Jo, down in North Carolina.

And that’s it for today.

Enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world!

Oh! Don’t forget– this gets underway on TUESDAY in Boston!! Buy tickets here!

Okay. Thanks for visiting!

I love you guys. See ya!

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What I’m listening to at night right now:

The audio book version of On Union with God by Blessed Albert the Great (1193-1280 AD), translated by Benedictine of Prince Thorpe Priory in 1911. It is read quite masterfully by David Barnes. (1 hr 32 mins.)