fauxklore: (Default)
I've been trying to get caught up on writing here, but I seem to have misplaced my attention span. I finally decided it was best to just write what I could and if that means a slow and not terribly interesting catch-up, so be it.

I played board games (over zoom) with friends at least once. Probably more than once, but I lost track of things.My other standing meetings include my needlework group (over zoom, every other week), my monthly Lithuanian Jewish genealogy mentoring meeting, my Crones and Tomes book club, some planning activities for the Women’s Storytelling Festival, and my Brothers Grimm discussion group, which can mostly be summed up “what a weird story.”

Because our birthdays are only a few days apart (and a few years), Cindy and I have gotten into the habit of going out to dinner to celebrate them. We’ve pretty much settled on going to Elephant Jumps, which is a very good Thai restaurant in Falls Church. There’s some value in having our rituals.

As far as entertainment goes, I already mentioned the movie My Penguin Friend. I also went to Signature Theatre to see the musical Soft Power. This is a very complex show, which is based on a real incident in which David Henry Hwang was attacked on the street. It also goes into Hillary Clinton’s electoral loss and U.S. relations with China more broadly. It was both funny and provocative and definitely worth seeing.

And that's pretty much all I did in September.
fauxklore: (Default)
I am finally more or less recovered from traveling for nearly a month (a 25 day trip, which I left on only a couple of days after a 5 day trip). So I have a lot of catching up to do.

Expect to see several entries over the next couple of weeks, though I also have a short trip (4 days) coming up shortly.

One quick annoyance today had to do with an investment. I have two brokerage accounts for various reasons. There's one stock in both accounts. Both brokerages sent me thick prospectuses (prospecti?) re: an opportunity associated with this stock. Brokerage A had a cover letter telling me the deadline to reply to them was August 16th, but, when I tried to act on it, they told me the deadline had been the 14th. That was in an email they sent, but I assumed the letter that accompanied the prospectus was correct. Brokerage B had a deadline of the 17th, but made it difficult to figure out how to act on it. In the end, I managed to do this with a phone call, but it was annoying that I couldn't do it on their website (which is poorly designed in several ways). This also included the annoyance of having to listen to their ad for a credit card reward program.

Profile

fauxklore: (Default)
fauxklore

May 2025

S M T W T F S
    123
456 78910
111213 14151617
18192021 222324
25262728293031

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 8th, 2025 10:47 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios