Thursday, January 23, 2020

January 17, 2005

Dreamed of looking up the non-existent French word "giraille" after learning of a late 19th-century French politician called Desgirailles; finding out that it meant "grill"; wondering about the 1871 Paris Commune and deciding that the leaders were crazy. (I'm really not sure.)

Read some Steve Canyon adventures in Menomonee Falls Gazette.  Dated.

Went to Mission:  Possible and submitted my application for their Common Room support group.  Then I went to the Geneva Centre and finally got my membership fee paid.

Dinner was roast chicken.

The choir started the Bach chorus "Crucifixus." For the first part of the rehearsal I was one of only two baritone-basses present. (Several others were delayed by performing at a funeral mass.)

Read a 1930s story from the comic strip Red Ryder.  The villain was so mean that he wanted to kill all the town's dogs, so Red Ryder's young Indian pal Little Beaver formed a posse of vigilante children who wrecked the villain's gambling hall...

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