This week’s Sunday Stealing Stealing is Upstream Life.
1. Your favorite sport.
Baseball. Something Kelly said recently resonated with me. “I’ve been paying more attention to baseball the last few years than I had basically from 2000 to, oh, 2015 or thereabouts. In the 90s, I loved baseball, and I almost always had a game on the teevee if there wasn’t something else we were watching (and it was baseball season, of course). While I’m not much for televised sport anymore, I’ve found it appealing to follow sport the way people probably back in the days before television: they read about it!” This is exactly correct for me as well.
2. A quote to live by.
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
3. A city in the US you would like to move to.
Given the vagueries of climate change, it’d certainly be in the Northeast or upper Midwest. Madison, WI or Burlington, VT.
4. 3 beautiful little things in your life.
The door of our house refracts the light so that, most mornings, I see rainbows on the walls and/or the carpets.
My very full built-in bookcase.
Flowers that grow between the cracks in the sidewalk.
5. What made you laugh today?
Some off-the-cuff banter between a nurse and me.
6. A good deed you did today
Apparently, I was very nice to that same nurse, who had a subsequent patient be not nearly so nice.
7. Activities you like to do when you are bored.
I’m never bored. That said, play pinochle, chess, or spades on my phone; read.
8. Are you a procrastinator?
No. The consequences of procrastination make me anxious.
And then
9. Your thoughts about dying
There is about a 99.999999999999999999999999% chance that it will happen. To everything, there is a season.
10. What superpower would you like to have?
Flight, mostly as a timesaver. But also, I always enjoyed my dreams in which I am flying, so much so that I’ve awakened to be very disappointed that it did not actually happen.
11. Top 3 Netflix series
n/a – I’ve never had access to Netflix.
12. Things you want to do before you die
Go through my diary to scope out all of the FantaCo references, which would probably make ADD very happy.
Make sure my daughter is reasonably secure in her life.
Write a book: about what, I’m unsure.
13. Your biggest fears
Humans will make the earth uninhabitable via climate change, war, or another catastrophe.
14. What makes you angry?
Disinformation, which some folks are trying to fix.
15. Do you listen to podcasts?
Three regularly. Coverville; Brian Ibbott has been playing cover songs since 2004. AmeriNZ; Arthur Schenck, one guy, two countries, since 2007. Hollywood and Levine; writer Ken Levine, since 2017.
In the mid1980s I found that watching or listening to a baseball game kept me on an even keel while I did stuff. I got so into it, I collected baseball cards (I was in my 30s, lol). Then the baseball strike happened and ended my desire to get swept up in the sport ever again. That’s okay, I have wonderful memories of Roger Craig’s Giants and Tony La Russa’s As.
Are you ill? I hope you’re ok.
I loved your answer to #4 – the idea of waking up to rainbows is fantastic.
My daughter has COVID, a mild case, but it’s keeping her from going to college.
I have a long list of podcasts that I want to try. I don’t know why I haven’t yet.
#1. I’ve watched a complete baseball game on TV (out of interest – there was a curfew where I was staying – don’t ask!). I finally started getting all the baseball jargon that business has stolen like “Step up to the plate” and “Bottom of ninth” and “Home run”. It’s a little like cricket but far more easy to understand.
:o)
Cheers
PM