Shelter-in-Place Journal, Day Forty-Eight

After last week’s experience at the Farmers’ Market, we took “leaving early” more seriously and were out of the house just a few minutes after 8. Not all of the vendors were completely set up when we arrived, but the fishmonger was ready – there were only four people in line, and she had plenty of all kinds of fish.

I was planning to buy tuna (which had run out last week while we were on line), but was pleasantly surprised to find fresh local king salmon available, so I bought that instead, and we had it for lunch – yummy! I also bought fresh local lingcod for tomorrow or Tuesday.

After yesterday’s TV binge, we didn’t even turn the TV on today – instead, Diane worked on a project for Temple and I worked on things for Toastmasters (so we still got lots of screen time, just smaller screens).

Shelter-in-Place Journal, Day Forty-Seven

Frankenstein and the Creature

We don’t binge-watch TV. I think we may have watched as many as three episodes of The Good Place at a time when Jeff first introduced it to us, but that was our limit.

Today, however, we watched both versions of the National Theatre’s production of Frankenstein – one with Benedict Cumberbach as the Creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Frankenstein, and the other with the roles reversed. They’re available on YouTube until May 7th, and I recommend both. If you have to choose one, I’d take the one where Jonny Lee Miller is the Creature – it was just a little bit tighter.

We also attended Shir Hadash’s Zoom Torah Study and watched last night’s Shabbat message and last night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

And we even started listening to the selections in the NYT’s “Five Minutes to Make You Love Opera” playlist.

I had hoped to watch Young Frankenstein tonight, too, but we ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow.

Lest I make us sound like total couch potatoes, I should note that we did manage to hit our step and calorie goals for the day – it was a nice day to wander through the neighborhood!