It was a beautiful day today, so nice that we had lunch outside. The morning was pretty cold, though – we had to be do our workout inside with the trainer (in a big room with no one else there). That won’t be possible next week – Santa Clara County (and much of California) got demoted all the way back to the Purple Tier, which means the only thing open inside the JCC will be the restrooms.

We also watched V for Vendetta in preparation for library trivia on Wednesday (the host promised questions about the movie). We’d seen it when it first came out, but I didn’t remember much of it (hence the rewatch). I am glad I didn’t watch it just before the election – the similarities to today were very disturbing.

After that, we watched another Ted Lasso as a palate cleanser. Neither of us wanted to stop after one episode, but we mustered the willpower and did it – tomorrow is another day, after all!

We had to rush our trip to the Farmers’ Market today to get home for the Shir Hadash Book Club; Diane’s the coordinator and had to handle the Zoom logistics until Rabbi Aron could join in. Today’s book was Jews and Words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger. Their thesis is that knowledge of Jewish texts (the Bible and Talmud, especially) is what kept Judaism going after the exile and that it’s still the most important factor today – even for non-believers like them. The discussion was lively.

In the afternoon, we tested our faith by cutting each other’s hair (to be more accurate, Diane cut as much of her own hair as she could see and trusted me to handle the back of her head). We’re still speaking. :-)

And we started watching Ted Lasso this evening – we pulled ourselves away after two episodes.

All in all, a nice and relaxing day.