Our fishmonger wasn’t at the Farmers’ Market again this week because her family has been hit with Covid. We went to the market anyway to pick up some cherries while they are still in season, and then we took our usual walk through Los Gatos, including a quick trip to Oak Meadow Park where the geese were on the march.

This afternoon, we saw the City Lights World Premiere production of Waiting For Next. It’s the story of two guys who meet in middle school and become best friends – the play follows them from age 12 to 40. It was written for the two actors who performed it, Wes Gabrillo and Max Tachis, and that gave the play a real sense of authenticity. I enjoyed it and recommend it (there should be a video version available from the City Lights website in the next week or two; the play runs through June 19 at City Lights).

This evening, we voted in the California primary election. The actual Election Day is June 7; we plan to be on the Douro River then, so we chose not to wait.

Tomorrow, we get fresh Covid tests to meet the Portuguese entry requirements, since it appears that they won’t accept a US doctor’s Letter of Recovery. US Vaccination certificates are not sufficiently robust to make them happy, either.

Waiting is no fun.

My Learned League season has not been going well so far; I didn’t get my first win until Day 6 (of 25), and I am near the bottom of the standings.

This morning, I opened the “results” email and found that I’d lost yesterday’s match due to changing two perfectly good answers because I had second thoughts.

Gatorade High School Basketball Player of the Year Award winners from 2017 (Megan Walker), 2018 (Christyn Williams), 2019 (Azzi Fudd), and 2020 (Paige Bueckers) all went on to play basketball at what university?

Even though I’m not much of a sports fan, I do page through the Mercury News sports section every day. They cover Stanford women’s basketball well, so I was sure none of those women had played at Stanford. I also knew that Connecticut has had a very strong program for many years, so it was going to be my answer. Then I remembered that South Carolina had won the 2022 tournament, so I wrote them in. I should have stuck with Connecticut.

GEOGRAPHY – A city named Cairo is famous, perhaps above all else, for its location at the confluence of two major rivers. What are the names of those two rivers?

The question was obviously asking about Cairo, Illinois, not Cairo, Egypt, and one of the rivers was clearly the Mississippi. I thought the other river might have been the Ohio, but rejected it in favor of the Missouri because Cairo, Illinois isn’t in Ohio! It’s not in Missouri, either, but that didn’t bother me. It should have.

Learned League is a lot of fun, but sometimes I trip over my own mind. At least I got all six questions right once this week!