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I got invaded by a virus.

And for a while, it raised all hell with my computer.

Things seem to be better now but for some reason, typing this blog is very slow.

Well, the typing isn't slow, the composition lags behind. What shows up on the screen.

Of course, some of this could be at Blogger.

Hard to tell.

For a day I was thinking of quitting the blog.

But now, I am having second thoughts.

A reaction to difficulty. Fight or flight. In this case flight.

But, my heart says "not so fast".

"You have done this for a very long time. Don't quit now."

So, here I am.

I had fun yesterday watching a DVD called Lunch which is simply a slightly edited video of a regular lunch of old television writers and stars. In their eighties.

Carl Reiner and Sid Caesar the exceptions, performers. Caesar sat at the head of the table.

The talk was great fun to listen to and, of course, to watch.

Caesar is still on his game and in reasonably good shape. Held his own and no one was giving him any edges. Quite wonderful. Brotherhood. I loved it.

Today, I watched the first half of Truffaut's's The Last Metro (1980) with Catherine Deneuve and Heinz Bennent with the young Gerard Depardieu.

A theater company shuts down during the occupation and the Director goes underground by living in the Basement.

I have seen it before. It is quite good.

It is the last of the Deneuve series that I have been watching and was still hard to get, a long wait, with Netflix.

So.

Here I am at the end of this post and the Blogger site is spinning along with my typing.

More proof that one should not give up. The world will catch up sooner or later.

In this case, during one blog post.

I am sorry to report that I missed two days of postings. A first I think.

Well, there was the time I quit doing this months and then couldn't stand it any more.

Besides, I have an excuse for Friday. We had a budget meeting for the condo association between the chair, the manager and me. While we were at it, we took a crack at a first draft budget for the next fiscal year.

Roadwork ahead.

We also hired a consultant to do the required assessment of value for our infrastructure.

The Association owns the shell, roofs, the open space.

We also have to deal with the real fact of the drought. Our grass is dying. But we are committed, indeed required to cut from the previous levels by 35% and we have done it. Favoring the bushes and trees. Let the grass go. No seeding this year. Bermuda can take it, we think. The rye is an annual.

In any case, we are good members of the community. Because we have to be, and we want to be.