1. After enjoying a birthday breakfast of smoked salmon eggs Benedict at Cornucopia, I spent a couple of hours at Delta Ponds investigating areas I hadn't been to before and taking pictures. No rain made the walking and picture taking especially enjoyable.
2. I had read a retrospective of Christopher Walken's acting career in the NYT earlier this fall and had been waiting for the movie "A Late Quartet" which inspired the article. The movie moved me. I admit, I'm ready and easy to move at movies, but, all the same, I was moved and this movie will stay with me for a while. That's really all I ask of a movie: Move me. Stay with me.
3. After some deliberation, I decided I wanted to eat my birthday dinner at Billy Mac's and am I ever glad I did. Billy was grilling the blackened rib eye steak with bleu cheese and caramelized onions, accompanied by garlic mashed potatoes and perfectly steamed fresh vegetables. I had a great time shooting the breeze with Derrick and John, got in a lot of good laughs, and had a great time. Had I gone to the other places I thought about, it would have been a dinner of solitude, which is fine most times, but on this particular evening, I'm glad I went to my neighborhood bar and grill and wasn't alone.
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