Books I've Read, Shows I've Watched, Stuff I've Done, While Safer At Home

I've read, I've started streaming new shows, I'm just getting back into going to the store for groceries.

This weekend I was distracted by a near miss of a hurricane named after someone with a rather obscure name that started with the letter "I".  Isaias seems more like something I would make up after forgetting a password.  The weather folks down in Miami seem to just point at the map and guess it would be a near miss.

I've bought books from Amazon, I got a book as a birthday present, and bought a book that a high school friend got published by a real publisher.

I'm still working on reading a biography of General Grant who became President Grant.  It's a very long book.  The Road to Character by David Brooks is a series of stories about some interesting folks. 

There was a short course in Black history which included Black Miami by Marvin Dunn, Forty Acres and a Mule by Walter Fleming, and Eight Years In Power by Ta Nehisi Coates. 

Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders and the Blue Fox by Sjon were experimental and read rather early in this stay at home adventure in March.  The latest I've read is a work of non-fiction written by Gary Sosniecki, "The Potato Masher Murder", that relates to his great grandmother's murder around the turn of the century in upstate Indiana.

With my regular watering holes closed I've become interested in what could be called daytime comfort TV shows like "Gunsmoke, 1/2 hour version, Tom Selleck's "Magnum PI", and "Highway to Heaven" which always has a happy ending.  These shows have kind of run their course and recently I have branched out to three mystery series that may have been popular.  Peter Gunn, The Murdoch Mysteries, and The Doyle Republic, that are part of Amazon Prime or IMDB which is also owned by Amazon.

I'm still watching horse racing, and will watch the Cubs when they are one ESPN or the MLB Channel I have.  I've watched the Miami Marlins until they went into lockdown.

And finally I read the Miami Herald,  New York Times and the Washington Post.  I'm walking regularly, eating better, and napping.  And so it goes.  Boring yes, but then I read about folks in my cohort that spent months in the hospital.