2025 Life Logs, Day 73: Taking Care of Business and Trivia Night
Date: Friday, March 14, 2025
Weather: Sunny and Warmer; High Temp 51, Low 36 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
No meetings, no political events, just a day of sitting at my computer taking care of business. Then tonight, I went to the high school for Trivia Night, a fundraiser for their spring play. I really don’t like Trivia because I am terrible at it, but a friend pleaded with me to fill an empty seat, and I just couldn’t say no. Actually, it wasn’t as bad as I anticipated, but I think I embarrassed my oldest grandson, Sam, by being there. I had no idea he would be there, but when I saw him, I went over to say hello. He said he saw my car when he arrived and wondered what in the world I was doing there! I loved that in the first three rounds, my group had more points than his. But in the end, they surpassed us. And it was great that the winning group was a table of Falmouth High School teachers, not students. Their team’s name was “Over Educated, and Under Rated.” Good, healthy, fun competition.
I chose not to go to Hyannis for the Veteran’s protest at the Hyannis rotary today. I really needed a day off. But I am so proud that Cape Cod’s Indivisible groups showed up and made the national news tonight on the Rachel Maddow Show. Rachel believes that the local pushback is working, so she highlights protests from all around the country that are happening every day. Today was our turn. Pushback, pushback, pushback.
And tonight, on Rachel’s show the April 5 HANDS OFF! national protest by Indivisible, 50501, and many other organizations was announced by Ezra Levin from Indivisible. Local groups from all over the country have been pushing for one centralized protest in addition to the protests springing up all over the country. So, plan your trip to DC now for the April 5 event. Until this February, I don’t think I have ever participated in a protest in my life. Now I have been to four in four weeks, and I certainly plan to go to DC. Hope to see you there.
I’ll end with a quote I borrowed from a Robert Reich post:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ? Theodore Roosevelt
