yankee from olympus

 i went on mutiple walks throughout the day. during the first one i went past a little free library and selected a thick book from it, 'yankee from olympus'. it is about oliver wendell holmes, the supreme court justice. it is hardcover and has a built-in bookmark, a ribbon. already flipped to the part about his military service during the civil war. and it is in there, where he says 'get down you fool' to president lincoln. during the fourth and final walk i saw police cars with their lights on, going to a nearby nightclub. 9 cars in all, some city police and some state troopers. all told from these walks i found 82 cents. it worked just fine staying in for much of the day. i checked the paper and was pleased to find some good programming on. in the early afternoon it was a documentary about football great john madden. i learned something from it, how he taught a class at berkeley about football after he was done coaching the raiders. and how it took a while to get elected to the hall of fame. it was on before a football game on fox, that i didn't watch. in the evening it was boxing matches on fox, same as last weekend. these were from newark, NJ, and apparently the first boxing card in the USA on christmas since 1969. I saw four this time, one of them had joey spencer in it. saw him fight at the minneapolis armory in 2018. his fight ended by knockout in the 5th round. three of the four shown ended early. the third was a split decision. one ended in the first round, spencer's was the first shown. the fourth was scheduled to go 10 rounds and was called midway through the 10th, a TKO. after i got back from the first walk of the day i put in a DVD, the one with two charlie brown christmas specials on it. i know the first one well, but the second, 'christmas time again' was like watching it again or the first time. such as seeing 'handel's messiah' in it, something i had just seen recently. there are some more holiday DVD's i can watch tomorrow. of course i liked watching some more of 'yule log' but i heard some songs more than once when i would watch it a little at a time. i had two turkey dinners today, as well as blueberry pie with strawberry ice cream. i drank beer with both, a millstream and a bauhaus, both craft brews. so now there are 3 beers waiting.