After watching two more episodes of Better Call Saul (we are behind the time – just about to finish Season 2), we went upstairs and I felt a little weird, like a sore throat was coming on. The result was almost no sleep during the night and a bad sore throat this morning. Negative Covid test. No temperature. Cold-eze, and two aspirin, and a cup of coffee. We will see how I hold up today. Plans with the kids canceled.

Last night, we actually went out early, to the Kennedy Center to see old friends Little Red and the Renegades perform from 6 to 7 at Millennium Stage. As Harry Rado said (paraphrase): “We played the Kennedy Center once before, at a folk festival about 30 years ago. This is our triumphant return.” Harry and Tom Corradino (Little Red himself) were college friends of Edie’s, and I have known them more than 40 years. They played at Hannah’s wedding. It was a very festive hour; all were in good shape. Zydeco at its best. Want to hear the performance? You can – on the Kennedy Center website.

Back to the house before 8, picked up dinner at our neighborhood upscale Mexican restaurant (fish tacos, guacamole, and tres leches cake, shared with Michelle and Josh. And a little Prosecco to wash it down. Then Better Call Saul with our friends Rosie and Simon, who have been staying with us for a week while they visit their own 9 month old granddaughter. They are leaving this morning, and unfortunately we can’t give them a proper send off. But they will be back.

So, it’s a new year. I have no real resolutions. I always want to accomplish more than the year before. Hear more music. Get more exercise. Read more books. Etc. Etc.

Happy New Year to all. And to all, a good night.