FRB tour and what I'm watching

[rowanf]

Despite having a great massage from Tina on Thursday I am incredibly sore in my left shoulder blade muscles. Ow. I really shouldn't be typing but I really wanted to catch up my journal a little.

Friday I went up to San Francisco to meet some Where's George folks and do a tour of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. Evidently, in addition to the regular tours which you have to get 10 people together and schedule weeks in advance there is a shorter, drop-in tour at noon on Fridays. Five of us showed up along with three other people and did this tour. The SF FRB has the largest historical US currency collection and it was really cool. They gave us booklets and a CD about the collection but I haven't had a chance to check out the CD yet since I have been trying to stay off the computer.

After the tour we went and had lunch at the Ferry Building and then I showed a couple of the guys geocaching. We got two virtuals and two micros. There is a wonderful statue of Gandhi at the Ferry Building which I had never seen. I felt like I should leave flowers.

I watched the new Bill Moyer's special on Faith & Reason and thought the two people he interviewed for last nights show were fascinating. Jeanette Winterson talked of her Pentacostal upbringing. On of the telling things she said was that her mother asked her when she came out as a lesbian - Why do you want to be happy when you could be normal? That summarized for me a particular worldview beautifully. I'll take happy any day, myself. The other guest was Will Power, a rap artist, who has done an off-broadway version of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes that sounds fascinating. He translated it, "flipped it" into a modern ghetto story. The few rehearsal clips they showed were interesting.

This morning I have been mostly hanging out, reading His Magesty's Dragon and trying to work on my shoulder. I did watch a new documentary DVD on Where's George that came in the mail yesterday. It was made by a Georger who did a lot of interviews at the St. Louis gathering last year (I think). I thought it was well done.

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Comments

Faith and Reason

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoyed both interviewees on Moyer's program--i could neighbor with either--on visit to Goodwill this noon picked up a book entitled "Women who run with Wolves"--intro sounded interesting--will mail it to you--am anonymous because i can't remember my user name or password--love Dad

Re: Faith and Reason

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That book was very popular a few years ago but I never read it.

I had livejournal send you reasoningralph's password. It will come in your email.