The Golden Triangle from the submarine deck.

And thou, when thou dost fast, anoint thy head and wash thy face, so that thou mayest not be seen fasting by men, but by thy Father, who is in secret, and thy Father, who sees in secret, will reward thee. --- Matthew 6: 17-18

I've never understood why we have that as the Gospel reading and immediately turn around and get big black crosses of ash on our foreheads which we are to display proudly all day! Whatever. "Remember man, that thou art dust, and to dust you shall return." Rich and I made it to the 9 o'clock school Mass.

I'd already messed up my Lent. There are two days in the whole year one fasts and abstains from meat... and I started today with a sausage burrito!

The fasting didn't work either. I came home from my walk with low blood sugar, shakes and sweats, and grabbed a fast banananana. Oops. Somehow, though, I don't really believe God's gonna get me.

The sun came out for a short while and I took the dog up and down the streets in the neighborhood, a total of 2.6 miles. There were kids playing basketball, and lots of people walking dogs, one man on foot looking for his friend's new house. The only birds I saw were some magpies and a pair of mockingbirds. I don't think the mockers stay over the winter, so that was a good sign.

Rich went to a Loretto board meeting, and then when he got back we took off for the Jesuit-Sacramento High game. I climbed the bleachers to our favorite top spot, center line, and when I stopped I overbalanced and wrenched my shoulder. THIS is why I wanted Tai Chi, and why I didn't like my teacher. She was more into the martial arts aspect of Tai Chi rather than the health-and-balance part. She would be telling us "You can break their collarbone this way" when all I was interested in was being able to walk across a room without breaking my OWN collarbone!

We had 17 players, and they only had 11. Still, it was a hard-played game and interesting till the 4th quarter. It ended at 86-59, us. Friday night is the league championship game against Christian Brothers, the rival school, so that'll be interesting.

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