2020-03-29, Sunday
A perplexing day…
I woke up at seven o’clock, loafed in bed, took a sybaritic shower having yesterday decalcified the shower head and shaved magna cum laude.
I went down to the kitchen and cooked a ham omelet.
It couldn’t have taken me hours, even though I indulged to listen to Baker.
I got to the desk at 10:30!
I thought I’d read the time wrong or had loafed more than what I thought.
Then a phone call cleared up the riddle: goddamn daylight saving time!
Does that mean that until yesterday my days were marked by daylight wasting hours?
That I have to reprint the self-certification to go food shopping?
For certain, now, I know my breakfast didn’t last an hour and a half, which is comforting.
I’m already uncomfortable with longer days that I really didn’t need any more confusion!
What’s more, today would be Grandma Angelina’s birthday, the one who graduated from the Bologna Conservatory: she'd 130.
And here another mystery: the caption says 1938; but my grandmother, here, could not be 49 years old! In this case, who would be the child in her arms?
From the cheeks it would seem to be my mother, but then it would have been taken in 1918 and she would have been 29: more credible…
Were they inaccurate to write a date in those days?
My granddad’s fussiness was proverbial and his father was Austrian, an ethnicity that is not easy going!
And grandma was the daughter of a Lipsiese (what are the people of Leipzig named: Lipsians, children of the lime trees?): she was certainly not sloppy
What an unnerving day…
But I could shave relaxed because, at that moment, there were not all these dilemmas and it was a really satisfying shave.
Sapone PS: Valobra Glicerolanolina
Sapone: Scheermonnik, 1778 Beau Brummel
Pennello: Lab. Villefranche, Salma Hayeck Root briar/ST, 24
Rasoio: Edwin Jagger 89L, Lined Handle
Lametta: Gillette, 7 O’Clock, Permasharp Stainless
AS 1: MilMil, Biensur
AS 2: AAi Monasteri, Balsamo
EdT: Farmacia Vaticana, Acqua di Lavanda
ST: Chet Baker Quartet, No Problem, 1980
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