Lake/River, Island/Peninsula

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Yesterday was a relatively active day, by the standards of these quarantine times. Mary Beth went out to park we'd never been to, MLK Riverside Park. It's kinda on the riverside in that it's next to McKellar Lake (which is an entity that's not-quite-lake and not-quite-river, a vestigial remnant of river after the Mississippi was redirected around there, so it's something like an oxbow lake but it's still connected to the river on one end). But the park is against a very steep bluff so it doesn't quite get up to the lake except at the harbor, and generally the bluff is very overgrown and forested so it's hard to get a look at the lake except for glimpses here and there through spots of slightly thinner vegetation. We first went to the harbor but there's not really a good place to sit and look without getting down into the midst of the dock and being in the way. But there's a spot kind near there at the end of the trail where you get the best view and get to see the mysterious houseboats and stuff. And see the empty Treasure Island and then the factories across even farther on President's Island. The park area of the park is pretty nice and big with a nice shady path and it was pretty sparsely populated yesterday as we walked down it. I got this cd in the mail: Stephen Mallinder: Pow-Wow. I'd preordered it a good while back on that bandcamp day. It's nice 'cuz they sent it a good couple weeks before the official release date. Yesterday afternoon Mary Beth and I watched Design for Living. I'm not a huge fan of that kind of quick-witty dialog, but there were things about the movie I liked a lot. Later at night I joined in on a zoom game night that Matt hosted. Just a bunch of goofy party games with a bit of the madlib-style fill-in-the-blank and then compete two of people's answers against each other, or some other kind of competitive variation. Mostly things along that sort of line with a few that also involve drawing. It was all fun and goofy.