I managed to install a Linux virtualisation onto my Mac and felt quite pleased with myself in two ways. I had found a method of creating the Linux that cost nothing and then installed it. Perhaps I could learn how to use Linux now and do all the cool things that Alex from Tailscale demonstrated on his blog.
Maggi had booked two tickets to see The Invention of love by Tom Stoppard. The play featured Simon Russel-Beale and the plays run had been extended. We therefore arrived full of hope. We ate Taro, the Japanese restaurant just up the road from Finchley Road station and walked the short distance to Hampstead Theatre to arrive well in time.
After arriving back from the states I found myself 5lb heavierI left.I decided that I needed to lose some of that extra weight by lowering my intake of both food and drink. As a result neither of us had any alcohol at either the restaurant or the theatre.
I sat down in my seat in the middle of the gallery and waited for the start. My knee stuck into the gallery wall and after awhile began to ache. However this discomfort didn’t stop me dropping off. My mind drifted between full consciousness, half awake and completely out of it. I passed 90 minutes in this condition and gathered that the play centred around the disputes between various scholars on their interpretations of various Roman and Greek classics.
I discovered that the play centred around A E Housman a classicist who lived from the 1870’s through to the 1930’s. I read on Wikipedia he was suspected of being gay. In the first act another actor kept appearing on stage in athletic gear without taking part in the academic discussion, but appeared as a friend of Housman. I suspect the second act featured this relationship more explicitly. We didn’t wait to find out. We left at the interval.
Leaving early happened to allow me to watch the second half of the Arsenal v Manchester United match on the telly. Arsenal won 2-0 due to their impressive set pieces, scoring from two corner kicks.