2021 mileage: 745.0
At the end or a morning I devoted mostly to piano practice and composition (working on a setting for chorus and piano of Psalm 103), I did a brisk hour on the stationary bike (14 miles), while watching, first, 40 minutes on the YouTube channel of Marianne Kim, the piano arranger whose work I like so much, and then for the last part of my hour, I watched the first episode of My Favorite Martian, a light science fiction comedy (1963-1966) starring Ray Walston and Bill Bixby—the first two seasons were in black and white, and the last season was in color (though I don't believe we had gotten our first color TV yet). I remember it well because it was the show I was watching when the tornado that devastated our area of Michigan struck on Sunday evening (Palm Sunday), April 11, 1965—I remember I was watching it on the living room floor, in front of the TV, and when a Tornado Warning came on (very unusual at the time), I went to warn the adults. I'm glad I did, as later, after it was all over, we found a large plank had been driven right into the spot where I was sitting.
9:15 p.m.
Tonight I did a second hour ride (going more briskly tonight, for 15.8 miles), a lovely scenic virtual ride by Lake Garda (in Italy), which was the locale for a chase scene in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.
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