I can relate. I've been seeing a urologist and a nephrologist for my old man problems. I'm actually making progress. The urologist said that counterintuitively, drinking more water can help with the urgency and frequency problems. It took a while to learn to drink more every day, but yes, he's right. I learned I can keep drinking throughout the day by adding some oolong tea to my water. I don't mind that it's very diluted.

Yesterday I went to a seminar at Brooklyn College (BC). BC is fairly far from me. I looked at my options. Going by subway takes about an hour. Riding a bike takes the same. Taking my own bike involved some risk since I don't know the neighborhood (Flatbush) very well. Combining that risk with the forecast for rain, the subway made the best choice for getting there. That went fine.

The seminar ended up being targeted to an audience that I am not part of, and I knew there was that risk. It's OK because I have a bunch of reading and writing to do, and I can do that anywhere, so I visited a local coffee shop and a local library. I got to soak in the culture of that neighborhood.

In the evening, my spouse and I were attending a concert, also in Brooklyn. I decided to get there by Citi Bike, but there are no Citi Bike stations near Brooklyn College! I ended up walking a lot to get to the nearest Citi Bike station. Most of Flatbush appears to be very poor. A sign of that is an abundance of storefront churches.

The Citi Bike station was near Prospect Park, one of NYC's iconic parks well known for many things, including riding bikes. I don't get there often, so I felt lucky. At the end of my journey, the northern end of Prospect Park, is the central Brooklyn Public Library. What an impressive building! We don't make 'em like that anymore.

I met up with my spouse, and following our plan, we met up with some protestors at Grand Army Plaza and held up protest signs for the passers by to see. We got a lot of smiles, waves, and honks, and some stopped to chat or take pictures.

We were in the Park Slope neighborhood, lovely and a bit posh. That's where the concert venue was, a place called Shapeshifter Lab.

We got home by subway, another reason it's good I didn't take my own bike. Bike shares are great because once you dock a bike, you leave it forever. I've taken my bike on the subway to be with the person I'm with, but it's really annoying.