1985-01 (January)

January 31st, 1985

Dreadful weather predictions, sleet, ice, snow, with temperatures dropping into the low 20’s and upper teens over the weekend. Prepared house- food, fuel, etc.- as for a siege.

Alerted by a last-minute phone call at 9 o’clock, I made it down to the City Council chambers in time for a zoning Commission hearing on the project to build condominiums behind the Tagg house on Parkway just across the street from here. I was one of several speakers in opposition; we won on the final vote, which was 6 to 2 in favor of refusing the petition.

Snow and sleet began coming down while I was on my way home. I stopped for gas and XXXX at Lipssy’s where I got 4 pounds of redfish fillet to cook for dinner tonight. Read an O’Hana novelette, “Ninety Minutes Away.” Either I’d never read it before or else I’d forgotten it in the twenty years since it appeared.