Thursday Awoke at six-thirty, the chest not aching (thank you for that) thinking did I want to drive to Safeway and get the flu shot before driving to breakfast and, if I did, when should I set out so I don't arrive too early and have to wait for the restaurant to open? Any way to accurately judge that? Decided I'd get the flu shot after breakfast at the Walgreens pharmacy, judging the timing just a matter of how much time to add to the parking ticket to cover for the Walgreens visit.

The news people had been emphasizing the smoke damage to the lungs with all the fires still burning in the area and so wore an N95 mask for both the smoke and the pharmacy visit for all the people who may be about. Fortunately there didn't seem to be all that much smoke in my immediate neighborhood at least for now.

The plain waffle with sliced bananas and strawberries, fruit cup and coffee, as we've been watching it to lose a couple of pounds (it does go up and go down), finishing up by nine to take the usual set of pictures while leaving the restaurant before driving to the Lakeshore Wallgreens. Were they giving flu shots? Yes they were. Thirty minutes doing paperwork, two minutes for the shot itself, back to the car and home to take a disheveled selfie and settle in here. All done. So much hassle thinking about doing this, getting the flu shot, so little effort and upset in actually getting it done.

Later. We hit eighty degrees today, but it's been cool here inside to the point I haven't turned on the fan and had to put on a jacket for a period this afternoon. It will of course be cooler this evening, but I'm not sure I want to keep the windows open with all that smoke outside. Watched more stuff on the tablet, half listened to the local news that was focusing on the smoke and fire madness. Does not look good.

Evening. Spent more time with the tablet, stopped to watch most of Joe Biden's acceptance speech, wondering if Vera was going to be broadcast as the speech ran over by thirty minutes past eight when the program was scheduled to start. It did and I'd seen it before and didn't want to see it again and so to bed. Life in the pandemic.