Wednesday To sleep early enough to awaken at five, blink, and awaken just before six. A good sign. A walk under scattered clouds to arrive at the usual time and settle in alone at way back in the closed off dining room to start on the papers. So far, so good. Feels better than it did yesterday morning.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes (they now call them home fries), toast, fruit cup and coffee, finishing up before nine to walk home with the sun pretty much hidden by the still scattered clouds, taking the usual series of photographs under varying lighting conditions. Felt good, though, the walking, nothing like yesterday's tiredness.

Home to take the selfie in the lobby and start on all this, getting a call from the Honda repair people saying my Element was ready and they were sending a car to pick me up.

Later. The Honda repair shop car came by and delivered me to the shop. The car was done, the repair price was ridiculous and so back home to check out muffler shops in the area to see if they installed catalytic converter protection plates (or whatever they're called). Found one not all that far away and made an appointment for tomorrow morning after breakfast. Now if the Element can survive the night we're in business.

Evening. Watched some really dumb stuff on the tablet early in the evening, nothing on television again, and so to bed after eight to probably get to sleep too soon causing me to awaken too early. Or not.