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June 14, 2018

Sure

Thursday. An uneven night's sleep to say the least, but awakening finally at six-thirty and so running a little later than I'd like on an overcast, but sun on the way morning, comfortably walking to breakfast in a light jacket.

Had the chicken-apple sausage, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee breakfast while reading about Trump-this and Trump-that along with an article about the Antarctic ice sheet and how it's started melting three times faster over this last ten years than it has in the past. But enough. The world's heating up.

The walk home, still running a little later than usual, still with the older and much smaller (but not that much smaller) early model Nikon V1 camera, continuing to find it difficult and unpredictable in getting an in-focus picture. When it shoots well, it shoots (reasonably) well, but so far I haven't sorted out how to make it more reliable. Am I ready to go back to walking to breakfast with a DSLR?

Returning I caught a glimpse and got a couple of (out of focus) pictures of my mystery runner, still going strong with what I'm assuming are daily runs. Am I jealous because I can't pull off a daily walk? Her demonstration of true grit on a Thursday morning when I can't stop yawning? Maybe?

This has now devolved into babble.

Later. A nap, time in bed with the tablet, a brief walk to the nearby apartment house construction site to take a single picture, back to settle into the news on television that starts at two. Always something to break the silence, if only in the background: the tablet, the radio, the television. The quiet times are when I'm out walking with a camera and never listening to anything on the phone to provide distraction.

Evening. I obviously left this to the last minute. Finished the first season of a detective series, a frenetic thing with some interesting features, but one I had the feeling, in watching it, that I'd seen it, at least started it, before. How long before? It's an eight hour series, how can I, after wading through it, not be sure?

The Oakland Sex Workers Protest taken with a Nikon D5 mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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