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October 22, 2018

Ten

Monday. Lights out early enough to awaken at six-fifteen on an overcast and cool morning to get up and walk to breakfast. The no parking signs on Euclid say no parking on Saturday and Sunday, but does allow parking today with a prohibition in place again starting tomorrow through Saturday. So we'll see.

Arrived at the restaurant at seven, open, not having to wait, ordered the plain waffle with sliced bananas and strawberries, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, the weight a little higher than I'd have liked this morning on the scale. A waffle with sliced fruit always tastes good.

A little surprised to finish by eight-thirty, with the way I was pouring over the papers, but the usual walk home under a still quite overcast sky, taking the usual set of pictures on the way home. Nothing on the schedule for the day, but still have to finish the mail-in ballot. Time passes quickly, there's an election coming up.

Later. Some sun poking through the clouds finally and so a walk up the street to take a picture of the construction project, seeing that the gate to the area from which I'm able to shoot was open this afternoon. Comparing the picture to earlier pictures, my thinking there'd been changes when I'd peered through the cloth covered fence yesterday, was dead wrong. Ah, well. Could hear hammers pounding though, so something's getting done.

Out again later to walk over to the lake, the head a little fuzzy/dizzy, the vision not the best. Still, took pictures of the two bicycles, the one welded on a stand, the other under water not more than ten yards away. The lady being eaten by vampire pigeons was an obvious shot. Home, still feeling funky, the sinus-upper palate acting up. Took a double dose of the pain meds. Can't hurt, even though they don't really seem to work.

Watched the news (listened to it drone on in the background). Tried one or two things I'd started on the tablet, but found them hopeless and so took a shot at a nap that didn't work.

Evening. Burned out on the tablet and so turned out the lights and listened to the radio for much too long, turning it off after ten.

The Oakland Museum Dia de los Muertos exhibit yesterday taken with a Nikon D5 mounted with a 24-120mm f 4.0 VR Nikkor lens.


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