Friday. To sleep by ten to awaken again at five, blink, and awaken then for good at six, just in time to listen to Democracy Now! as I got ready to walk to breakfast on an overcast, but what they're saying will be another seventy degree day. OK. I'm good with that. Arrived before seven, the restaurant open and so settled in with the papers to see what I'd missed about who'd done what to whom since yesterday afternoon.

The French toast with sliced bananas and strawberries, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, still not down to the one-fifty target on the scale this morning. As good a rationalization as any. Finished up again by eight-forty to cross the street to document the six cent increase in the price of regular to $4.05 a gallon. A story earlier in the paper mentioning the current California prices didn't support the oil companies statement that the price increases were due to refinery issues and that we'd been overcharged by $20 billion this last year. Do you think?

Home to take the usual series of photographs, the sun now bright, lots of traffic on the streets and runners on the sidewalks (well, a few). Home to futz with yesterday's entry while sitting in front of the fan. I think we're heading for warmer weather finally, Toto, here in the Land of OZ Oakland.

Later. A walk to the bus stop of catch a bus to the Broadway ATM, but discovered it wasn't due for another fifteen minutes after talking with two women who were waiting at the stop and who'd called the transit number. It hadn't shown up on the NextBus app when I set out. OK, a walk to the Lakeshore ATM, a yogurt parfait and coffee at an outside table at the bagel shop and then home, getting in a decent walk.

The car battery was finally fully charged late in the afternoon after close to twenty hours, so we're in good shape there. Watched a series on the tablet, did the usual news programs, thought about taking a bath. Nice day, reached the low seventies, they're saying a good weekend ahead.

Evening. Nothing to watch on television, nothing much I wanted to continue on the tablet, to bed after eight, listening finally to the six minute NPR news at ten before lights out.