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December 12, 2019

World

Thursday. Another to sleep by ten to awaken then at ten minutes to six, take the blood pressure (113/64), take the blood pressure med along with the rest of the meds and head out the door to see if it was raining. It wasn't and so walked instead of driving to breakfast, arriving before seven to the find the restaurant open and people inside. Good. Settled in with the papers.

The chicken-apple sausage, eggs over medium, pancakes, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, to finish up by a quarter to nine and set out for home. Still overcast, but no rain and so on to take a picture across from the Grand Lake theater of a motorcyclist waiting on the light, a very wet flower below the Lakeview school, another line of Lyft scooters near the lake and of the two men working on the roof of the house below my apartment. Good.

Home to take the selfie and boot the computer to work on yesterday's entry. The computer booted, but the trouble I've been having recently with the software hanging when loading, went totally over the top and crashed everything this morning and try as I might I couldn't get it fixed until well after noon. Still not sure what's happening there, but so far everything's been OK now through the rest of the afternoon.

Later. I've been following the British election, their polls not closing until two o'clock here, and it seems the Conservatives and their promises on Brexit have blown away Labor and Brexit is now clearly going to happen by January 31st. It's not easy to put the British Brexit politics in some kind of perspective and how it may or may not be analogous to our situation here.

Otherwise an afternoon of television with a break or two to settle in with the tablet, fuzzy headed enough after the delays to avoid writing here. Sounds familiar.

Evening. The local PBS stations are raising money at the moment and so they broke into tonight's Vera episode about twenty minutes in at which time I bailed for bed to follow along on the tablet with the British election on The Guardian and to listen to the BBC News that came on at nine. Seems they'd been reporting on the election straight through. The Conservatives, with all 650 districts reporting, had won with 365 seats, a clear majority landslide. A little nervous about what that says for the world.

The photo up top was taken in December 2017 of the city workers strike at the Oakland City Hall with a Nikon D4s mounted with a 24-120mm f 4.0 VR Nikkor lens.


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