Thursday. To sleep after ten to awaken briefly at five-thirty and then for good at six-fifteen to take the blood pressure, find it “reasonable” and then go back to bed and listen to the rest of Democracy Now! before getting up and walking to breakfast under clear skies, arriving to enter the restaurant's indoor dining area, turn on the lights and settle in at my table with the papers.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee, finishing up before nine to set out for home, the temperature not so bad bundled up in the heavy winter coat. Many fewer flower photographs this time, it is winter after all, to arrive, take the selfie in the lobby, take the blood pressure again (still OK) and settle down at the computer to finish yesterday's entry, post, process the morning's pictures and start here by ten-thirty.

Things to do today. Let's see if I get them done.

Later. A phone conversation with the landlord saying I'd be moving for good and learning the thirty day notice wouldn't be given until February 1st and so I had two months to get packed and moved to Oregon. Which is good, I can use the extra time. Now to line up a moving company to schedule the move, which I'll do on Monday. Don't know how much pressure the local moving companies are with COVID, the high real estate and rent prices in the Bay Area, but we'll know on Monday.

Relieved after the phone call. Puttered around a bit starting on sorting things out here, throwing out stuff I won't be taking with me, before quitting and heading for the bed and the tablet, starting a series on Prime and continuing with it through the entire afternoon (less breaks to listen to the news). Stressful, this having to move business, perhaps more stressful when I'm there in Lake Oswego without restaurants or stores or a lake nearby within walking distance. Nice to be with my sister and nephew, though.

Evening. Stayed up long enough to check out Vera at eight, one I (of course) had seen before, they've been repeating these episodes it seems forever now on PBS, bailed after fifteen minutes and went to bed, turned out the lights after the nine o'clock news on NPR and managed to get to sleep not long after ten. Tired and dropped off to sleep without a problem.