Tuesday To sleep just fine, but awakened early with the sore chest again, listening to Democracy Now! on and off until getting up at the usual time to set out walking to breakfast under partly cloudy skies, arriving at the usual time to enter the dining area, turn on the lights and settle in with the papers. Felt pretty good for the uneven sleep and so, uneven or no, I seem to have gotten in enough time.

The oatmeal, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, not ordering the toast as the weight has been acting up and we're determined not to let it get out of hand, finishing well after nine to walk home under sunny skies, they're saying the temperature will reach into the mid-seventies later before dropping back into the sixties through the weekend. Not warm enough yet to make my dressed for the cold sweater and jacket uncomfortable.

Took the selfie in the lobby and settled in at the computer to put all this together. A mindless morning exercise to keep me busy? Entertained? It's close to noon right now and the brain is a bit fuzzy, fuzzy enough to not want to do the thinking necessary to be even modestly ambitious with the writing.

Later. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at one hundred and one. When Mr. B and I first entered San Francisco in the summer of 1969 on our way to Mexico we first drove through the Haight-Ashbury to see what it looked like (at five in the morning) and then on to the City Lights Book store to look through its windows, two legendary locations we both wanted to see, one the home of the Freaks, the other the home of the Beats. The start of an adventure that changed both of our lives. One hundred and one years. Not a bad life.

Evening. Spent more time following the news than lying down with the tablet this day. Watched most of an hour long television program on Al Capone, learned things I hadn't known about him before and then went to bed afterward just before eight. Listened then to a radio program on sleep, what they know, what they don't. Nine o'clock by then and so lights out early thinking about what I'd just learned.