Wednesday. Lights out after nine, but an uneven night's sleep to awaken then at five-thirty and listen to the various news programs on the radio to kill time before getting up, take the meds (including the pain meds) and head out to breakfast on a somewhat overcast, but dry morning. They're saying rain later after noon and lasting through Thursday. We need the rain.

The avocado, mushroom and (light on the) cheese omelet, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, as I couldn't think of anything else to order. Read the papers and headed back home, noting this offering (untouched, except for the candy) I'd missed walking to breakfast. This Vietnamese restaurant often puts food out that remains untouched, but I'm always warmed at the idea.

The sinus-upper palate is behaving and, if it takes meds to keep them that way, then meds it will be. Now that they're selling marijuana over the counter, maybe see if they have something that works better without making me stoned. Too stoned. But that's for another day, these pain meds are cheap to the point of almost being free.

Later. It started raining after eleven and so we're here for the day. Or so. Feel pretty good, a sure sign of this is my cleaning the bathroom sink and counter area without any particular effort, just, you know, wandered in and did it. Surprising how much progress was made with so little effort.

Later still. They said “showers” and there have been intermittent showers. It's not raining right now, and the sky is much lighter this afternoon after three. I've been listening to and reading the usual news outlets, the “larger button than your button” and Mr. Bannon's “treasonous” comment published in Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House dominating all else. Sounds like news, but it's hard to say in our current alternate universe.

Evening. They've moved Democracy Now! from five-thirty to nine and so spent time with the tablet before checking Midsomer Murders at seven, watched it switching back and forth between it and Law & Order, all of those episodes repeats I decided I didn't need to see ever again until New Tricks came on at eight-forty and I decided I was much too tired to spend any more time watching this stuff. And so turned off the television set just as Democracy Now! started. Full circle. Not a bad day, albeit a little tired toward the end, but no complaints. If any of that makes any sense.