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January 4, 2021

Later

Tuesday. To sleep not long after ten to awaken just before six, get up and take the blood pressure to find it within bounds (better than it was last night, anyway) and so back to bed to listen to Democracy Now! before getting up again and driving to breakfast in a light rain, arriving to enter the indoor dining area, turn on the lights and settle in with the papers.

The plain waffle with sliced bananas and strawberries, fruit cup and coffee, finishing by nine to walk back to the car and drive home, take the selfie in the lobby and then another blood pressure reading when I arrived. The pressure was high enough to take the blood pressure med, we'll see what it looks like again before noon. Settled down at the computer, finished yesterday's entry, posted the thing, processed the morning pictures and started here by eleven.

Got a list of things to arrange on the phone today, best I get started.

Later. Talked with the mover recommended by Ms. M and arranged for them to call and have an estimator look at the apartment over the phone as I walked about showing him what needed to be packed up and moved. Interesting way to do it, using the camera on the phone.

The blood pressure was up higher than I'd like by one-thirty and so a second dose of the blood pressure med.

Otherwise more time on the tablet watching the first five episodes of a Netflix series called Jo, a French detective series that seems to have hooked my interest.

Evening. I haven't had the sinuses ache in a few months now. Pressure on them when sleeping, the side of the face on the pillow, hasn't been causing pain anymore. This after well over a decade of experiencing it both during the day and more often than not first thing in the morning after sleeping all night. Same with the upper chest, sometimes awakening with it aching in the mornings if I slept in an awkward position. They just stopped happening and I've flashed to it and wondered about it now for maybe a month or two without commenting. I assume this is a good sign.

The blood pressure, usually higher in the evenings, was higher still when I took it for the last time at eight-twenty. Again, who knows why? Otherwise the usual nothing on television and so lights out by nine, my lights out not all that much later.

The photo up top was taken at the 2015 San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade with a Nikon D4s mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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