Saturday. Another lights out before ten, but not all that long before ten, to awaken at six-fifteen after one or two false starts, up to walk to breakfast on another sunny clear sky morning, the temperature warm, but not too warm in my light winter jacket.

The Eggs Benedict, country potatoes and coffee breakfast, hesitating remembering they have in the past led to ocular symptoms later. So far, so good with that, but we'll see, it's only now approaching ten.

A little too warm walking back in that jacket. It hit eighty degrees yesterday, today they're saying eighty-eight. I believe them. Next time a summer jacket and maybe just a long sleeved shirt.

But you digress.

Without digression this thing wouldn't exist.

A festival of some sort over at the lake boat house later starting at noon. I suspect I'll give it a look with a camera, although I'm not sure how that will work out.

Later. Tired all afternoon. Took an hour's nap, watched the first half of the Germany-Sweden World Cup match, watched some golf and not much else, avoiding any thought of going over to the boat house to see what the Oakland Lakefest was about. The thought was the Gay Rights Parade is tomorrow, want to be in reasonable shape to photograph that, although I really didn't need it as an excuse.

We're up to Hersh's seeing his first article published on the My Lai massacre in his memoir Reporter. Interesting to think where I was as he talks about the war in the late sixties and now heading into the early 70's. Reminds you your government will tell you lies and send you to places for no good reason where you get killed as easily or not to avoid getting them politically embarrassed. All the governments of this world are very skilled at telling tales that can get you killed.

Evening. Nothing on television again and so read more Reporter. It gives you an idea of how he operated, what his disposition was like, how he managed to put together a wide ranging group of news contacts, people who'd tell him the truth, when everyone else was telling lies. So it still has me hooked.