Thursday. To sleep soon enough (I'm guessing) to awaken finally just before six to listen to Democracy Now! and then get up at the usual time to set out walking to breakfast on another overcast morning, arriving to settle in at my usual table and start on the papers.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee, finishing up around nine, only one person having arrived to sit inside and only another two out on the patio. They do quite a bit of take out business, but the number of sit down diners seems to vary quite a bit.

Up to set out walking home, the sky still overcast, the light even, but still managing to take the morning's pictures with only varying degrees of success.

Arrived home to take the selfie and settle in at the computer, futz with and post yesterday's entry before processing the morning's pictures and then just stopped after writing the first two paragraphs here. The mind fuzzy? Tired? Out of gas?

Later. Read and watched the news on the building collapse near Miami wondering how that might apply to say my similarly aged building here in Oakland. They'll find out what happened, of course, and you hope it's some rare one-off never to happen again tragedy that has to do with something like salt water seepage or such specific to that building at that location and not shortcuts taken in construction, inspectors bribed and the like.

The balconies next to mine just sagged and fell one morning some months ago at the beginning of the pandemic and they've been sitting propped up with scaffolding put in place by a work crew waiting for the pandemic to end before they finish repairing them. This is a problem discovered in other apartment house balconies in the area after one in Berkeley failed when a dozen college students were standing on it at a party. Do you trust your local building inspector? Do you trust your government?

Otherwise spent the afternoon in naps and with the tablet.

Evening. Turned on Vera at eight, immediately realized I'd seen it before and didn't need to see it again and so went to bed.