Wednesday. Not getting to sleep as early as I did before we lost that hour, but still not so bad, awakening then at five-thirty again. Well, at five and then later at five-thirty, to get up and set out walking to breakfast under mixed clouds without being particularly cold, arriving to find the restaurant open and one diner inside sitting at her usual table. OK, settle in nearby at my table and start on the papers, a number of other customers arriving as the morning wore on.

The single pork chop, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast after reading an article about placing warning labels on processed meats, all of which increase the chances of cancer. Things like hot dogs, bacon, corned beef hash, ham and sausages. Stuff I often eat for breakfast. Two strips of bacon is still bacon. Maybe I should cancel my subscriptions to one or two papers.

Finished up at a quarter to nine to set out for home and run the flower gauntlet. Still overexposed one or two thinking it wasn't as bright as it's been and the exposure looked OK in the viewfinder after backing off two-thirds of a stop, but turned out it should have been more. Still, on, more pictures, one of a motorcycle rider at the 580 Overpass to then find there were no scooters sitting by the lake, watching the last remaining one being fired up by a rider as I approached in the distance. Home to take the selfie and settle in and finish yesterday's entry, post and then start on this. Takes about two hours.

Later. Started charging the car battery before noon. It will take until the end of day tomorrow for it to finish, from past experience, but they're talking rain starting Saturday and I don't want to turn the key on a rainy Saturday morning to find it's gone mute.

More news than I needed on the coronavirus. The edicts to empty schools, ban large crowds, tell people to stay inside and the like are designed to keep the medical facilities from being buried under infected people who might end up dying because respirators and beds are all in use. They're saying the same number of people will still get the virus with these efforts, but over a longer period of time, the ‘same number’ being as many as sixty percent of the population. That's scary since there won't be a vaccination available for at best another year.

And what are you going to do?

Maybe stop listening to so much news.

Evening. To bed after eight in the usual routine, listening to the BBC News at nine, lights out by nine-thirty. So much for avoiding the news.