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March 30, 2020

Breakfast

Monday. To sleep reasonably quickly to awaken at a quarter to seven, which is good. Up to walk to breakfast wearing a mask, the temperature not all that bad, the sidewalks clear of people except for some few runners in the middle of their various exercise routines.

Not all that many people wearing masks for some reason, maybe because they're not available. Arrived before eight, the restaurant open with a limit of three people at a time inside picking up their orders and so into the blocked off dining area to turn on the lights and settle in with the papers.

The avocado and mushroom omelet, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee this time, finishing up well after nine to then set out for home, taking pictures along the way of the usual set of flowers, the sun out, but the camera focus a bit off, correcting it when necessary using Topaz Sharper AI, a program I'd downloaded recently. The Nikon 1 V3 autofocus seems to be the problem, something you don't see (I haven't seen) with the larger DSLR's.

Another picture of the three Lyft scooters still sitting where they were on the sidewalk when I passed them walking in, taking the selfie again in the apartment house lobby and then up to mess with yesterday's journal entry and start on this, the head in seemingly better condition that it has in the recent past.

Later. Settled in on the bed and listened to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, the subject being the high percentage of prescription drugs and much needed pandemic protection items being produced in China (something like 90%) and what that may mean during this pandemic as well as the troublesome adulteration present in many of these medications in the best of times. Switched to something I'd started yesterday on Britbox. Some things it's best not to overdo right now, too much paranoia not being your friend.

Two Amazon deliveries in the mid-afternoon, both food items. Good.

Evening. Stayed up until eight to check out Father Brown on television, gave up almost immediately and went to bed. Best to stop this right now and start again tomorrow morning after breakfast.

The photo up top was taken at the 2017 San Francisco Saint Patrick's Day Parade with a Nikon D5 mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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