Tuesday To sleep soon enough after ten to awaken briefly at three-thirty, blink, and suddenly it was six, time for Democracy Now! and the usual routine in getting up and heading out the door walking on another sunny morning. Arrived at the usual time to enter the dining area, turn on the lights and settle in with the papers.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee, finishing up just after nine to set out for home under a now brighter sun taking the usual series of pictures and noting the Link scooters had reappeared again on the sidewalk alongside the now fewer to be seen Spin scooters.

Home to take the selfie in the lobby and settle in at the computer.

Later. Called the Stanford unit administering the COVID shots and asked what the parking situation was like for tomorrow in the early evening for my appointment and they said no problem, just remember not to arrive at their office until five minutes before the appointment. OK. We'll undoubtedly arrive too early and have to sit in the car for half and hour or so, given my habits, but it sounds like it might go halfway smoothly once I arrive. Not worried about the shot itself or any after effects, most of the vaccinations I've had in this life have offered nothing more than a sore arm for a few hours.

Otherwise an afternoon watching a Netflix series on the tablet with breaks for various television news programs, more to get up and stretch than any real interest in what might be happening since the last news program I'd watched some few hours before.

Evening. My sister got her second COVID shot earlier today, so she's been through the mill. Nothing on television I wanted to watch and so to bed after eight, lights out again not all that long after nine. Haven't really been keeping the lights on after ten now for a while.