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May 23, 2020

Long

Saturday. Awoke at four to get up and take a leak, but then awoke for good at six-fifteen after what I'd say (for these days, anyway) a decent night's sleep. Up at seven twenty-five to make the bed and get ready to set out and walk to breakfast in the usual routine, passing the abandoned car again, the window still open, harboring whatever that stuff is inside. Arrived to enter the closed off dining room to turn on the lights and settle in with the papers on a sunny, going to be into the mid-seventies, day.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit up and coffee for breakfast. Still making headway on losing those two or three extra pounds, the dining room all to myself before finishing up and setting out for home to take on the flowers with the camera without a second thought. We take pictures of what flowers we find on the way home, it seems, oblivious to anything else.

A picture of two Gruv scooters by the lake, the selfie in the lobby and then up to finish yesterday's entry, post and then start processing today's pictures. A little tired when I'd finished, thinking it's maybe time for a nap. Wasn't, but took up the tablet instead.

Later. Spent most of the afternoon on the tablet watching the first three episodes of the second season of Call To Duty. It's disturbing for the environment it shows, the politics, who's doing what to whom, as mentioned after finishing the first five episode season yesterday. This one is even better at making you wonder. Gives me the creeps in the sense it seems, at least in my case, to move me along to being as paranoid about what I'm seeing in this made up world as the characters are experiencing themselves.

Nobody has any idea what you're talking about.

Including me. Might have to think about it for a while, clarify my thoughts. Odd to say that about a television series, but whatever it's doing, it does indeed mess, unpleasantly mess, with your head.

Evening. Nothing on television I wanted to watch. Again, spent too much time on the tablet. Downloaded and installed Zoom earlier and ordered a video camera to work with it from B & H Photo to prepare for our family gathering in July (if a Zoom session can be called a “gathering”). Be interesting to see how it works out. Not sure why I've put off installing the thing for this long.

The photo up top was taken at the forming up of the 2016 Cherry Blossom Festival Parade in San Francisco with a Nikon D4s mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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