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October 16, 2018

Way

Tuesday. An uneven night's sleep, but awakening just before six in time to listen to the KPFA five minute news before Democracy Now! came on. Up and out the door on a clear, cool and dark morning to walk to breakfast, arriving at seven.

The single pork chop, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, finishing reading at a quarter to nine and walking back home under what was now a bright sun, the light jacket I'd worn now warm enough for walking. A bit cool walking in.

And so?

And so now to straighten out my various Adobe programs that received updates yesterday requiring hours to install, and three of them - Lightroom, Dreamweaver and Photoshop - seem to have gone south, each in their own ways. Lightroom, in particular, seems unable to properly import new photographs. Made yesterday a real pain in the butt.

Later. A walk to Lake Merritt to at least say I'd gotten out of the apartment, walking by a bicycle I'd photographed last Saturday, but this time not surrounded by people and so photographed it on its unusual stand up close. Up on a stand, yes, but welded to the stand, a work of art rather than someone's novel way of parking a bike.

On to the white column pergola taking a couple of pictures along the way, to then sit for maybe ten minutes in the sun before returning to the apartment, not much of a walk and feeling light headed, no ambition to walk farther on or take a bus to say the downtown or to the supermarket, both destinations I'd been contemplating.

Warm and so onto the bed with the tablet, the fan sitting at the foot of the bed.

Evening. The head fuzzy enough that writing the section above was something of an effort, the vision off, just finding my way around the words and sentences for edit and adding picture links a frustrating task. Passed by as we got into the evening, but the rest of the day spent watching this and that on the tablet before lights out after nine. We'll schedule an eye exam appointment tomorrow and see if anything is happening with the eyes, at least get that out of the way.

The photo up top was taken at the 2015 Oakland Museum Dia de los Muertos exhibit with a Nikon D4s mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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