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October 31, 2018

Sleep

Wednesday. Lights out before ten to awaken at five minutes to six and take my time in getting up and heading out the door to walk to breakfast. Cold this morning, none of this ‘cool’ business. Cold. Another morning like this and we switch from the light to the heavy (for California) winter coat. Arrived before seven to find the restaurant open.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast. The kitchen starts taking orders at seven-thirty, but they start serving coffee and bakery items at the walk up counter around the corner from the dining area at seven. Shouting broke out at the counter at about seven-ten between a customer and the owner, the owner demanding a man get the hell out and calling 911, all this blocked from view from my table, one other person in the dining area sitting at a table behind me. Got my attention, it did, but the man evidently left, the police arriving five minutes later. Excitement enough for a morning please.

Finished up by nine and walked back under what was now a bright sun not, for some reason, taking all that many pictures.

Another Protime blood thinner test due today and so out the door soon to catch the bus and walk on to the lab. Time now to get ready.

Later. A bus before eleven to the Broadway ATM and then on to the lab, taking pictures of the construction site at 27th and then the construction site between Broadway and Webster across from the hospital and the lab. A decent walk, starting to get tired as I arrived.

A wait this time of twenty minutes before they could draw the blood, but then a yogurt cup and coffee after at a table in front of the building café before walking then down Broadway, by the construction site located above the site at 27th, another shot of the 27th street and Broadway site before heading on to the bus stop on Grand.

Thought I might have enough time to do the usual three photos of the Webster/Valdez buildings, but figured why chance it (and I was by this time getting tired). It turned out I would have had enough time to take them, but took the bus home without regret to download the pictures when I arrived before immediately retiring to the bedroom and the tablet to continue with something called Wild District, a series set in Colombia. One hopes life in Bogotá isn't as miserable and violent as this particular series describes. Different enough I must admit to be of interest.

Evening. Halloween night, the last day of October, just the right night for going to bed early and get some sleep.

The 2012 Fruitvale Dia de los Muertos Street Festival taken with a Nikon D4 mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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