Sunday. Bailed on the World Series at the beginning of the eighth inning, figuring the Astros would win as they were seven runs ahead and I was tired. Enough baseball. Awoke finally with the alarm at six-fifteen and headed to the car to drive to breakfast, arriving before seven, the restaurant dark, but the dining area door unlocked and so as always inside to turn on the lights and settle in with the papers.

The avocado and mushroom omelet, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, finishing up by nine and so drove to the supermarket to buy one or two things, but most especially their largest package of toilet paper. The runny nose demands a lot of toilet paper. This, of course, after trying to talk myself out of it, but the idea of running out of toilet paper won the argument.

Took the selfie when I got home and turned on the television set to the news to see their worries yesterday about the fires and the wind seemed to have come to pass, the local stations focused on a fire on either side of the Carquinez bridge, the videos of the smoke, flames and stopped traffic more than arresting. Thus has gone the morning.

I was finally able to get an old monitor to work with the workstation. Funky, working with the lower resolution, but ordered a better quality monitor today as there's really no way I want to do photography with it. The old monitor, a LaCie 321, was designed for photographers (and cost a fortune). Haven't had a flat panel display fail before, but fail it did. You're never too old to learn.

Later. Over two million without power, close to two hundred thousand on mandatory evacuation and small fires popping up all over the place from the news reports and so that's how the afternoon has gone until the World Series started after five. They're saying another round of wind advisories (and power outs) may start up again on Wednesday. Welcome to climate central.

Evening. Watched the World Series. I guess I've been rooting for the Astros, more because the Nationals represent D.C. and D.C. isn't all that popular at gut level anymore. Not a bad day otherwise, the temperature just fine given what's gone before. To bed early I'm guessing.