Thursday Lights out early last night not long after nine and so awoke too early again at five, zoning out and back to listen to the five minute KPFA news before Democracy Now! started at six. Up to drive to the Lakeshore ATM and then on to the restaurant, arriving to settle in at my table on the patio, this time the first person to arrive.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee (again, no sure why) to finish up with the papers not long after nine, a number of other patrons having breakfast on this overcast and just as cold and yesterday morning, to set out for the car, taking the usual succulent picture for no reason other than habit.

Drove straight home, took the selfie in the lobby thinking I really do have to go to the bathroom and so making it just in time. This happens too often, the race to the bathroom whether driving home or walking, a less than desirable habit this time.

Finished up yesterday's entry and posted, the day still quite overcast and cool, they're saying up into the mid-sixties again later this afternoon, but a series of much warmer high seventies days starting this coming Sunday. More fire weather.

Later. Tired just after noon and so a nap, getting maybe an hour's sleep/rest. Received the David Attenborough book A Life On Our Planet from Amazon today and took a quick look. It seems to closely parallel the Netflix movie of the same name and so we'll see if buying it was a good decision. A lot cheaper just watching the Netflix piece.

This week's New Yorker arrived in the mail today and I read a review of This Close, a book about the “almost nuclear exchange” during the Cuban missile crisis, that expands the knowledge of who said/did what during the tense incident when the captain of a nuclear armed Soviet submarine disobeyed orders and didn't fire a nuclear tipped torpedo while being depth charged by an American war ship and thereby avoided nuclear war.

It was much worse and chancier than I'd known now that so much more information has been declassified since the incident. Scary, yes, I remember that time when I was in college in Seattle listening to the news, not knowing how close we'd come, but the thought then occurred after reading this review that we have a very much different president in power at the moment than we did back then, a president not known for keeping a cool head. Scarier still. Almost wish I hadn't read it. There's more than enough other stuff happening at the moment to keep us on edge.

Evening. Watched an episode of Vera I'd seen before at eight (not remembering much about it) and so to bed at close to ten to turn the lights out after listening to the six minute ten o'clock news on NPR right on schedule. Now if we can awaken in the morning at, say, ten minutes to six the timing will be right on target.