BACK TO:

[Journal Menu]

[Home Page]

[email]

[100 Books]

[Other Sites]



Here In Oakland

Art & Life


 


September 16, 2019

Tight

Monday. Awoke two minutes before the alarm was due to go off and so up, check the blood pressure (behaving) and get ready to head out the door to breakfast when I realized it was raining and I'd better drive. Rain til eleven had been the forecast and raining on and off it was. Arrived to find the restaurant open and so scooted right inside.

The two strips of bacon, eggs over medium, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee again, just two or three people coming in out of the rain to have breakfast, finishing up before eight-thirty to drive straight home. It had been raining hard for some periods, less so to not at all for others, but wet with what few pedestrians carrying umbrellas. Home to take the selfie, take care of this and open the sliding glass balcony door wide to let the cool air in. Cool air. Nice. Feels like autumn.

Later. Tired for whatever reason and so a lie down on and off on the bed for a couple of hours before deciding to just get up and head for the bus stop to get the blood drawn at the lab the cardiologist wanted and so, out the door into what was now sunshine, the head clearing up as it usually does when outside. Caught the bus to Grand, had the Broadway bus arrive a minute before I got to the stop, but people waiting and so a run to get on and ride to the lab.

Only one person waiting at the lab and so had the blood drawn, going by the building café afterward to have a yogurt parfait and a small coffee at one of their outside tables. OK, I'd been lucky in finding a bus without having to wait these last number of trips, but the day was nice (seventy degrees) and figured I needed a walk and so off, arriving at Grand just as the bus home turned onto Grand at Broadway, the walk light red, but no traffic and so ran across Grand, caught the bus and that was it. Home by two, the lab taken care of, the head clearer than it was this morning.

Evening. Skipped watching the second episode of Ken Burns’ Country Music series at eight, tired I guess, and so to bed to listen to the radio until just after nine when it was lights out, sleep tight.

The photo up top was taken at the Oakland Pride Festival earlier this month with a Nikon D500 mounted with a 24-120mm f 4.0 VR Nikkor lens.


LAST ENTRY | JOURNAL MENU | NEXT ENTRY