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September 21, 2019

Win

Saturday. Lights out and to sleep at a decent hour to awaken at five-thirty, too early, but up and out the door to walk to breakfast on another cool morning under clear skies, the weather people saying in the low eighties later with more warm (too warm) weather to come. IMHO.

Arrived at five minutes to seven, the restaurant dark but for the kitchen light in the back and so through the unlocked dining area door to turn on the lights and settle in with the papers. The plain waffle with sliced bananas and strawberries, fruit cup and coffee this time, the weight up two pounds on the scale this morning. Don't want our weight being up by two pounds as two can lead to three. In the (now far) past that often led to problems.

Finished up by eight-thirty, the gas prices unchanged from yesterday, and so home to take the usual series of pictures stepping out with some energy I'd say. Not sure it's true, but we can hope. But one scooter sitting by the lake, the usual selfie in the apartment lobby and up to tape together yesterday's entry, catching errors in the picture captions. Hope I got all of them.

Nice out there, maybe head to the City Center, have lunch, see if anything was up after yesterday's demonstrations/strikes.

Later. A walk to check out the lake after hearing singing in the distance. Turned out it was a church group set up near the white column pergola. Felt light headed, though, and so turned around almost immediately and went back to the apartment to lie down and let it pass.

Downloaded the pictures quite a bit later, which is unusual, as I usually download them right away when I return, realizing the exposures, given the bright back light with the foreground in shadow hadn't been adequately taken into account. Fuzzy headed bleeds over into the camera settings, I'm afraid. Well, we can take care of that.

Evening. Watched the Notre Dame - Georgia game. Not a fan of either team, but less so of Notre Dame (as they more often than not crushed my old school when they met) and so happy to see Georgia manage to win.

The photo up top was taken at the 2017 Folsom Street Fair with a Nikon D5 mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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