Shots from the Lip

 It was undeniably cold this morning and I had to choose between my old, reliable Covent Garden sweat shirt and my new Salvadorian light maroon hoodie.  I chose the former for this morning's walk - that was good! I went to Gateway Hotel and pre-paid the hotel and parking fees.  Once upon a time, a neighborhood hotel was very affordable.  Now?  At least we can afford to pay for it....but ah ya - tai gui le!!! At least I will be able to read the Wall Street Journal, hard copy, each of the weekdays next week... Do we park there at $20 per day plus tax when we have a permit on 23d St??? Only time will tell.....

 Lucio, his son and another of his relatives - re-doing our front fence and gate.  They are doing a wonderful job!  We've done the fence and the roof this year.....and the pipes under the next door neighbor Chasen's house was the culprit that periodically screwed up our outside accessible pipes to the city system......who knows - perhaps things might go easier in the future, but for the piss bomber we have to continually contend with. It was cold today- 16C when I left for school.  We have the heater on inside, now.  I still have a hoodie sweat shirt on - perfect for being either indoors or out!

 After a hectic week, I got up early today, bundled up, took my walk, re-dressed to go out to school, went to school.....and after, prior to going home, spent a half-hour reading on the Palisade overlooking the ocean.......tranquility! We have to change the angle of the cameras outside......we can do this ourselves......the instructions are intelligible!  I had a lunch on Friday that I screwed up....I got the screwing end today....but Katherine already had made a wonderful mapodofu......... I'm down to two books for current reading:  Blockers by Michael Lewis and Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido. Nothing more to say today.......

 Here I am, solidly entrenched as a certifiable old fart, bundled up because 16 degrees C was too cold for me to go out for a morning walk.  Actually, once I awakened to the fact that there was not going to be any rain today and that this was going to be a simply beautiful morning outside, I functioned a whole lot better! It is now 12:15pm and I've just about completed all my scheduled tasks - with music practice and answering ID.me all neessary to have a completed day.  I'll go out later.....listen to game 2 of the Series....read, rest, etc, etc. for the remainder of the day......and definitely look forward to a day at the opera tomorrow. This week is (more or less) set up.  I have three mornings of classes this week and Thursday night,29 October, I will become a clown for my weekly Sweet Dreams stint at St John's Hospital......and then, on Saturday, TianTian comes....and the following morning Joanna will get here and we'll spend our time together through the end of...

 Here's the email we sent to the detective in charge from SMPD: Good morning! Both Katherine and I slept through the night.  Our SimpliSafe system did not pick up a thing...... But we woke up to find that the serial splasher was here again at an undetermined time.  He already knew where our cameras are and the 'results' on our front porch (see attached) appear to show that he quickly threw from the northern corner of our property diagonally across, towards the direction of our mail box.   This is the third time this month that he has done this.  We called 911 the first two times.  We did not call when we got up this morning but are submitting this to you directly and ask you to add this to the growing list of incidents against us.  

 ......but it is only Wednesday morning, late morning as we slept in later this morning since Lucio and his crew to build the new fence gate had to be postponed because of possible rains today and tomorrow.  It rained heavily for about an hour last night but nothing more.  There are definitely rain clouds above but the sun is out and it sure as hell don't look like its gonna rain anymore today...but who knows??? Regardless, it is cold outside - temperature here is projected to get to 19C but it never ever feels as high as the temperature shows here because of the tradewinds coming in off the Pacific. I do Sweet Dreams tonight - looking forward to doing a little bit towards community betterment.....or, as the St John's ads go:  all for the better.......