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It's Friday but it feels like Saturday

 Now, without weekend bicycling and after doing Sweet Dreams last night, we stayed in bed later than usual.  Obviously, we got up......I did my morning walk.....got two different chips at Trader Joe's....perused and selectively printed and read this morning's news papers......answered UCLA Health and set up a 29 December follow-up medical appointment......and am now fully involved in procrastinating through the balance of this morning, avoiding responsible tasks that should have been done a couple of days ago.....etc, etc, etc...... And yet......true to the procrastinating spirit of things, yesterday afternoon I started binge reading.  First,  I completed this week's New Yorker for free, off of the Libby app.  Then I completed reading Closing Time, Joseph Heller's 'sequel' to Catch 22, 32 years after the original was published.  Of course it was not close to the original......perhaps I should have read Something Happened instead of Closing Time.......regard...
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School today.....then......

 Pure luck - I did something right - the right thing at the right time! I went to the new Italian sandwich shop on SMB that Katherine saw and expressed an interest in trying......I took away their most popular sandwich, pre-cut in half for the two of us....perfect to fill out lunch today, followed by a trip, first to Whole Food, then to Trader Joe's, and then to the open house at 1227 23d Street and the primary of three apartments for lease......this one 3 bedrooms - 2 ensuite....+   Interesting but for the stairs....... The sandwich? Good but way, way, way over-priced....and yet, it is probably time to sample from the abundance of what is available downtown that we cannot get here, so close-by.......\ Comedy class - we watched the first half of Tootsie - 1982.   
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Analog Camera Company at 1639 11th Street, Santa Monica.....

 They ain't there anymore....I walked there this afternoon.  They were a professional company offering pretty rapid film processing. I went there after frustrating visits to both Walgreens and CVS - once upon a time they were super slow but still did film processing.  Not anymore - their 3d party contract processor ceased.  Turns out Analog Camera was that 3d party contract processor.   Now there's no place in the entire city of Santa Monica were I could walk up to a counter and drop off a 35mm cassette for developing and prints. I have one roll waiting to be processed and two rolls waiting to be loaded into the Rollei for a photoshoot.  That ain't gonna happen until there's a solution to this film processing conundrum I am now in......
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i re-subscribed to Netflix!

 There are 3 episodes left to be seen in Season 5's 12 episodic Fauda that I started last week.  This is strong stuff!  After season 5, I'll watch Season 4 which I do not recall having seen before. I enjoyed going downtown for a photoshoot yesterday.  I will do this far more frequently!!!  And today I both drew and water colored.....more of that for the future as well! I will read this afternoon......right now, I have a Buena Vista Social Club 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival concert on as background....nice!!
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Third camera now being installed!.

 First we had Jose.....next was Henry.....this morning Osvaldo is here to complete installation of the wires connecting the third camera in front of our house for our security system. On Monday, because  budget cuts mandated Fridays as work from home days or off days, we could not meet with City Hall to find out what we have to do to install bamboo frontage behind our front fence....then we'll have the fence repaired and set up with bamboo....hopefully, that will be enough.   Regardless, after Osvaldo completes today' s tasks, I will go out on a photoshoot, returning for a late lunch/early dinner.......
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Another busy morning!

 We more or less have mutually decided upon what we want to do with our front fence but discovered this morning, after arriving at City Hall East to ask questions and confirm what we can do without permit, that the place is closed on Fridays.  Budget cuts demanded this.  So we'll go back again on Monday and then coordinate with the sub-contractor we met with...... Still no word from either Planning or Public Works and we are not about to contact either - we'll wait for them...... We got two mini-pumpkins for inside decor Trader Joe's $.99 specials......I am toying with the idea of getting a big pumpkin and carving it......I did this a long, long time ago, once upon a time...... Sketching, music, reading on my afternoon agenda.....going to go downtown on a photoshoot tomorrow.....
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15 remembered

 15 of those I've communicated with over the years still remembered - they sent me birthday greetings - including one who sent a long email.....one who I apparently made some impact upon but alas, I do not remember him other than sending birthday greetings.....such is life..... We went to Teddy's for breakfast yesterday.....not as good as the Pantry was but hey, close enough and actually, so fucking close to us to warrant going more often! We've found someone to repair our front fence - and will do this in conjunction with raising our current fence as it is 'refurbished' and putting in bamboo dividers to raise height without needing a permit.......we now need to go to City Hall to confirm what we can legally do without permit.
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