Shots from the Lip

 Theoretically, today will be a hot one, leading to the beginning of next week, with Monday projected to be the hottest day of the year.   In anticipation, I put on shorts this morning after shedding all clothing from yesterday, having had my half-year haircut and then doing Sweet Dreams at St John's last night....whew - a couple of long days and today, nothing really scheduled - I should re-load my Rollei and start more photoshoot days...... Vargas Mason screwed up - his email said 33 minutes....his driver said 1 hr, 15 minutes.   She was right...... Stillzy us still the cheapest although their delivery still does leave something to be desired......ah well, it is 9:35am and I am ready to go to Trader Joe's.....

 Use a #3 and #4 guard and shave s half year off....that was my haircut.  Katherine had a shampoo first, no blow dry....and a straight cut......we'll go back to Supercuts, again, in 6 months.  Her hair cut and shampoo:  $44.  Mine:  $36....plus she left a tip...... I ordered Stillzy today for the next month......Even cheaper than before....they are getting rid of their old stuff....next month, 31 Oct - festivities.....and higher prices??? We had the mediocre tasting turkey meatloaf from Whole Food soaked in a can of pizza sauce...and added mozerella cheese....not bad at all!

 I got a long email from one of my earliest clients.....I believe we 'met' as T-Bird graduates way back when in my early Guangzhou days.  I'm pretty sure I also did meet him in 1993, 'years' before the 1997 market crash that wiped out his investment gains.   They've doubled the condensed game time to approximately 20 minutes.  I found this out this morning, because a subscription to MLB-TV ain't worth a damn - you need NBC & Peacock for the opening games...what's next?  Certainly not the ability to get the games on MLB-TV.....damned system is trying to milk consumers any way it can.......screw that - radio works pretty damned well!!!

 Yesterday, virtually all day long - the printer and computer would not work together......this morning, it all worked as smooth as silk....... The gate repair - ~$7,000 - far too expensive....I wrote a counter proposal for just the gate....we'll see what he comes back with...... We'll get my photos and that will determine how I will 'direct' my photo energies..... but even more important than that, I have to re-energize myself vis a vis piano!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 No real case of Monday morning blues.....the 'enhanced', 24 hour security system seemed to work the way it should last night......Katherine got a good night's sleep....I read and slept........let's see about tonight..... I already purchased milk at Trader Joe's this morning during my daily walk - sunny out but already down to 18C outside, so it will be getting cooler as the days go shorter.  And then I wrote Detective Capiro - giving him the new Incident # and letting him know we've also upgraded our security - we shall see what happens........ I have the current events class on zoom now.  It really is a lousy class - no structure and full of attendees desirous of talking.....is it my problem that I have no interest in listening??   I do have no problem listening to the lecturer - she's good......but knowing that this class is actually hybrid, I am not really interested in going to the live class...... Same with the opera class......interesting enough to se...

 Hey, doesn't that title make you a bit inquisitive?  What am I getting at????  NY Bagels and Deli - that's it!  Walking by the place on an early Sunday morning with the sun starting to come out and the humidity for the day already high, the smell of bagels baking and breakfast being cooked and served tempted me to grab a seat at one their empty outside front tables to savor the breakfasts being cooked and served - and ingest what I could through deep nasal breaths..... So I get home only to discover that a 3.6 earthquake this morning was enough to screw up my printer and its cable access - and now I cannot print anything out.....is it time to forget printing?