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World Cup

The last time I was in Inglewood, CA, the Lakers played at the Forum, there were no LA Clippers or local pro football teams.....there was ONLY the Forum and Hollywood Park where Irv and I spent many, many, many a time......... Now the Clippers have there own arena there and there are two LA pro-football teams in a new stadium.  I am so close but so far from desiring to be with a crowd anymore....and qute content to watch World Cup matches across the street from our house, in the St John's Hospital Community Room with an 18' x 9' screen. Joanna was born mid-May, 1994.  Two weeks later I started doing mid-night - early morning bottle supplemental feedings, watching a whole lot of World Cup matches from Los Angeles as I held Joanna and bottle  in the living room ofour 7th floor apartment in Shekou, China.  I'm a Deadhead, you all know that,  I got my kicks from partying before, during and after Grateful Dead concerts and festivals. Hey - it is the same thing for NA...
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$90 a year for 24/7 365 (or 366) days a year

 After class, I went to the SMC main campus, paid $22.50 and then had staff assist (do it all, actually) to set me up to a new Go Pass system integrating my school records with my student body card and that card to a specific Tap card.  Four times a year I will pay $22.50 but that will give me complete access to every public transportation system in the County of Los Angeles - any time - not just for school!!!!! Today, while waiting for the system to activate my cards, I walked around the campus - nice atmosphere......I am going to see if I can possibly audit a 'regular' campus class in addition to my Emeritus courses.
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For inclusion in y current essay..........

 This past Thursday night, taking my mid-work session break as a volunteer at St John's Hospital, I got my coffee and found than instead of reading from my phone, that big, high-def screen was broadcasting the Mexico-Korea World Cup match in the community room adjoining the cafeteria.  There were 15-20 staff there, watching.....wow - what a screen to watch football - and right across the street from home. Friday, the day after, we had lunch with friends (yes, we do have friends!) at St Johns as Team USA was in a game against Australia.  We got to the cafeteria a half-hour prior to game start, put our stuff on a table to reserve it, went to the cafeteria to get lunch and came back to our table later, without anxiety because we had peace of mind, where we were, that no one would take our stuff....is there any place else in Santa Monica where we could do this? After the game and after lunch we went shopping.....and returned for another game at 3pm with a whole bunch doctors,...
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Recurring charges that are never cancelled.......

Nugs.net has been charging me for a long time on a monthly basis.  For what????   And yet I cannot seem to get it cancelled.  I tried to close the account with gmail as my address.   If there is a yahoo address, Nugs will not let me access it. I wrote to Chase today to try to get this cancelled.  Will it work? Tonight is Sweet Dreams - will I sleep late, tomorrow morning.....or will I go bicycle riding since it is a Friday (albeit still with lousy weather) 
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Walking through a task-filled morning.....

 I started with a sutcase walk to Ralph's where I also purchased 2 rib-eye steaks for $17.89 - this was definitely a bargain! After breakfast I went to CVS where I picked up pharmaceuticals on back order. And after reading my morning's updates, I walked to Trader Joe's for roasting potatoes (every day usage) and a big russet potato for baking, to go along with the rib-eye steak for lunch tomorrow. And this afternoon?  I am seriously debating going to a 1pm movie - assuming I have lunch early enough to get downtown by bus. It is now 11:47am........what will be???
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It's gonna be hot today!

 The sun was out early today - I was up and ready to go out early but finished home tasks first, finally departing around 10am for a morning walk to Schwab and an investment account deposit.  But the wait for a # 2 bus was too long so I walked back down from Wilshire Blvd and 9th to Lincoln & Santa Monica Blvd for the # 1 bus. True, I was gonna get - if they had fresh bulbs - peonies from Trader Joes but it was low priority so it'll wait a few days...... Nothing really to write about.......
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Brisk mornings in Santa Monica but boy was it hot in DTLA!

 The temperature shown on my watch might have been 25 at 11am....it was not!  It was windy and chilly and I only rolled up my long sleeves upon getting off the E Line at 7th Street where I went to 5 Guys for a hot dog lunch prior to walking to 5th Street and the old Crocker Bank Building for The Last Book Store's 'pop-up' flea market covering all 12 floors of the facility. My oh my did it sound like a fantastic thing.......if they only know how to coordinate something like this - which they sadly did not.......had they put it on 3 floors, packing those floors, there'd have been crowds getting to all the sellers.  As it was, I only made it to 4 floors and probably missed things on those floors as there was virtually no sense of marketing or getting people into a more receptive mood. Yesterday, going to meet Paul in DTLA, the E Line car was packed with those going to the Coliseum for a US World Cup game.  Today, going home from Spring Street and DTLA, the E Line car wa...
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