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Sleeping in late on a Friday morning

 I was talking with patients past my 'usual' Thursday night quitting time and thus, slept in, comfortably, without a worry about getting up late......and although the weather out this morning, still sucked, it was a couple of degrees warmer than that past few days and a Friday late morning, lousy weather ride along the beach, in my solitude, was, in a word, WONDERFUL!!! The big task at hand today was writing an email, in detail, to the UK-based owner of the two floor # 105 at 2311 Shader.  He wants higher trees - as we do - not the 12 foot ordinance-type that, in essence, would kill our mature trees.  I wrote the 2+ page email - with attachment - that Katherine edited and approved........ Save our trees! Once upon a time I had tremendous success writing letter upon letter to Inland Revenue in Hong Kong, reaching success more often than not in wearing down the ability to cope with 'foreign tongue correspondence with a few dictionary searches included.  Is this how to ...
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1 of 8 today

There were 8 attendees for the Novel class at the Emeritus Building this morning:  me and seven women.   For the remainder of the semester (which ends mid-June - 6 more classes) we'll be into Catch 22.  I've completed 42% of my re-read, thus far.  Yeah, I'll complete the book and then go to Heller's sequel, Closing Time. Thursday we go to City Hall regarding our trees - we are in violation because they've not been trimmed....but we believe we are eligible for exceptions based upon mature growth trees.....we'll see what happens......... 
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Monday morning

 How nice to wake up and see sun!  Of course it is still cold out - some May:  only 16C out but if feels lower than that.  Regardless, the morning walk was nice and I do plan to get out more!  Tonight at 5pm there is a free screening of a movie at the Main Campus of Santa Monica College - I will go for this.  Tomorrow is school - and after, perhaps a movie??? I'm going to keep on writing bits and pieces in this blog every day (if possible).  But I am also going to start posting, by hand, in the Moleskin 'hybrid' pad.  That's where I will write that which I don't want to commit to computer..........it'll be far more interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sunday at 11:30am

The sun might just make it out today.....it is trying, now.........weather has been lousy thus far this morning, with my normal bike route screwed up somewhat today because of a marathon that police had blocked off streets involved. I will have an early lunch and then go to a 1pm concert at the Broad Stage of Santa Monica College.  This is a big band concert and I hope that it proves to be an interesting alternative to usual activities......it is time to watch events at Santa Monica College a bit more closely because daytime activities, especially, are what I need to get involved with. 
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a cold day in May

 What an absolutely shitty day to be out bicycle riding!  There was no sun.......it was cold......it was windy......the beach benches I like to sit at and ponder the world were all taken today.....dammit! Here it is, 11:14am and I finished the morning mail and set up for today......Of course I had great intentions to write today.....but upon getting ready to do this, my ideas wandered and I lost immediate interest....... I do have reading to do today - got to stay up on things......and tomorrow I really have to finish the heavy load I set for myself today.....sorry but rather than explain what I have to do today, I'm just going to go ahead and do it......and perhaps, just perhaps, I'll sketch and write in my newest attempt at a diary.......
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May Day has been a mess

 I went to Best Buy:  their Geek Squad could not remedy the difference in the Kobo app on the iPad mini that needed to coordinate with both the Kobo reader of my iPhone and Amazon Fire......ah well, at least I can still partially use that ancient iPad that simply refuses to die!!! SimpliSafe  sells systems. They 'simpli' contract with outside installers.  We asked for complete set up and teaching us how to properly use the system - we were willing to pay.....but to get to that point took hours more than it should have....... The 3d Floor lunatic at 2311 Shader 'forced' a tree trimming violation upon us....we're fighting it......sadly another example of what the culture here leaves to be desired......such is life?
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Over 300 calls and still getting them.......

At first they were all robo-calls that were even listed as potential spam.......now, nothing is listed as potential spam but I did pick up a non robo call from a  northern California contractor.......what is happening is that I now automatically reject all calls unless I clearly see it is a call from someone I know.  Hey, if it is really important enough, the person or persons trying to reach me will sooner or latter still get in touch with me........ My Kobo reader is getting kind of quirky.  I've got to bring both my iPad mini (a real ancient one!) and phone to Best Buy and have their Geek Squad get the Kobo app on the iPad in synch with the phone and also pair/link with blue tooth so I can use the iPad as a Kobo ebook reader......and also see if the portable keyboard I have can be paired, too, with the iPad...... I also still have to take my Surface Pro computer to Spectrum to get it working for Dodger games on the computer.........
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