Shots from the Lip

 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......

 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!!

 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.......

 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.....

 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.

 Neither of us was in deep sleep and the noise we heard out front was enough to awaken us.  Had we been truly alert, we'd have run to the front door, turned on the front light and perhaps, had a chance to get a better view of a someone in shorts and a hoodie, blocking identification, throwing a 'pissatov cocktail' of what we believe was urine on our front porch...4th or 5th time???   We should have kept the front light on at night....we will in the future.....gets a better view for the Simplisafe system.  But Simply Safe did pick this up and we did remember to call SMPD who came 15 minutes later and we do have an incident report to which we can now post the material that we did not get a chance to present in Court. We'll go to Specified Bicycles to see what they picked up on their system and add that to the material that we can now add, through the SMPD website, directly to the incident report...........