Shots from the Lip

 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?

 Lots more urine this time.....and for the second time in a row, nothing was picked up....SimpliSafe will be here tomorrow afternoon  - something is wrong and it has to be corrected! And other than that?   I am happy to have found a mama-papa Korean immigrant shop that does film developing.....not only that, it is virtually across the street from Marukai Market and getting there now can also be by taking the #1 bus to Bundy and then the #14 on Bundy to Pico...... True, it is expensive.....and that means using film more sparingly, once I've 'verified' through developing and printing that first roll, that I brought in to Rose 1 hr photo - the mama-papa shop...... ******** But wait - there's more - and it was unexpected:  I wrote Detective Caprio as well as Simplisafe and Caprio responded - thus, I called to make a new incident report.......and we now wait for SMPD to come so we can follow through with this. ******** I am purging two books from current reading:...

 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...

 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.