Shots from the Lip

 .........and upon walking this morning, I can attest:  it's gonna be too fucking hot outside today! Of course I planned a photoshoot today......forget about it - it's too damned hot!  I will play piano this morning.....and possibly, this afternoon, start upon lessons again.......and who knows - just perhaps I will take out my keytar and try my hand at that again as it is strictly treble/right hand music and that I can play - two hands simultaneously is my problem - will I ever overcome that problem?  With hours of practice, likely....without that input of time, no fucking way....such is life. I'm going to finish Taipei Story (hopefully) today.  I'll review the unread or still to be finished books on both Kindle and Kobo before re-starting to read Something Happened on my Kobo.  While I did not enjoy Closing Time as much as I had hoped, it was still 'worthwhile' enough that I will now do Something Happened.  I was told that this book was a better read ...

 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...