Shots from the Lip

 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...........

 Yeah, that is one big breakfast!  Sausage patty, bacon strip, English muffin split in two, scrambled eggs, 3 pancakes, hash brown, orange juice......and lots of butter  and a small container of syrup. whew.......burp.......but no coffee......... I was out with Edwin, formalizing the next lease....then home to sit off all that food.  I'm listening go operavore (WQXR opera station) as I type.   I'm more or less up to date...got to answer Edwin and take a couple of bike pictures.....and read....that's it for today......... Perhaps a walk to Ralphs for a half pound of spicey shrimp ceviche? 25 years + a couple of days......the World Trade Center bombing.....a generation ago.  We were in China......probably in Guangzhou but it could have been Hong Kong as we had the Garley Building apartment and I could have been spending a weekend there with Joanna.  25 years ago....and now here I am at 84.....how the fuck did I get to be this old??? Have a great day...