Shots from the Lip

........It was supposed to start raining around noon, today.  The drizzles started around 1pm.  I got home from my Comedy class shortly after 11am,went to the dry cleaners with Katherine's jacket, got home, ate, it started drizzling.  I took out the garbage and came back lightly soaked with the cold weather prompting me to put on a sweatshirt.  Regardless, I actually completed everything i had wanted to complete today, so I can't complain - but I prefer hotter, dryer weather...... I am, for the first time in a long time, remarkably up-to-date and should theoretically be able to relax,,,,,,can I??

 Yeah, I have a Tuesday morning at 9am hybrid class for which the value of getting on the #1 bus and going downtown to attend the live conference is far, far, far superior to trying to do it at home......even with all the old ladies who outnumber the old men ((yeah, I'm one of them) for whom I am now 'fair game'....... That's the case of my Monday class - I'll do that one online out of preference!!! I've been back and forth at Schwab re forms they've wanted us to fill out and my asking for help which they never provided......today they had the service to get both of us through - probably because we were now holding things up for everyone as part of the system of getting things in process completed.....perhaps, next time, they will believe me when I ask for help rather than wait to discover that I really needed help......such is life....... Regardless, it all seems to have now been completed!

 Katherine had a 7:30am medical appointment across the street at St Johns this morning.  We were up early...we breakfasted early.....and she was back within an hour. The plastic and rubber French Press that I got via Amazon works wonderfully!  It took a few tries at getting it right and it appears to now be 'right'!!!  6-7 oz of hot, fresh brewed coffee - complete with a caffeine kick! I will leave in about 15 minutes for my bus to school and then lunch out followed by a movie.  If I stay the length of today's class then I will go to the Laemmle in Santa Monica and see Digger.....Is it really that bad or is it a hidden gem?  Then, on Wednesday, I might go to the Laemmle Royal in West LA to watch Nava, the Guardian backed Palestine documentary...... Regardless, it'll be good to get a day out......and I'll take my Rollei for a possible photoshoot, too!

 ........and the double bagged Ralph's accumulation of items purchased this morning (with a real ease of actually finding what I wanted efficiently this morning!) was heavy but I made it, nonetheless, home, in one piece. I will go to class tomorrow.....and if the current events class is one giving positive vibes, I will continue with it as a live class even though it is available as a hybrid, using Zoom.  Tuesday and Wednesday classes, both hybrids, are ones that I definitely will renew.  What I have to try is a Thursday morning live class - is there one? I've reviewed and reaffirmed the books I am currently reading - all on Kindle:  "Brother of the More Famous Jack";  "Blockers"; and "The Proving Ground".  I've also reviewed my music practice routine, adding some additional songs for both piano and harmonica........I am in somewhat of a malaise vis a vis both sketching and photoshoot stuff.......weather has been too hot.....

 Not unexpected....they are a year older, a step slower and not the hungriest out there to win it all anymore. I could not watch a game at home:  MLB-TV is no more guarantee....and it probably costs a slight fortune for all the service providers who've taken their piece of the pie in advance.  I'm content to listen to the game on radio.......and if there is that rare movie on Prime or Netflix that seems interesting, I'll try watching.......... It is 29C at 10:15am.  It's gonna get hotter today and that means being content to staying home.  I can't complain about that - I'm going to do some piano playing now and then determine how the balance of the day will go - dependent, of course, on how hot it will get.....

 21C at 9:18am.  It was down to 11 in the wee small hours of the morning - especially not having turned on the heater to automatically start....nonetheless, it is going to get a bit hotter this afternoon - not what it was when it was too damned hot but hot enough to wear a T shirt (possibly) this afternoon and tomorrow. I've started Michael Lewis's Blockers.  Yeah, it is 'appealing' and down right revolting to me that this is happening......of course I'll buy the book upon completing the sample.  Tom McCarthy's The Rhys Poster is another sample I just downloaded and I'll start reading this one, too.   And then there is my main book at the moment:  Michael Connelly's The Proving ground - Lincoln Lawyer #8..  I've read #s 1-6....never read 7 but got 8 at discount price and now Ihave page turned through 35% of the book. There...that's my current reading - in addition to the New Yorker that I read online, courtesy of the Santa Monica Public Library!!...