Monday morning and the start of the 6 week summer session

We started early today.  Katherine has her volunteer services workday at St John's and I went downtown to refresh our transportation Tap Cards and adjust my six week summer session at Santa Monica College.  I am dropping my Monday afternoon digital photography class.  It concentrates upon Photoshop for more than just starting users.  I would be a starting user who has no desire to truly learn that software......so I have (more or less) decided to change my M10 to monochrome mode  and use it - at least once a month - on an urban photography photoshoot.  It is a wonderful camera with the most phenomenal lens I have ever used.  Alas, it is too fucking heavy and I have eye strain focusing with the rangefinder - age has its camera-user problems........   But the CL, with autofocus and a weight light enough to take the camera with a neck strap for a day, is now my primary schlep along......and I am quite happy with that!  I have a wide angle as my standard lens and two zoom lenses (18-55mm and 55-105mm) - a complete system that works for my ageing eyes.

And I've added a Wednesday morning History of Comedy theatre arts class.  This one is hybrid although I do plan to attend at the Emeritus building starting two mornings from now.  I also have a Thursday afternoon 'home improvements/fix-it' class.  Margaret Ross, a retiree from Portland, Oregon conducts this Zoom class which is a good 'refresher' for what to do when things break down.  Emphasis for me is to find another handyman to replace Hughie who left Santa Monica for Dublin, Ireland.

AND...........I am 'creating' the time I need to continue doing stand-up!  I like it too much not to get involved more.........and more on that, later............

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