It's Saturday and we were attacked again - and more.....and more, again!

 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......

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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.

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I am purging two books from current reading:  James Ellroy's Red Sheet, set in 1962 (in L.A., obviously!) - I got some good background info I never previously had about Tom Bradley, prior to his election to LA City Council.  Since I knew Bradley and was active in Democratic Party local politics at that time, I started reading......getting through 42 per cent of the book before boredom set in......that's off my Kindle.   Off my Kobo,  Crown City by Naomi Hirahara, set in 1895 Pasadena, it was interesting through 28 per cent about culture there for both immigrants and 'Americans'.....but after 28%, I really have no idea which way this book is going and there are other things I want to read......so these two are stuck on their respective e book apps, partially read and not likely to be read any further.....such is life......

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What I am now reading - two books to concentrate upon:  RF Kuang's new, short novel, Taipei Story (on my Kindle) and (on my Kobo) I re-started If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop.  This is a book of sci-fi short stories.....I interrupted after completing four of them to read Cool Machine.......and the balance of Closing Time.  I have resumed at Archival Loss.  This is a good one- especially with the realization that I can stop at one story and resume a long time later without missing a thing.......

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