Shots from the Lip

 After a hectic week, I got up early today, bundled up, took my walk, re-dressed to go out to school, went to school.....and after, prior to going home, spent a half-hour reading on the Palisade overlooking the ocean.......tranquility! We have to change the angle of the cameras outside......we can do this ourselves......the instructions are intelligible!  I had a lunch on Friday that I screwed up....I got the screwing end today....but Katherine already had made a wonderful mapodofu......... I'm down to two books for current reading:  Blockers by Michael Lewis and Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido. Nothing more to say today.......

 Here I am, solidly entrenched as a certifiable old fart, bundled up because 16 degrees C was too cold for me to go out for a morning walk.  Actually, once I awakened to the fact that there was not going to be any rain today and that this was going to be a simply beautiful morning outside, I functioned a whole lot better! It is now 12:15pm and I've just about completed all my scheduled tasks - with music practice and answering ID.me all neessary to have a completed day.  I'll go out later.....listen to game 2 of the Series....read, rest, etc, etc. for the remainder of the day......and definitely look forward to a day at the opera tomorrow. This week is (more or less) set up.  I have three mornings of classes this week and Thursday night,29 October, I will become a clown for my weekly Sweet Dreams stint at St John's Hospital......and then, on Saturday, TianTian comes....and the following morning Joanna will get here and we'll spend our time together through the end of...

 Here's the email we sent to the detective in charge from SMPD: Good morning! Both Katherine and I slept through the night.  Our SimpliSafe system did not pick up a thing...... But we woke up to find that the serial splasher was here again at an undetermined time.  He already knew where our cameras are and the 'results' on our front porch (see attached) appear to show that he quickly threw from the northern corner of our property diagonally across, towards the direction of our mail box.   This is the third time this month that he has done this.  We called 911 the first two times.  We did not call when we got up this morning but are submitting this to you directly and ask you to add this to the growing list of incidents against us.  

 ......but it is only Wednesday morning, late morning as we slept in later this morning since Lucio and his crew to build the new fence gate had to be postponed because of possible rains today and tomorrow.  It rained heavily for about an hour last night but nothing more.  There are definitely rain clouds above but the sun is out and it sure as hell don't look like its gonna rain anymore today...but who knows??? Regardless, it is cold outside - temperature here is projected to get to 19C but it never ever feels as high as the temperature shows here because of the tradewinds coming in off the Pacific. I do Sweet Dreams tonight - looking forward to doing a little bit towards community betterment.....or, as the St John's ads go:  all for the better.......

........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!