Tuesday, September 15, 2026 

     A sleek agile black cat has been appearing in the back yard, checking out the farm plants, waiting for my roommate to appear.  They have become friends.  I am hesitant to develop a relationship with this cat or any cat.  It’s not that I don’t like cats. Several family members are allergic to cats and would stop visiting if we had one living in the house. I have learned to keep clear from cute pets to avoid getting poison oak.

     Foggy morning. Slight breeze. Garbage trucks lumbering up the street picking up the bins. Another garbage day.

     In the afternoon I walk to the mail box for the day’s mail. Not such a difficult task after all.

     We watch two more episodes of our favorite show, TRYING. So well written and we burst out laughing at the unexpected twists. I continue to read the Lebanese novel, THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE AND HIS MOTHER, by Rabih Alameddine. I love it.  The warnings of dangerous AI activities fill the news reports. It is not drones and bombs gonging to destroy us now, it is AI whatever that actually is. I want to blame this all on our corrupt president.

 

Monday, September 14, 2026

     I am cold this morning when I get up. I put on warm clothes and then close the windows. Thick fog and soon the fog dissipates. Back to winter clothes.

     I suggest to my roommate it is my turn to go to the mail box each day. Most of the mail is ads and bills. Over the last year I have slowly withdrawn further into the house.  It is the outside steps I tell myself.  Maybe? I haven’t fully recovered from last year’s sepsis treatment. Maybe?  So, this week I will see what this is all about.

     I keep checking out the internet to learn what might help me with bladder discomfort. The doctors say it is one of those conditions with no recognized effective medical treatment. I am looking for an effective off label treatment.

     A new book. THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE AND HIS MOTHER, by Rabih Alameddine, set in Lebanon. I am liking it. We watch the second half of MAY DAY, a funny bro movie.  We also watch the latest DAILY SHOW WITH John Stewart. He is so clever and funny. I am looking for a more accurate name for our president. Incompetent? Maybe, but more likely  a master criminal who pretends to be incompetent.

 

Sunday, September 13, 2026

    It is such a pleasure to be with my middle aged kids and see how competent and talented they are. It has taken time to outgrow seeing them as children. Each of these grown up humans are different, unique and wonderful. I am happy to spend time with them.

     This morning, I am a bit cold in my bedroom. The sun is out and the heat is temporarily gone. No dogs barking. I suspect my hearing is questionable. Now dogs have to be barking loudly for me to me annoyed.

     In the afternoon I am back on the deck doing my twenty minute chair exercises. I sit in the shade overlooking the wide view of the airport and Mount Toro, and the land in between. I particularly like the solitary towering pine trees. Guardians of this land.

     In the evening, we watch the first half of the movie MAYDAY on Netflix. It’s a bro film with two guys trying to escape from 1980’s Russia. Lots of comedy, laughter, fighting, fast cars, and guns. I am liking it but I don’t know, a bro film being good?  I am reading a second book by Rene Denfeld, THE TALKING BONE. I really appreciate her writing. I am not thinking of the political news today.