Zero day
In hiker parlance, “zero day” means a day with the hiker spending two successive nights off trail. No hiking. A bit of a misnomer, as there is almost always a lot of work to be done: buying food and repackaging it, laundry, post office visit, route review, and lots of town food eating.
To me today [...]
Pain
Shingles.
Excruciating pain. The kind of pain that makes me want to shout, “It’s not fair!”
I usually go to the Veterans Affairs hospital in San Francisco, but wanted to get a diagnosis and treatment for the pain as soon as possible and went to the VA clinic in Oakland. Separate systems. Fill out forms. But. The [...]
Even more robins
Same spot. Rainy day. Maybe 50 robins flying around doing robin things. I had not seen this the prior three springs on Coolidge Avenue.
Walk well. God is love.
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4.8 ounces
The iPhone:
GPS device: I have already tested it with an upload to GPSMotionX app of Section A of the trail. Amazing. I can press a button and see my location relative to the trail. In seconds.
Telephone: with preloaded numbers of trail angels and vendors along the trail, and vendors for special items like shoes.
Access to [...]
The year of Vivaldi
Just for fun.
I thought I would embed a recording of one of the twelve movements of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons each month.
Winter II: Largo
I hope I remember.
Walk well. God is love.
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Generally morons
I saw some commercials today from General Motors: Buick and Cadillac. It was as if the ads had been done by college advertising students about imaginary products. General Motors has not changed. The company is still marketing gimmicks, not quality or innovation. It’s sickening. But this has been going on for decades. The solution: eliminate [...]
Blue coyotes
I wish they weren’t blue. It’s not that they are unhappy, but that my camera in “program automatic” mode just happens to leave out the red and green information. More than 50 great pictures lost. Well, not necessarily great, but possibly usable.
I hiked from Kennedy Grove to Inspiration Point along the Bay Area Ridge Trail. [...]
Common ground
I heard Sister Helen Prejean give the homily at Mass at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco one day. There is a special light about her. She is best known as the nun who was the spiritual advisor to two men on Louisianna’s death row. And from the book she wrote about that experience. [...]
Pencil and paper
I am thinking of disconnecting.
Apple Inc. has applied for a patent that will allow the company to force users of the company’s products to watch ads. To have to answer questions about the ad before proceeding. The advantage to the consumer will be lower prices for the product. I do not like this. Even the [...]
Green Jello
Fifty years since I have eaten Jello. Today, though, it is one of the few things I can eat. As long as it is not red. I am to be subjected to a colonoscopy tomorrow.
So far I have drunk 32 ounces of water. Three times. One large bowl of Jello. At three, I am to [...]