lol. I’ve done that before. 🤫

Not too long ago, I left a package of oatmeal with the pineapples.

Then I used the self checkout and GTFO of there. The oatmeal would balance out the accusation of “working for the store.”

FYI,

There’s almost nothing to go on here, but I was overhearing an interview in Bojangles (fast food restaurant) this morning during breakfast. I don’t know if it’s counter, kitchen, lead, but starting rate mentioned was $11/hour, with a promise of, “maybe I can get you a little bit more depending on the manager.”

Whether this is normal or not, I don’t know.

I can look at old photos for long stretches of time and be quite content.

Subject and whether color or b&w don’t matter to me as much as the pics having some age on them.

A friend in Mexico City dropped me off at his grandmother’s decades ago while he did a few errands that had urgently come up.

The grandmother and I spent the day looking through boxes of her old photos. She described many of them and talked about many related things. What a great day, especially for building vocabulary in Spanish.

She broke out some wine and snacks, then said, “want to go to the patio for a smoke?” Heck yeah. She was fun.

My friend, who was only to be gone for an hour, returned some six hours later with profuse apologies.

No apologies! We had a good time.

Photography, like the telephone and air travel, I view as a miracle.

My dentist is over 70 years old.

He’s a little bit funny when asked about it. He will say:

— well, I still like it.
— I really don’t have anything else to do.
— the money is still pretty good.

I will continue to be a patient until one of us calls it quits.

2004. I’ve got the hat on.