Monday July 22: Taking Photos, 2 Yoga Classes

I woke today after a somewhat substandard sleep as compared



 to the night before. That generally happens when I sleep really 

really well one night the next night always a hit or miss mostly a mess. Anyway, I got the Mike’s about 20 minutes 
late and we settled into a routine turned

 on the AC and Settled in. Anyway, I got Mike a couple things and a script and noticed it won’t be raining till 9 PM according to my clock. It’s an interesting

 slow day today. Which I like it’s been a lot of news and stuff around and it’s 

nice when a day operate slowly , Wes sent me this article about 



Upper Darby which was really fascinating is written back in 2021. It’s a nice story about locations in Upper Darby and 

how it’s changed over the years.. 
I posted it on Facebook. I thought that was nice of him to send me that. Anyhow, friend of mine, Tracy

invited me to go out and take pictures and critique each other‘s photographs. That was a real eye-opener. She taught


 me that I should take my photos and raw are A W. and it really helps with
close-up pictures. The colors pop 
more, etc. I’m still using my video because the video pictures allow

 a longer up and down range. We walked all the way from Rittenhouse

 Square to Terminal market. It was interesting getting directly critique. I’ve never been critiqued 

before only critiques I got were from Facebook or Instagram and if I got 

accepted to a show and I got rejected from a photo photography 

show that really stunned me a little bit, but I figured a lesson a free lesson and a little 

yoga talk would be good so that’s what I did. It’s not 2:28 PM. I’ve been 

out for couple hours and , just really overcast and it was really hard to get

 good contrast on my photos. I did buy Mike two Pepsi’s like I promised I 

would since I was gonna be gone for a little while. I might do a double today

 in yoga, depending how I feel it it is really humid. It’s not that hot. It’s just 

really humid. I returned to Mike’s and had lunch. I think I had it pretty close to my class 

so that could be a problem. Hopefully it won’t be. I plan to go to the

 4 o’clock class as usual. I just rested because I was a lot of walking and a lot of pictures I had to put this on this blog.I like ideas for 
general pictures. My video method is what I’m most comfortable with. On front the CPAC ladies gonna show up and try to fix Mike’s CPAP machine  
tomorrow so that’s the thing for tomorrow. I’m pretty tired now, but I think little walking and going to class should be good. So I left Mike’s at 3:40 which is about the latest. I can leave heading to the 4 o’clock class. I think I ate too soon. Hopefully I’ll just settle in my stomach and not make me nauseous. It’s still such a day. It’s supposed to rain a little bit, I suppose. well, I took Byron‘s class today and it was the usual very challenging but three of the yoga instructors were there and we just went through the 75 minute class and and I did OK. I reminded Byron that he only did one set of a particular pose and got a good chuckle out of that. a nice woman backed me up and everything went smoothly. Afterwards I decided for the heck of it I would do a double since Mary wasn’t gonna be home till 9:00 PM. So I went to the Pilates class with Maddie and that had to be the hardest Pilates class I’ve ever been to holy crap that was hard  because I had exercised and walked around all day because I don’t know, but it was really really difficult class. I was dying. I haven’t been that bad off since this one class in West philly I took years ago. I thanked Maddie for the good class but also expressed how hard it was and she said “this is not a beginners class and you’re not a beginner.” That’s true. I’ve been to her classes before , but maybe it was a combos extreme heat class isn’t that hot anyway, I chitchat a bit and then walk towards Mary‘s got more water and Gatorade and sat in the hallway for a while and looked at funny political memes, and talk to a couple people which would be my sister and my friend Donna.  Mary got home and we talked for a while about various topics obviously her day with getting mom’s chairs and orders then left her place around 1130 walked 15 minutes down to 15 market and caught the market Frankfurt line back home. Once home, I ate my two samosas, a yogurt and a poppy soda , and went to bed a very tired, exhausted man 

Friday, June 28: Weird Dream. Early The Hot Room

It’s 1:55 AM in the middle of the dream, I had three women interested in 

me and one of them  I didn’t even know her name. Had me set up at a Christian Dominion wedding where I had to get married to her we would know it was Divorce 



she, she was very from DC area. I climb up the threshold of stairs real last 

while all the stairs were removed. I was climbing like jungle Jim 

her room which was upstairs large log cabin building is waiting. They’re all waiting. I was ready

 to do it we never slept together , somehow I got involved 

with her. I don’t even know her name. OK, I then had to wake up at six in the morning because Mike was scheduled an 8:30 AM appointment with his urologist. This is 

pretty painful. Anyway, I am sitting here at 9:23 AM in the emergency stairwell because that waiting room is about 50° and I didn’t bring my warm shirt with me.it’s going 

to be a struggle to stay awake. I’m kind of debate. I’m just too tired. I’m just 

trying to distract myself. It’s a beautiful day out however that 

helps. The Supreme Court is made it official being homeless can be criminalized. 6 to 3 vote so it’s really it’s really up to each individual city to do what it  wants to do. They first came the homeless and I didn’t do anything…… anyway, after an 

Qhour, Mike’s appointment was done and there’s no medical emergency but just more follow up. We  waited
outside for about another hour and then

 we got picked up around 10:25 AM and we’re heading back to Mike’s to sunny day much cooler less humid than it was yesterday. Yes!! 2 more bad decisions 

came from the Supreme Court. The first decision curbs power of federal regulators, overturning 40-year precedent In the other decision, The Supreme Court stated 

that the federal prosecutors overstepped in charging some January 6 defendants. It is a good day for conservatives

 today. That’s a goddamn sure. heading out 3:15 PM I signed out at 2:39 PM because

 I showed up an hour early for Mike’s. I went to photo lounge to pick up the photos that I had 

ordered, hoping to participate in the exhibition at the Plastic club the things do by 

tomorrow of course I wait till last minute, cause that’s how I roll. I now need a nap and then we have to wait for the bus 4:00 PM to make it down to South Philly for our 5:00 PM class at The 

Hot room well, several of us met at the corner to catch the 17 bus Mary, Amy, Linda and myself. We took the 17 bus down and we got off at some weird roundabout construction site but the bus I said come on in 

back so we were able to get a ride right to the studio so we had about 20 minutes to kill and we walked around South Philly to Franklin Roosevelt Park 

and that was nice and then we went to the hot room and got a tour from Tracy of all the facilities and it’s definitely

different completely different set up. Some parts were really nice and other parts were little odd. the flooring was great in the studio this foamy stuff that you really have a good grip and there’s a nice class 
that was there as well and Robyn taught a really good 60 minute class probably the best 60 minute class 
I’ve had. We all enjoyed each other. It was

 like a reunion. It was very, very nice! Hope you can gather up some people and do that again. It just seems very difficult at times to do that but we did it pretty easily

 this time. It’s hard to be with others in groups when you’re our age used to be 

so easy. was also nice to see South Philly. I haven’t been down south Philly in a long time and 

there’s a nice tour down 20th and 19th St. gotten a lot nicer over the last 25 years that is for damn sure.