Xanadu

Had good night sleep but can't remember the dreams (but they were good).

Breakfast: Stonyfield Strawberry Yogurt

Lunch: Two Pumpernickel rounds; raisins; dried cranberries; peanut butter and crackers

Dinner: Peanuts

Liquids: Two coffees, one Propel, three Pilsner Urquells, several glasses wine.

Walked over 13,000 steps

Including a walk through my childhood neighborhood. It's amazing how small the neighborhood seems, when I was young, it seemed like a large landscape. Yet I whipped through the streets in no time at all and was amazed that the convenience stores were maybe a 2-3 minute walk from my childhood home yet when I was a kid, it seemed like a real chore to have to walk there.

One startling thing. As I walked up my old street, I remembered a warm summer night walking my dog (obviously not the dog I have now) when I took it off the lease (a chain lease) and throwing it up in the air and catching it. At the bottom of my street, the lease wrapped around a power line. This was back around 1975. I looked up and sure enough, the chain was still there. A bit rusted but still there after some 32+ years.

The neighborhood was literally falling apart. Houses abandoned, some of them boarded up. It was pretty sad to see.