Four days out of circulation, no appetite, very weak, much sleep with much coughing when awake. I dragged my unwilling body to the excellent doctor's clinic at Lakeshore and Islington today. I lost seven pounds in one week.

Waning crescent 1% full tonight. Clouds and rain have come in spoiling three days of crisp, clear light. I had a Chauncy Gardner like cab driver recently. I said that it had been raining enough that maybe we would see some wild flowers early as http://aphotoaday.blogspot.com/ reported from San Francisco. "Oh no, very bad", said my driver, "Everything must come in slowly, slowly. The trees must produce their flowers all in good time to produce good fruit for good seeds that will continue to make more trees."

such a good picture deserves a new post.

Having dipped below 250 pounds last week end, I am celebrating by grazing on Chips Ahoy, tea and cereal. We are quite often too house bound, work bound, or just lazy to go out and buy real food. At other times we go on great vegetable buying safaris, make soups and salads and eat plenty of broccoli, which I prepare in my own special way. Our diets are....varied, but always with buckets of tea.

Last night , after Cathy had taken the dog out, we watched The President on 60 minutes. In The White House garden, a magnolia was in full bloom. Then the Amazing Race took us to Jaipur and, as usual, we had our obligatory visit down Wisteria Lane. Slept well. The streetcar was 25 minutes late this morning and then I fell asleep on it, waking up near Degrassi Street,(the real one). I skipped Starbucks and was late enough for work to give them an extra twenty minutes at the end of my day. A M, the big boss's birthday. Pizza and cake. We've ordered HDTV and it is spectacular, spectacular.

Bellini's La Sonnambula (?), Pavarotti duet

Early days at NASA