In the morning walk to the office. Work all morning. Accomplish quite a bit. Walk home for lunch. Walk back to the office in the afternoon. Work a little more. Walk west on Wisconsin Avenue. It is empty. Unreal. Walk to the post office to send out some letters. At sunset walk to the lakefront. Scatter out some Fritos to a bunch of geese. The seagulls swoop in to get their share too. Being in the center of a maelstrom of wild birds circling me is exhilirating. Walk back home.
Take a selfie
In the morning go to the Criminal Justice Facility for a bail hearing. In the afternoon walk along the lakefront to the Brady Street Bridge. Walk up the Oak Leaf Trail to Capitol Drive. Take a selfie. I look good. Put it on Facebook. Stop at Culver’s and beg them to serve me even though I walked up instead of using the drive through. They do! Get a cheeseburger and fries. Walk south through Lake Park and back downtown. Feel great.
The lake under the rising sun
In the morning walk down to the lakefront and up to the Brady Street Bridge. It is a nice sunny morning. Take a picture of the lake under rising sun. In the afternoon walk up the Oak Leaf Trail to Capitol Drive. Walk south to Lake Park and back downtown. Very nice time.
Done by Friday
In the morning walk to the office. Write out a list of tasks for next week. I will check each one off the list. Done by Friday. In the afternoon walk along the lakefront to Prospect Avenue. Walk along the river back downtown. Think about how to connect the parts of the book together. Begin to solve the puzzle. Will get the book on track with a plan for completion. Done by Friday. At night walk west on St. Paul Avenue. Feed some wayward and isolated geese as I walk into the setting sun. Begin to feel warm and out of breath. Covid symptons. Walk home. Take a cold shower and lay on the couch. I feel very calm and relaxed. No Covid. Text with Latia too by the way.
Zoom
Sleep late this morning. Walk to the office. Send and receive a handful of e-mails. Without leaving my office, participate in a court hearing over Zoom. At sunset walk along the lakefront to Northpoint. Feed some bird seed to several geese along the way. Tired all day. Tomorrow will be better.
They work great
In the morning go to the Criminal Justice Facility for a couple of hearings. Walk to the office in the afternoon. Walk back home. The AirPods arrived today! The set up is super easy. I try them out. They work great. Go for a walk. Walk along the lakefront. Walk to the Brady Street bridge. Head across the bridge and then go north on the Oak Leaf Trail to Capitol Drive. Out of habit, I off and on reach around to adjust the cords on the ear pods and realize they are not there. The old ear pods used to get so tangled up. Sometimes they got so twisted that it made me swear. Not any more! These new AirPods require no effort to wear. They did however run out of power towards the end of the walk. I just popped them into the charging case. The recharge went pretty quick. They were ready to go again for several hours. That was not needed as I was already back home. Very satisfied with this new Apple product.
Let my mind relax
In the morning walk to the office. Get a reasonable amount of work done. In the afternoon try to work some more on the book. Get frustrated. Make little progress on it. Go for a walk. Walk along the lakefront. I let my mind relax. The ideas open up to me. I sort out the difficulties I was having organizing the outline for the first third of the book. Feel great. Walk all the way to UW-Milwaukee. Walk south through Lake Park. Walk back down to the lakefront. Walk back downtown. Listen to the last part of an audiobook on Russian History. Learn all about the fall of Communism and the failure of democracy to take hold in the new Russia. At night walk back to the office to get files ready for tomorrow. Return to the book and get frustrated with it all over again. Lay on the couch and let my mind return to a relaxed state. Very nice. The book is back on track. I go to bed tonight quite satisfied that the book is going to be very special.
Not crowded today
In the morning drive to Racine. Go to the Law Enforcement Center for a hearing. The client is brought to court with a face mask. Argue for a bail reduction. Granted. Drive back to Sam’s Club. Not crowded today. Shopping is a pleasant experience. In the afternoon walk along the lakefront to Northpoint. At sunset walk up the Oak Leaf Trail to Prospect Avenue. Walk west on North Avenue. Follow the river walk back downtown. Walk by the Fiserv Forum. Think about all the Bucks games that have been cancelled.
The philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche
In the morning drive to Racine. Go to the old public visitation booths in the Law Enforcement Building. Sit there for an hour waiting to see the client. An argument breaks out between inmates on the other side of the glass. My client gets into the argument. He can’t help it. He is drawn to conflict like a bee is to honey. Drive to Sam’s Club. The lines are very long. Frustrating. I hate slow people. Fucking hate that. Get home and crash out. Watch Youtube videos discussing the philosopy of Frederick Nietzsche.
Sandburg Residence Hall
In the morning start out towards the lakefront. I am skeptical that I will get very far. It is windy and gray out here. My legs are sore. I am not inspired. The more I walk the better it gets. Walk all the way to Northpoint. Walk down Farwell Avenue and up Brady Street. In the afternoon set out on a much longer walk. Walk up the Oak Leaf Trail to Edgewood Avenue. Walk south on Maryland Avenue. Cut through UW-Milwaukee. Walk up to the Sandburg Residence Halls. The dorms are emptied out. The whole school is sut down. There is no one out here. Walk through Lake Park. Walk down to the lakefront. Wander back downtown. At night pop up to the office to pick up some files for tomorrow. Go over 40,000 steps.
