Wake up late. Go to the office. Work all morning. Walk to the jail. Go in for a consultation. Go to the courthouse for a couple of hearings. Return phone calls. Walk back to the office. Work on a response brief. The more I work today the better I feel. Get home tired. Go for a walk. Walk up St. Paul Avenue to 13th Street. Walk up Clyborn Avenue to 16th Street. Listen to the start of the Packers-Raiders preseason game. Walk south to Kilbourn Avenue. Walk down to the Fiserv Forum. Walk back home. Feel much better tonight.
Depressed and a BLT at Schreiner’s
Wake up in a bad mood. It carries over throughout the whole day. Drive to Fox Point for cryotherapy. Drive to Fond du Lac. Stop at Schreiner’s Restaurant for lunch. See alot of old people. Have a BLT. Feel depressed. Go to the Taycheedah Correctional Institution to meet a client. It does not go well. Awful really. Drive home. Depressed. Appear for a court case over the phone while I am driving. In the afternoon walk along the lakefront to UW-Milwaukee. Walk back downtown. Stop at Denim Park to see the outdoor concert. Walk by the Fiserv Forum. See some court reporters at a table having beers. Say hello to them. Walk over to Pere Marquette Park to see another outdoor concert. Walk home. Depressed all day.
Skyline music
Go to court for status hearings. Get stuck listening to the sentencing on another defendant. Child abuse case. Go home. Take a quick nap. Go to the office. Work all afternoon. Walk to the post office to drop off letters. Walk along the lakefront to Northpoint. Stop at the custard stand for a cheeseburger and strawberry shake. Walk up North Avenue. Walk past the outdoor Skyline Music Series concert on the hill. Walk back downtown.
Walking south
In the morning drive to Fox Point to do Cryotherapy. Walk to the office. Frustrating day of work. In the afternoon walk to Bay View. Continue walking south to St. Francis. Walk back north along 6th Street. Listen to music from days one and two of Woodstock.
Baby Skyy in my arms
In the morning listen to the end of the Woodstock concert with the Jimi Hendrix performance. Walk to the north side. Head up Fond du Lac Avenue to the corner of Sherman Boulevard and Ruby Avenue. Stop to see Latia. Hold baby Skyy in my arms. She sleeps so peacefully. Hang out there for a while. Leave out. Walk up to Hampton Avenue. Walk east to Oakland Avenue. Walk south all the way back downtown as the sun sets. Beautiful warm late summer evening.
Another day of Woodstock
At dawn wake up to hear the start of the performance by The Who. Fall back asleep. Wake up to listen to the Jefferson Airplane. Walk up the Hank Aaron trail to 76th Street. Walk north to Wisconsin Avenue. Walk back downtown while listening to Joe Cocker’s set. At sunset walk along the lakefront to Capitol Drive. Walk south on Humboldt. Listen to Ten Years After and The Band. Go to bed while listening to Blood, Sweat and Tears. Wake up later to hear a little bit of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
More Woodstock
Go to the courthouse in the morning for a status hearing. Drive to Racine for more court. Go to Kenosha to shop at Sam’s Club and grab lunch at HuHot. Go back to the Racine courthouse in the afternoon for more court. Drive home. Tired. Lay around and listen to more Woodstock. Listen to Mountain and The Grateful Dead. Fall asleep. Wake up to hear Janis Joplin. Half awake and half asleep. I can hear the pain of the blues in her raspy voice. It is mesmerizing. Fall back asleep.
Woodstock – as it happened
Go to court in the morning for a couple of status hearings. Drive to Fox Point for another Cryotherapy session. Take a short walk over lunch. Walk along the lakefront up to the Brady Street Bridge then back downtown. Walk to court for a couple of afternoon hearings. Walk to the office. Walk home. Walk south to Bay View. Walk to Lincoln Avenue. Walk north on 16th Street back downtown. Finish listening to the fourth book in the Robert Caro Series on Lyndon Johnson: “The Passage of Power” (2012). My mood improves the longer the walk goes on. Stumble across a broadcast of the first night of the Woodstock concert played minute-by-minute exactly as it happened on August 15, 1969. A radio station in Philadelphia is putting it on: “The innovative as if you were there broadcast on WXPN will include all of the stage announcements, and even the breaks between artist sets, to stay in sync with the timing and length of the original event.” Outstanding.
Cryotherapy is working
Wake up amazed that my knees and legs are not sore. I am positive. I usually am slow and down in the morning. Not today. Make an appointment to get in for more cryotherapy. It is working. Drive to Fox Point. Go in for the treatment. Drive back to court in the rain. Go to preliminary hearing. Go to the jail for a consultation. Go home. Do a water change on the fish tank while watching “Woodstock” (1970). Go to Orange Theory for the noon workout. The gym is packed. Today is “Inferno”. Walk home. Take a shower. Walk back to the courthouse for another hearing. Stop in the jail for another consultation. Walk home. Take a quick nap on the couch while more “Woodstock” is playing. Walk down to the lakefront. Walk along the lakefront to Northpoint. Walk along the river back downtown. Stop to see the outdoor concerts in Denim Park and Pere Marquette Park.
Better and better
Go to court in the morning for a preliminary hearing. Drive to Fox Point for another cryotherapy treatment. Walk to the office. Work on some stuff. Walk to the jail for consultations. Walk back to the office. Work on more stuff. Walk along the lakefront and head over to UW-Milwaukee. Walk back downtown as a full moon rises in the sky. I started out on this walk still depressed and sad but as it went on I felt better and better.
