54118--scarlet begonias

Up at dawn. The cat looks out the window.

We were both off and Malida had a dentist appointment, so we headed downtown early. I played Angry Birds while Malida got her teeth cleaned. After the appointment we went to the asian markets to shop. No single market has we need, so we go to three different ones. They're all in the same area, so it's no big deal. The last market we stopped at has a hot food area with dim sum, so we ate breakfast there. It was pretty good for a supermarket hot counter.


Being fortified, we proceeded directly to the nursery to pick up some plants and seeds and stuff. We have this great nursery near our house--Capital Nursery. It's a great place to just wander around.


Malida has 4 days off this weekend, and wanted something to do. We bought some tomatoes, some zucchini, a bunch of flower seeds to scatter about and some scarlet begonias. It's a good start.


The tomato section. We bought a Roma.

After we got home and got everything put away, I did the laundry and Malida cleaned the kitchen. I took a nap because I had a photoshoot in the evening and wanted to be refreshed. I usually take my naps on the sofa, with the tv going in the background. I put on an old episode of Mission Impossible, and fell right off to sleep.


Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :)

My photo assignment was to shoot some guys who are part of a pro wrestling organization here in Sacramento.


I was supposed to photograph them practicing. I thought it would be in a gym, but it was in some guy's backyard. They have a ring set up out there and that's where they practice. There's even a dog.


I only needed two pictures, but I ended up staying for the whole thing because it was interesting, and because they kept wanting to show me their moves. I took about 400 shots.

When I got home, Malida was watching thai soap operas again, so I started moving stuff around. We are having the carpets cleaned and I wanted to get as much stuff off them as I could.

I started reading a new book before bed--Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. I've never been able to finish any of his books, but I keep trying. Someone gave this to me to read on my thailand trip, but it's a huge book and I didn't feel like dragging it halfway across the world with me.

I got about 13 pages in and then it stopped making sense so I went to sleep.

54119--well you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen, you are entitled to...

I got up early and finished clearing out the rooms for the carpet cleaning guy. Then I went to the bank and took out some money to pay him with. I realized that we hadn't discussed how much it was going to be, so I took a guess and took out that much.


The room looks pretty empty. Actually, it is always pretty empty. I hated the furniture that used to be in here and got rid of it after my first wife died. Nowadays it's mostly camera junk that sits along the right side. I put most of that stuff in my already overstuffed office.


The family room. I pushed all the furniture and stuff into the kitchen. I started to vacuum the carpet before the guy came, but the vacuum cleaner died on me with a horrible shudder and an electrical burning smell. It was an eight-pound Oreck XL that I bought when I moved into my first house 20 years ago. I got my money's worth out of it.


This one is to answer the question about whether my tv sits in the fireplace. It doesn't--it's a tv nook. I'd prefer just a wall there, but I do like that the upper part is open to the front room--that was one of the things I liked when I first looked at the house.

The guy, whose name is Mike, did a great job on the carpet--it looks like new. When we discussed how much it was going to cost, he came up with a figure that was the exact amount that I had guessed. I told him that, and we were both pleased with ourselves.

I spent the rest of the day not doing much of anything. I watched a wonderful little independent movie called Cashback. It popped up in my netflix list from out of nowhere. It stars Sean Biggerstaff, who I remembered from the Harry Potter movies--he played Wood, the captain of the Quiddich team.

I had a thought today as I was listening to an old Tubes song on the radio. The song contains a reference to Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped by the SLA back in the 70s. Here's what popped into my head: "Back in my day, heiresses weren't celebrities--they were terrorists who robbed banks."
It makes sense if your head is filled with the same kind of stuff that's in mine.