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The brain is a marvelous thing! I saw someone today whom I had not seen for probably ten years. My facial recognition software processed his image, brought up a picture of him from ten years ago (or more), and then supplied his name. Amazing! He was grayer, older, heavier, but somehow I recognized him and recalled his name.

He asked what was I doing--that ominous question that I'm starting to hate to hear. I mumbled something about getting old. I felt at a loss to say what I'm really doing--treading water. I feel embarrassed! I feel like I should be doing something of weight, of merit--and I'm not. I'm just treading water. Watching the daze go by!

It was cold today (last night). Freezing! The cold triggers my PD symptoms, which makes me feel sort of twitchy. Oh, for the warm tropics!

I awoke this morning to my fire alarm going off. I think the people below me turned on their heater. Some of the dust and lint must have ignited and vented some smoke up into my heater, and into my apartment. I shut off the alarm and checked to make sure everything was not on fire. I later reset the alarm and it behaved properly. A momentary excitement! Glad it was a false event.

Did my laundry today despite the coolness. It's supposed to rain sometime over the next few days so I thought it best to do it while it was clear. As usual, there were very few people at the laundromat. It's getting so run down that people are going elsewhere so that they don't lose their money in the non-working units. Even my regular dryer seemed not to be working fully today.

There were several street people sitting around the place. They were probably trying to thaw out from last night. If they had to sleep outside, they had to be plenty cold. One guy in a wheelchair was zonked out, sleeping like a rock. Another guy was talking away to an imaginary person--carrying on quite a conversation. He may have been on (or should have been on) some form of medication. The guy in the wheelchair wore a cap that said Vietnam Vet on it.

Dreamed last night that I was doing something in a large dining room. There were people there with plates of food--food piled high on the plates they carried. I was helping direct those with full plates to seats at the tables. The place was like a cafeteria with long lines of folding tables. Each table could seat about eight diners.

Watched a movie this afternoon--Courage Under Fire. It starred Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, and a skinny Matt Damon. Had a young (and thinner) Regina Taylor as Washington's wife. She's been busy on a series show called The Unit where she's the wife of another soldier--a little bit of type casting.

Lunch with BH tomorrow and a film with either her or GH. On my way, I may trip-toe to the library in the morning. I'll restock on films and stories--for the rainy days ahead!