Asleep around midnight, woke in the wee hours maybe 4-7AM? It was getting light when I fell back to sleep, awake again ~10 when the landlord knocked. Coffee, vitamins, got the bananas out of the fridge because the bottoms were getting brown but the tops were still a bit green.

South PBC parks
I got my digital camera in 2004, and invested in rechargable AA batteries and a charger thinking I'd take lots of pictures. But I never really got in the habit of making space for it in my kit, and I know where the batteries are but the charger is buried in a box somewhere. So I got a fresh 4-pack of batteries (mercury-free, not rechargable) during the week. The idea is to a) find suitable walking/jogging trails around town and b) take some pics.

I didn't make the connection until today, my non-smart cell phone's battery is on its last leg, and I've been thinking for a while that perhaps it's time to step up to this decade and adopt a smartphone. The current generation of low-end phones can probably compete with my 9-year-old camera in megapixels. So maybe the batteries were a waste of money anyway. Lord knows I haven't gotten my money's worth from the camera. Also, the cam uses an SD memory card, and my previous lappy had an integrated SD card reader but this one does not. It chafes me to keep \\shadow all set up just to be able to pull pix off my cam.

That's a roundabout intro to the topic of county parks. The two of main interest are Logger's Run, the closest, with a nature trail and 7-station exercise course; and enormous Burt Aaronson South County Regional Park, with bike path, 8-station exercise course, Daggerwing Nature Center and butterfly garden, and Coconut Cove water park, among other amenities.

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I declared my bean stew recipe "final" at version 3.5, but the text on that entry is actually rather higgledy-piggledy. My own main reference for the finalized recipe has been a Facebook "note". Fixed that. I'm making a batch today, with the last of the Sutter Home cab, before I meet up with Lisa while she's here in SoFla.

Didn't hit the gym. I only ate a couple bananas all day. I'm sure end up with a calorie overrun at The Blue Anchor Pub, which is fine, I've earned it. 2 pints of DFH 60-minute IPA, fried mushrooms, bacon-cheddar potato skins, pirate pepper pot (manhattan-style shrimp and mussel chowder).