Same routine:  We’ve had our early walk and our breakfast.   Soon we’ll have our swim.

The beach was lovely yesterday.  I allowed myself ten minutes on a bench in the sun (with plenty of SPF 50 sunscreen on any exposed skin), but otherwise made myself comfortable at a well-shaded picnic table, where I read.  (I was reading Freakonomics, which I’d found at the book exchange in our building.  I found it intriguing, but ultimately not very satisfying.)

The only annoying thing is that my iPhone is apparently unable to make calls from this area.  I have no idea why not, and it’s pretty annoying to pay this much for a plan and not be able to make any calls.  (I can receive calls just fine.)  I’ll have to ask Verizon WTF.  Yet another item on my todo list.

We got home to discover that Mom and Dad were planning a library trip, and that they could renew their beach stickers at the library.  They had a bunch of errands to do (including a frustrating and protracted visit to the bank to figure out an inaccuracy in the 1099).  But the returned, eventually, and were glad to have the stickers.  So later this morning we’ll be able to avail ourselves of them and park in the residents’ area at the beach.

I also had a chance to speak to one of my cousins.  I’ll see him tomorrow, but it was fun to chat a little in the meantime.  And I had email from an old friend that I hadn’t heard from in ages and who wants to send me something (but will wait until I’m home again).

I still need to deal with the printer.  One thing that occurs to me is that my father has been postponing the replacement of some cartridges that the printer thinks need replacing.  It’s not impossible that, until they’ve been replaced, the printer won’t respond to updates; I confess that I don’t understand these things very well.  And I’ve had some helpful advice from a friend and colleague about following through, so later today, when we’ve replaced the cartridges, I’ll check that out more fully.