BLAME ULF FOR THIS!

Because they were open when I passed by, I went in and bought a pack of State Express 555, which they sell considerably cheaper than few a tobacconist. Few, because this is the Bay Area, and many there aren't. Then I continued my pipe smoke whileheading over to where I usually wait for the bookseller to get back down to North Beach Chinatown after work. One gentleman passed by a number of times, tweaking on something. He may no have been entierly sane even when he was not zipped up, but with luck I shan't find out.
There are too many like him to want to know any of them.

A few Germans also wandered past, as well as a what may have been a marketing or sales department performing a bonding exercise involving booze, as marketing and sales often do. Ask me sometime about the boys we had out in the Midwest.

At some point, after we had dined, my friend the bookseller mentioned a German author named 'Ulf'. Which is a name of Scandinavian origin, predictably meaning 'wolf'.

We then spent three blocks walking blaming said Ulf for everything wrong with this city, the lack of public lavatories, the misfiring street lights, Mayor Lurie, and garbage.
Tweakers. Sales or marketing departments. Potholes. Potheads.

The bald gentleman who rubbed both of my legs from the crotch to the ankle with laboratory grade astroglide earlier today. It had been warmed up so as not to startle me. A Doppler scan of the femoral arteries to measure blood flow and detect narrowing, blockages, clots, or other any vascular problems. Also more or less mapping out whether the angioplasty on the dexter lower extremity last year is holding, and to see if the sinister appendage has gotten significantly worse. Ulf had a hand it that too, I am certain.

Perhaps I'm radiating charm and lovability. People have been warm all day. Gotten up to offer me a seat, greated me courteously, made sure I had refills, and not a single soul said anything negative.

I should probably point out that 'refills' in case refers to pharmaceuticals.
Amlodipine besylate and Xarelto (Rivoroxaban).
5 mg and 2.5 mg respectively.


And their warmth may have been due to cleanliness.
Naturally I showered before the Astro-glide.
So I was fresh as a daisy.



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