Saw James at the Dyckman pier this morning, he had a Cooper's. Then I saw Joe and Danny at the point. There was an adult Bald Eagle perched in the Riverdale forest above the train tracks. Didn't talk to driver on the way to Englewood. Got my covid test right behind Scott. Christina took my sample. She didn't have her long lashes on today. Relieved Mac at flashcam. He called Geoff for an issue witht eh telos. Geoff was at the hospital with his ill father. He said Rich had a baby and last week he called Rich with an issue when Rich was at home on paternity leave. Diaz asked me to go into PCR2 and put black online. It was only the second time I've been in PCR2. Kyle relieved me at 11 as Greg was getting involved with the telos troubleshoot. Mike has to come in 4am on Friday. I called the dental office in midtown. The paperwork was good and I wasn't able to reschedule. Left the building and walked to Witte Field. A male and female house finch flushed from behind a sedan in the parking lot and perched in a bare tree. Only Juncos and White-throated sparrows in the fields. Ate beyond meat chili with rice and corn for lunch. Rahel was at flash2 for the 1 o'clock and Mike flash1. Brian showed up around 1:40p to relieve me. I stayed for the promo and left the building in unison with Tom. Brushed teeth quickly in the big west end bathroom. Uber driver played reggeatone to midtown. He almost hit a coupled being cute in a time square crosswalk. i was early so i went into bookoff. there were a lot of people changing in stuff for cash. every few minutes they would make an announcement for customers to come and claim the value of their sales. A girl organizing the dvds was very cute, i walked passed her unnecessarily twice. the assistant x-rayed my teeth. dentists said i need a root canal. i might not need a root canal. he's going to see what he can do. might use porcelain or something. his wife is also a dentist in the same office. she started a water leak while he was cleaning my teeth. then she took a picture of me and the dentist and sent it to my mom. the dentist gave me a baggy of teeth cleaning supplies. i went back to bookoff and bought an italian language copy of the decamaron, $14.50. whipped out the binoculars in throwback fountain park. counted about a dozen white-throated sparrows and walked down to Bryant Park. a couple catbirds and a bunch more white-throated sparrows. saw one overnbird strutting around a person's dirty sneaker feet. I was on the platform waiting for an A by 4:55p. had to buy a single ride metro car pass. a younger man approached a man wearing veterans branded stuff and started talking about being in the service. the younger man said he made a huge mistake smoking pot during training camp and being kicked out of the army. somehow that decision was influenced by his parents, so it was his parents' fault he wasn't still in the army and now a veteran and able to retire at an early age. the actual veteran, who was a small dark skinned man who looked pretty tired, seemed unsympathetic, reserved. did laundry, called anna, called chris, bought some hummus and guaco and fine and fare. some man was in really bad shape in the store. he paid for an open can of coke while accusing someone of stealing his cigarettes. no one made an effort to move him out of the store. he was filthy and not wearing his mask. watched some jeopardy, wheel, mandalorian and part of salem's lot. david dinkens died today. they found some shiny monolith in utah and biden introduced his cabinet members. the dow hit 30k. two decent sized bugs in kitchen earlier. killed one with my travel tumbler.