06-21-2026 Walk

Happy Summer Day! I slept until 8:00, catching up from the lack of sleep on the redeye flight the night before (<>). Got up and had some coffee and a piece of toast, keeping it light because we were going out for brunch later. I chilled around the house in the morning, had to work on getting the printer to connect to the PC. The wireless connection might not be working any more, and I ended up hooking the printer to the computer using an Ethernet cable. That seemed to do the trick. We left the house a little before 11:30 and drove to The French Oven in Scripps Ranch. It was pretty crowded, for Father's Day I guess, but Ann got us a table while I waited in line to place our order. Food was good, the almond croissant in particular. I had coffee, which jazzed me up a bit. From there we drove down to the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, parking in a neighborhood and walking to the museum. There was a wedding taking place, so with our senior discounts it was only $15 for both of us to enter. The museum was featuring an exhibition of art from the Dean collection (Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys) titled Giants. It was pretty interesting. We walked through most of the exhibit before sitting down to watch a video interview of the two of them where they explained their philosophy of art collecting. It definitely changed my perception of them as well as the collection, made the visit much more worthwhile. After walking through the museum we walked back to the car, and then I drove us to a speakeasy in North Park called Part Time Lover. This place had a nice vibe, was maybe a little too dark for my taste, but the drinks were good and the music was all LPs spun by a guy who was pulling records out of a very esoteric collection in the back. I think it was a success. No need to go back, but the experience was a fun, interesting one. We drove home from there, ate a light supper, and called it an evening.