Our fellow Blogger, Nine year old Martha Payne has a blogger blog called NeverSeconds. Her blog is about school lunches and she’d take pictures of her lunch every day and count how many bites it took to eat it. She uses her blog to earn money for a kitchen for a place Called Marys Meals.

The other day, she was called to the office and told that she could not take pictures of her lunch anymore…. 

There was a huge international outcry, and apparently she has been given permission to take pictures again.

I love it when a little girl kicks the administrations ass! Read the article HERE. But in her blog, her Dad says she still can’t take photos, so I don’t know what is going on actually. We’ll see if the lunch pictures come back.

 Count your bites!

 Not bad looking to me. This reminds me of my school lunches. Except maybe we had a huge pile of overcooked blackish green squishy spinach to go with it. And everything on the tray would be floating in a half inch of spinach juice…..

Do ya eat the Popsicle or the burger first?….Only  TWO tater tots?!!?? And what kinda burger is that?? No mustard or ketchup or lettuce or tomato? Cucumber instead of pickle? 

Please Suh, I want some more!

(This is one of the things I though I’d post yesterday before my mind went blank. BTW.)

I’ve been wondering what to post this morning but I’m drawing a blank. Yesterday, I had a lot of ideas and thought todays post would be interesting and snappy. This morning all my good ideas have left me.

I woke up at 3:30 last night and was up for a couple hours, then was sleeping like a rock when the dogs woke me up.

Last night I was riding my scooter and a bat hit me in the chest. It was like getting hit with a pair of rolled up socks. The bat landed on my floorboard and I kicked him off with my foot. It was creepy.

It’s Friday, I plan on diving again this weekend. The wife and I have some type of party to go to tonight. I plan on running around today like a crazy person.

After I drink my coffee and get situated.

I’ve been wanting a telescope since forever. But it is one of those things that I want then seldom use, like my binoculars.. The problem is setting it up and taking it down and storing it…. I want a telescope but it’d be like the dog who caught the car. “what do I do with it now?”

My Wife got me started on Instagram. It is a phone app for almost any phone with internet and a camera. It is really fun. Yesterday I moved all the pictures from my phone to my computer, and here’s a few instagram photos. If you have Instagram, or get it, please follow me and I’ll follow you. MarkD60.

Queen Triggerfish

Teeny Tiny Baby

French Angel

My Dive Buddy, a stingray and friend

Arrow Crab

Says The Wife upon getting into our freezing (85 degree F) pool this morning.

I did an image search for “Fried A” and got nothing. (Every time I hear “Friday”, I think: “fried A”.) At the beach there’s a sign that says “No Loud Music Allowed” I always think “There’s two ‘louds’ in that sentence.” 

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Here’s a picture my wife took last weekend. I hated the wine glass, so I took it out. You can still see a big chunk of the wine glass in the “retouched” pic, but I don’t think you can tell what it is, or even notice it unless you see the pic WITH the wine glass. (I thought I had removed the whole thing till I compared them side by side.)

UPDATE: Here I took the rest of the wine glass out. You can still see a screwup near my watch. Maybe I’ll fix that and maybe I won’t.

Yesterday afternoon was the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It only happens twice, eight years apart, every hundred and five years or so. I took these pics at 1/2000th of  a second and F 6.3. Thereabouts.

As the sun got lower the sky got hazier and we couldn’t see much more than shown in the pictures. 

Then we went to see Men In Black III which was very good and I recommend seeing it in the theater in 3D.

Hump Day today. Insomnia was kicked in full blast last night. To bed at 10, awake at 2. Maybe snoozed about 45 minutes between 4 and 5, awake for the alarm. I’m not tired right now though.

Yesterday was a holiday here. So today is my Monday (and a lot of other peoples)

I joined this thing called Instagram, if you’re on it, please follow me, MarkD60. My Wife is on it and she was telling me how much she likes it. 

Also I’m on Twitter, I REALLY like Twitter. It is kicking Facebooks butt. If you’re on Twitter, please follow me as well,, again, MarkD60.

Attitude is an amazing thing. It is like lenses you see the world through, and it makes things seem absolutely real, even if you rationally know they are not. It’s kind of like how you feel makes it impossible to know how you feel. Usually I am unaware of how I feel, unless I suddenly get a way of comparison, like being in the same place under the same circumstances and being aware that the only thing different is me. It makes all the difference between success and failure at almost any task.

Right now I feel like I’m going around a corner and things are going to start changing for the better. I hope the feeling lasts.