I’ve been hearing a new thing on the BBC lately that I really think is funny. The reporters have started saying “on the ground” all the time. “We now go to our correspondent Jane Doe who is on the ground in Kosovo.” They must have said it at least five times in the 5AM (1000 GMT) news and during the BBC show “Outside Source”.

It cracks me up, ‘on the ground’ as opposed to what? Floating in the sea? Hovering in the air? “We take you live to Richard Smith who is sitting in a tree in Southern France.” “We take you to Lilly Bloomer who is standing on one foot atop a flag pole in the Ukraine.”

There’s nothing wrong with it really, I know that they mean “on the scene” but “on the ground” is just funny to me because I wonder where people would think the reporter was if they didn’t tell us he was “on the ground”. And I hear the phrase being used more and more.

I love the BBC, I listen every day and think they’re the best, just FYI.

From a chair on the second floor of my house here in Grand Cayman, I hope you have a good week!

The weatherman says rain till next week, but this morning looks like it’s going to be a nice, sunny day. Everybody just keep quiet and maybe he won’t notice!

not lookin' bad!

I’m ready for a sunny day. It’s been cloudy since Tuesday.

Have a good weekend!

It is a cold, gray, lugubrious windy day.

lugubrious clouds

It would be a good day to stay home in bed. That front you can see in yesterdays pictures became stationary, so now we’re stuck under a cloudbank.

Yesterday, my main USB memory stick died. I had a lot of stuff on it, and my last backup was quite a long time ago.

mine was one like these

I’m going to have to try and find another…

Today at work I have to get my airside drivers license renewed, so I can drive where the airplanes are. I have driven airside exactly once since I’ve been working at the airport… But you never know when you’ll need it.

Have  a good  day!

We had some much needed rain last night/this morning. It is still cloudy and very windy.

I predict it will be sunny and clear by noon. It’s quite windy right now.

I need to get my rebreather worked  on, it needs maintenance and won’t pass it’s pre dive checks. Maybe that’s something I can have taken care of today.

I’m running late and need to get going. So long for now!

Happy Tuesday!
Woke up this morning about one minute before the  alarm went off. Got up, exercised, shaved showered fed cats walked dogs made coffee and now I’m sitting here.
Today is a good day because I’ll probably spend time  outside the  office today. The equipment I went to school for is having some maintenance done on it. So I’m going!

It’s been very windy from the south for the past couple of days. That means my lunch spot is quite rough. It was rough yesterday and I’m sure it will be rougher today.

This is a pic I took yesterday, It doesn’t look rough, but you can’t see the actual shore. Besides “rough” for this place really isn’t rough at all.

Coffee good this morning.

I don’t have much to post about. On the BBC in the mornings, that South African guy, Pistorius, has been giving testimony at his murder trial. Glad I’m not him. He’s crying and throwing up on the stand. I’ve only heard his side of the story though..  No comment. If you go to the BBC website, you can listen, live.

That’s about it for today. Have a terrific Tuesday!

When the alarm went off this morning, I was in the middle of a dream, dreaming I was working. My first thought was, “At least it’s Friday” Then I woke up…to a Monday…

Rude awakening..It’s all good though, I got the cats and dogs fed and walked, took the garbage out and I have about an hour before I need to leave for work.

And that’s it, I ‘m just ready for the week to get going.

Have a good day and a good week!

My first Friday since I’ve been back from Kansas. It seems like the week went by pretty fast. But, I’m looking forward to the weekend.

Here’s a couple of pictures, one from diving last weekend and one from snorkeling yesterday Running late this morning. Sheba woke us up at 3:34, (It’s always 3:30, plus or minus a little, notice that?) barking at a yowling cat, then just as I was dozing off again she started barking again. When the alarm went off I set the timer for 30 minutes. When that went off, I got up and waited for The Wife to get up and use the bathroom to go to the gym. Meanwhile I walked the dogs and fed the cat. Now I’m coffeeing it, and waiting to leave for work.

Have a good weekend!!

I finally got all my pictures from Dropbox, (one by one), I got them off my camera and my phone and have them sorted by date.

I got Feedly sorted as well, thanks to TexWisGirl straightening me out.

And now some pictures from my trip.

A boat in the Gulf of Mexico taken from the plane. Looks like a comet!

Standing in line ag Oklahoma Joes Barbecue. The only ten minutes in Kansas that I wasn’t freezing to death.

Disc Golf discs for sale.

Doug, his Mom, me and Phill, a good chunk of “the gang” I grew up with.

An 1101 with no engines outside the Airlines History museum in Kansas. With Danny, who attended the school with me, Megan from Selex and me.

Inside the museum

And that’s it for today, there’ll be more tomorrow!

I have been trying to download the pictures from Dropbox. I download the zip and it’s corrupt, I am currently downloading them one by one, but the connections seems to be reset before the file downloads.

And Feedly, where I comment on everyones blogs, has changed for the worse. There seems to be no more login using the Feedly username and password, they want me to log in linking another account. I don’t want to link all my accounts. So I’m done with Feedly if I can’t get it figured out.

Are you Feedly users having problems? I might not have noticed if I hadn’t been logged out for three weeks and had to log in again.

Yesterday started rough, today’s starting rough, it can only get better from here!