Today is the bank holiday Discovery Day. Like I said Friday, holidays these days are pretty much like any other day,

Lately I notice a desire to type. I want to write something, but I don’t have anything to write. I wish I had something in my brain, that I could squirt out on paper through a keyboard, but there’s nothing I’m aware of. I’ve been aware, since I was a youngster, that I have an above-average lack of creativity. Other kids assignments seemed so imagineitive and brilliant and clever, while I struggled to even come up with an idea, and then end up with a boring product.

It’s similar to the difficulty I have coming up with a topic to post every day here, kinda like drawing a blank when I always wondered what I wanted to do with my life. I guess I haven’t done too bad in life, but I’ve never myself propelled in an original, self-determined direction. A seemingly huge section of my mind, that when I look there, it’s a blank. I want to produce something, create something, but there’s nothing available.

Tomorrow here is going to be a really big day. The hardware stores open and the beaches open. It will be a normal day for me, because of my last name, I can’t go to either till Wednesday. The hardware store is going to be super duper crowded. I need a ew things, not much, some stuff to hook up an ice maker, a piece of 3/4 inch PVC and a 90 degree curve. And a new hacksaw. My hacksaw broke a couple months ago, the nut that pulls the blade tight stripped out and I kept forgetting about it until I went to use it. Life is tough without a hacksaw, lemme tell ya.

I can wait a few more days.

Stay safe!

I’m trying SwiftKey again. The spell checker that works with an external keyboard. Last time, it worked in the beginning but then weirdly swapped keyboard characters.

Last night I had a pretty pleasant dream, I was at the beach and a dolphin got washed ashore. I picked up the baby dolphin and put her back in the sea. It was like a cartoon dolphin, big eyes, overly cute.

Last week, I had another dream that I still remember. This girl from work and I were going to become knights. We were sitting on the floor, waiting to get our helmets and armor when her phone started ringing. I looked at her, wondering why she didn’t answer her phone, but it wasn’t her phone, it was my alarm clock. An thus ended the dream.

I’ve decided I don’t really need Swiftkey, the only time I need a spell checker is when I don’t know how to spell a word. I’ll leave it on for awhile, being aware that every keystroke is sent to SwiftKey.

Happy Friday! Here, Monday is a holiday, Discovery Day. It’s to commemorate Chris Colombus “discovering” the Cayman Islands back in the year 1503.

It really makes no difference with this covid lockdown. One cannot do anything, except sit at home. The year of wasted holidays. And vacations. At work, I have a vacation request approved for July, the wife and I were going to Canada. The flight is already cancelled. The accomodation is already cancelled, refund received. But the leave request is not. Hopefully the island will be re-opened by then.

2020, the year of wasted holidays, and vacations!

Have a good weekend!

Like I care…

Had a fairly long online “chat” with an Ebay service agent, he veriies that the problem is at the sellers end and my ebay reputation won’t be tarnished. I don’t think I’ve used ebay in 20 years at least. Since it first started. Ebay started like an auction place, where people bid for an item online. For me, bidding never made any sense. I’d look at the time the sale ended, go there 5 minutes early, bid at the last second and take the item if the price was low enough. Now it’s more like Amazon, where you just buy it. On Ebay, I knew the sellers had ratings, but I never knew, till yesterday, that the buyers have ratings.

It’s almost the weekend, Monday is a holiday. Makes no difference with this lockdown. In the News this morning, New Zealand pretty much opened up all the businesses. People lined up all night at the hairdressers. I bet Chris is happy.

Goldie the cat seems to be doing well, he’s getting out of the cage (for the most part) today, and he’ll be a yard cat again.

Havva Happy Thursday!

Today I’m posting my first post from my new tablet, Samsung Galaxy S6. It is quite nice. The keyboard/case that Samsung made for it got quite bad reviews though and I didn’t order it. I was looking for a keyboard/case online, Amazon doesn’t ship much down here. I did find one, but weirdly it didn’t have a “Buy Now” button. I had a friend verify this on a different computer. I guess they were showing it off but not selling it. You could add it to your Amazon list, but not buy it.

So I went to ebay. lots didn’t ship here, but after a while, I found one I liked and it supposedly shipped here. Instead of buy now, it had a “commit to buy” button. I clicked it, filled in my address and when went to the next screen to pay, I was told it didn’t ship here after all.

That was it, I was stuck. End of story. Almost.

I got a message from the seller, asking if I wanted the item, saying he was going to cancel my order because I didn’t pay. I replied but haven’t heard back from him. We can’t really communicate through ebay.

Now I’m getting emails from Ebay, saying I comitted to buy the keyboard but didn’t pay the seller. And threats that my ebay account may be marked with a bad buyer rating.

I want the keyboard, and I’m trying to buy it, but Ebay won’t let me.

It’s a real pickle.

Goldie came home yesterday. He has to take medicine for the next few days and have special food for the rest of his life. That means all the outdoor cats will be getting special food. Below is a picture of him in Ashy’s cage on his way to the vet.

Goldie seems like he feels much better now, but it still seems hard for him to pee. But he’s starving! He’s eating and drinking a lot. He’s in a large wire cage till he gets off the medicine. Which he seems ok with sometimes and not ok other times.

I woke up at 2:07AM this morning and have been up ever since. I just couldn’t sleep any more. But I’m tired now…

Have a great day!

This weekend marked a year since the passing of Sheba, our beloved pooch. Ironically, our cat Goldie spent the weekend in the veterinarians for some urinary tract problems. He’s coming home today, 100% OK. Probably from now on, all the outdoor cats will get new food, good for their “systems”. I’m surprised that regular cat food (and dog food) is not very good for the animals they were created for.

The home addition construction project, still is not done. Planning has shut down because of this covid 19 thing, and I don’t have the certificate of occupancy and they’re not being processed at this time. The construction team is coming back over today for a few finishing touches and clean up. I just want this all behind me. Keep in mind, it could have been done by Friday, the 13th of December 2019 had not the contractor screwed up on updating of the electrical drawings.

I ordered a new tablet, a Samsung Galaxu S6. Allegedly the best tablet ever created on this planet to date. The optional keyboard didn’t get good reviews, so I plan on using an old bluetooth keyboard I have. Possibly, but doubtfully, the keyboard that I have on my S3 will work on my S6….

Yesterday and today it was cloudy with high clouds and some rain. Weird weather.

Happy Monday and have a good week!

I finished Ready Player One, and started “The Art Of Racing in the Rain“. I think I’m about 18% of the way through.

It’s a dogs perspective of living with a family, fully educated and aware, but unable to communicate because his tongue is too big and soft and he doesn’t have opposable thumbs. And the man in the book is a race car driver. Before I started the book I thought it was about a dog who enjoyed being outside in the rain and running really fast.

It’s cute book, not really my thing, but I’m going to delve further into it though.

It’s Friday and it rained this morning, with hopes of more. Had some neighbors ove into the apartment next door and saw them carrying a drum kit inside. Oh joy! Maybe they’ll compete with our other neighbors who blast religious music at 6AM the past two weekends….

Have a good weekend! Enjoy some quiet!

I woke up about 15 minutes early this morning, 4:30, and got up. Now I’m slightly ahead of schedule.

I havent much to talk about today. I work, go home, and kill time. I’m re-reading the book, Ready Player One. Although I’ve read it before, parts seem new. It is quite good. And it’s just like the movie, except it’s completely different. I mean, the characters and keys are the same, but the contests and challenges are different.

Had problems with my Amazon Kindle, 2nd generation, couldn’t connect to the computer, so I reset it. then it wouldn’ register, but it’s all good now. I’ve decided I’m going to try and keep it going for as long as I can. Because it’s so old and classic. It has tons of books on it and still plenty of room.

And that’ll do’er for today. Have a good one, stay amused.

On our back porch is a large mostly unused flower pot that I dump coffee grounds and compostable stuff in, eggshells, banana peels etc. It’s good if you ever need a little bit of good dirt for another potted plant. A few years ago, I even found some big earthworms in there, don’t know how they got there, but worms are good for dirt.

Recently, we have had a pretty big plant start growing there from something dumped in the pot. For a long time, there were just big leaves, not coming over the top of the pot. Then, we started getting some big vines coming out of there.

And now they’re getting big pretty flowers.

I don’t know what I dumped in there, but my wife is guessing butternut squash. See the teeny butternut squash? The flower is apparently on the bottom of the squash.

The way I see it, is either we’ll have a whole bunch of butternut squash this summer, or else the vines will take over the whole house and we’ll die. Or both. But I figure if we can survive this co-void virus going around, we can survive some monster invader butternut squashes.

But I’ll keep ya posted. Over n’ Out.