I guess I won’t be seeing Comet Neowise. I got the image above from the internet. In the Cayman Islands, the horizion is approximately right under the words “Big Dipper”. From there, things rotate counter clockwise, pushing the Comet further below the horizon.

Not a chance of seeing it from here any more. I guess I’ll have to wait till it swings by again in another 7000 years.

It’s Friday! Have a good weekend!

I woke up this morning at 0345 to see Comet Neowise only to find out that as of Monday, it’s visible after sunset, not pre-dawn. Hope I get to see it, it’ll be gone soon.

I saw comet Hale-Bopp in 1997, it was very very cool to see, it had a quality to the eye that made me feel like I couldn’t really focus on it, even though it was plainly visible. That was the only comet I ever saw. I was alive when Haleys Comet last came by, but it wasn’t visible on its 1986 trip.

My Canadian Vacation without Canada has been mostly boring. I did some diving and beach time but the wife has been working and I’ve been kinda lonely most of the time. I’m headed back to work next week.

Enjoy your day!

My normal posting device is plugged into the charger, I’m doing this on my phone.

The contractor for the almost-a-year-old home improvement is supposed to come finish this weekend. I want this done, I want this behind me. This contractor is a delusional liar who makes me sick to be near or think of.

Try and have a good day.

In the past 90 days, I have purchased two Amazon Kindle Paperwhites. One for me, and one for my Mom. Now,everyday, it seems I get adverts from Amazon: “Hey! Wanna buy a Kindle?”

Monday again, I’m home. Wife’s working. I’m still on my Canadian Vacation. Kinda blue today.

I just finished a book, “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore“. I really really enjoyed it. One of my favorite reads ever.

I also immensly enjoyed “Ready Player One“, the book as well as the movie.

I recently finished Tau Zero, about a spaceship filled with 50 people that had damage to its decelleration equipment and kept accelerating and could not stop. Quite good. Also, I just finished Times Eye, Sunstorm and Firstborn, The Time Odyssey Trilogy by Arthur C Clarke. Really good, but I didn’t like the Arthur C Clarke movie, 2001, a Space Odyssey. (I never read the book, maybe I should.)

Don Quixote was intolerable. I choked my way through it for all the poor kids worldwide (maybe you) who were cruelly forced to read it. In hindsight, maybe it wasn’t that bad, but at the time, the ultra-long sentences and his idiotic behavior put me off.

Right now I’m reading “Hatchet” about a 13 year old boy, sole survivor of a small plane crash in the Canadian Woods. I think it’s a “Young Adults” book. It’s easy to read and good, I’m about a quarter way through. Some books, it’s hard for me to keep the characters sorted, but that’s not the case here!

So, what are some books you can recommend? Looking for ‘Excellents’ like Ready Player One and Mr Penumbras 24 Hour Bookstore. The Sci-fi’s mentioned above were good, but not ultra, grab-you by-the-throat excellent. But, I will probably try to read everything recommended by all of you, my bajillion-gazillion readers. Can’t tell if it’s good or not unless I read it.

A book that can make me laugh out loud is always good, BTW.

Yesterday was my 60th birthday. My wife made it very special. I told her “NO GIFTS!” and she got me like half a dozen. It was like Christmas morning. I will have my revenge.

And she got me a cake. Excellent cake.

Have a fantastic year! See ya tomorrow!

And I want one! I’ll be keeping an eye for a super cool one.

And today..

This is where the planet was when I emerged, 60 revolutions ago.

Have a good year!

Yesterday was a rough day. First off, Crazy Daisy Dukes was misbehaving worse than normal. Then, my little plumbing job tured into a disaster and I had to call a plumber. That took all day. Nextly my Thursday night meeting, first time we had it in-person since March 19th because of covid, didn’t go well. Only two people showed up, it was hot and buggy, the place was under remodelling and there were building materials everywhere. I was unscrewing a lightbulb, and tripped on some boards, dropped the light bulb, caught it, and it broke in my hands. I recieved a thousand tiny cuts on the front and back of my hands. Lotsa blood. Then when I got home, I got into a petty argument about nuttin’ with the wife.

It doesn’t sound so bad, written in a paragraph like that, but it was a rough day.

Lets make today better than yesterday, shall we?

Over and out.

Remember in the movie “The Matrix” when Neo takes the red pill and wakes up in the real world perti dish thing? Well, I saw one while diving:

Pretty cool, huh? This is a vase sponge like before, but attached on the wall instead of the bottom

My Canadian Vacation continues (without Canada). And the weekend is coming!

Above is a typical scene from our normal morning walk. Although technically I’m on my Canadian Vacation, I’m going into work today for my second covid 19 test. “Front line workers” get tested every four weeks.

Have a wonderful day!

I just finished the book Firstborn, by Arthur C. Clarke. I thought the whole trilogy was good, but I think I found a major error. Perth, Australia is on the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific.

I can’t believe I’d be the first to notice this, but I haven’t looked into it.

My Canadian Vacation continues. All except the Canada part. Went to the beach yesterday, Went diving Sunday. Below is a video.

The blue fish was amazing, but lost the magic on film, the loin fish had a body about as big as my thumb, with spines making him bigger than my hand.

Yesterday I also trimmed some trees and shrubs in the yard. The wife has told me how good it looks more than once, which is good.

Today is the wife’s first day back to work, no more working from home for her. In the news, Corona virus continues to grow, some of the world is re-locking down. I get my second covid test from work tomorrow.

Have a good day. Stay safe!