the picture in the above banner, is from Holbox, Mexico in 2010. I’ve been thinking it’s time for a new banner, almost identical perhaps with me sitting in a pool, but no cigar and I now have a beard. I’m 15 years older now than I was in that picture .
The existing banner kind of sets the identy of the site perhaps…
Any ideas for a background ? Any ideas at all?
Happy Friday !!!
The other day I was on YouTube and exited because I couldn’t close an ad. Even after I exited, the advertisement kept on playing even though I had closed YouTube and cleared all the running apps on my device. In this case, I hit the power button to stop the advertisement.
On my drink water app it will sometimes pop up an advertisement after I make an entry, but before I can enter the amount. This makes me use the app killer, then go back to enter the amount of water. I’m not going to watch a 30 second advertisement when it takes 5 seconds to make an entry on the app.
In the beginning days of computers, this was the goal of the virus. To take control of your device. To open a program that the owner of the machine could not shut down. Now the advertisers are using the virus techniques to run their advertising.
if you’re advertisement displays the qualities of a virus or a worm or a hijacker then it should be treated as if it actually is a virus a worm or a hijacker and you, the advertiser, are the bad guy.
let me guarantee you this, if you are an advertiser and you employ this virus like technique to try to force your ad upon me, I will boycott your product till the day I die and tell all my friends to do the same.
Be Advised.
I really enjoyed this book, finished yesterday. Many self-help books, while being helpful, are boring. This one isn’t boring. There’s a lot of good things you can use as a daily meditator and is the kind of book you will come back to reread.
Also the author recommends that you open it up to a random page and read randomly, this is also the kind of book that that would be easily done. All the parts are good and mostly “free standing”, in other words, the meaning isn’t lost when taken out of context.
Very enjoyable to read.
Working on 1000 days of AUM
Have a great day!
This morning’s sunrise.
A gigantic leaf from a plant I thought was dead.
I had travel dreams last night. I have a couple trips booked, both to the US, but I want to make it to Panama this year.
Have a great day!
I didn’t really follow the Olympics this time. What caught my attention most was the boxing, where the gender was in question of some of the contestants. If the contestant in question was born female, with a female passport etc etc etc, why was this contestant eliminated from previous events because of gender?
Also the open water swimming in the polluted river. The Olympics had the surfing portion in the Tahitian Islands. Why not have the triathlons and swimming there?
I understand there was the break dancing in the olympics?? Is that a sport?
I read an article recently about it not being worthwhile for a city to host the Olympics, The expense is millions on stadiums and facilities and then after the Olympics those stadiums and facilities are not used. The article went on to state that only two cities volunteered to host the Olympics. It used to be many cities wanted to host the Olympics.
But like I said, I have not followed the Olympics I see the clickbait headlines on the internet browser, I don’t know if my opinion is accurate or not. But the Olympics seem pretty disappointing for someone who didn’t even really look.
Happy Monday have a great day!
There’s an orange one on the map this morning, yesterday there was a yellow one to our south that must have simply disappeared. I just wish we would get some rain, it only rains In West Bay when we have a hurricane I guess. It will rain everywhere else in Grand Cayman except West Bay.
They say it can rain in George Town and not West Bay, but when it rains in West !ay, it’s raining all over the world!
Have a great weekend!
Last evening I got bitten (stung?) on my 4th right toe by a centipede. I was on my front porch with my hair trimmers, minding my own business when suddenly, OW!
This was my first time getting bit by a centipede. It kept me awake at first I couldn’t even lay down comfortably. I woke up this morning feeling fine. The pain lasted for about 6 hours I reckon. I might have had a little fever too because it seemed kind of warmer than usual in the air conditioning last night.
The centipede did not survive the encounter
I don’t know the benefit of these creatures to earth, same as mosquitoes. What could do they serve? I guess there’s a reason but…..
Tomorrow is Friday! The week went by fast. I remember monday, the week looked daunting and huge. Unsurmountable.
The plant I thought was dead is coming back to life quite nicely. Pictured is a small leaf, but also a huge leaf is unrolling, and another “spike” is coming up. I’m very pleased that I didn’t throw it out when I thought it was dead. I just left it where it was, I kept watering the dirt, and I don’t even know why. I’m glad I did though!
Happy hump day!
last night I had a lot of dreams. I dreamed I was in a jungle with a small car and I woke up when I came to a 2 foot “bump” that I couldn’t get over in the car. I think it was Panama
I had a dream that I was on a bicycle at a red light, when the turn lane arrow came on for me to turn, it wasn’t the green arrow, it was a big drop of water with a red plus sign on it a symbol like you might see on the water fountain where you would refill your water bottle at the airport or something. And it was a big screen TV across the roadway instead of your regular street lights. I woke up then, because when I didn’t know whether I should go or not. I was trying to see the symbol.. I was surprised nobody behind me beeped at me to get going.
Aaand I had a dream that I was in a restaurant with a group of friends, the manager came over and said the owner wanted to talk to me and one other guy because we had gotten into a big fist fight in the restaurant a few weeks earlier. We were walking to the manager’s office when I woke up.
There were a lot of dreams last night, it seems like I haven’t had any dreams in a long time. I was actually glad when the alarm went off for a change, and I feel really good this morning. So it was a good night’s sleep I think.
Have a great day!
I saw this by the roadside for sale . Must be an individual imported it and is selling it. It has no plates. 289 km is about 175 miles, which means they’re going to try and sell it as new. I’ll probably call, but won’t pay top dollar for it. If I was going to buy new, Cayman has a dealer selling new with the warranty and rust protection and three years registration. I don’t want a new car, because of the instant depreciation. But I do like these Suzuki Jimnys. I don’t like that it’s yellow.
it was a good weekend with dinners out and beach (I didn’t get my eye wet yet) and lawn mowing. I don’t want to go back to work.
Have a great week!