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Only One Shower A Week?!?

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Awww Hell no!

I read an article, somebody is saying we only need to take one shower a week. Read the article here.

I take at least 3 a day. Morning, after swimming, after work, before bed.

One a week? Only if you want to be a skuzzbucket!

This weekend a lot of places are getting an eclipse. Not here. I do hope to be under a total eclipse on a clear day someday, but that won’t be this weekend for me. I’ll be doing laundry and yard work and having a dog assessed. Below is an eclipse Shadow on Earth taken from the Mir space station.

have a great weekend!

Surprisingly Hassleless

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Over the weekend, a tourist reversed into my car and broke the tail light. I never would have noticed but they waited for me and gave me their information, driver’s license and Rental Car info. I didn’t call the police I didn’t file accident report and I expected that the repair would have to come out of my pocket because I didn’t have a police report.

Yesterday I called the rental car place and took the papers to the rental car place. They told me “no problem” , took a picture of my broken tail light, and told me to get a quote.

I went to the parts store, the part was in stock, I got the quote, took it back to the rental car place, they wrote me a check.

I took the check to the parts store and got the part. I swapped it myself last night and I was surprised at the lack of hassle.

When I took the check to the parts department the person there said “I don’t know if we can take that check” , he made a phone call, they didn’t answer, so he took the check.

it was a not unpleasant experience, and I was pleasantly surprised.

have a great day!

Special High Intensity Training

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this weekend I actually made some phone calls to find a new home for Daisy. She’s been here 5 years and still cannot walk on the leash without yanking my arm out she ignores me she is not learned the basics of living inside a house. She’s a very naughty girl.

But, I’ve had a change of heart, and I’m going to hire a special trainer to come in and see if any progress can be made in correcting her behavior.

Crazy Daisy Dukes better learn to toe the line.

Finished: Good Omens

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I finally finished Good Omens. My review below. Thumbs down, for me.

The first half was good, but I think it declined after that. To me, the humor was cheesy, and there seemed to be a lot of unnecessary side story. I thought the climax was anti climactic, without emphasis. It was just …over. But the book kept going on and on after the ending.


Your opinion may vary. A lot of people really really like this book, and I can see why, but it just didn’t do it for me.

4 Day Weekend

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Day one of the four day weekend starts with dick clouds and strong winds, and no rain. It is not going to rain no matter what, Seems like.

I’m still seeing a counselor about my divorce. But it not really about the divorce anymore.. My counselor said yesterday that my self-loathing undoes the therapy in between sessions. I recommended a lobotomy. Ha ha!

Have a great weekend!

Flying Dream

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I have sat behind the controls of an airplane and flown more than once. I know that when you turn, you tend to lose altitude and have to compensate.

Last night I dreamed I was flying and airplane and turning but I was unable to compensate and was losing altitude. In the dream I remember the realization that I must compensate for the lost altitude. I remember the feeling of uncertainty as I either could not or did not know how to maintain altitude during my turn.

What does it mean? It seems pretty obvious. The turn is a change in my life and the inability to compensate for lost altitude is difficulty in the change.

Or else it’s just a dream about flying an airplane and means nothing. Have a good long weekend!

Caterpillars Again

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Caterpillars are in my busg tree again. Last year I sprayed and killed them. Twice. This year I’m letting them eat the whole tree.

More than half the foliage is gone already. They are very voracious eaters. If the tree dies, oh well, I’m sorry. I won’t miss it.

Supposedly the caterpillars make monarch butterflies. I wonder if I’ll have cocoons?

If the tree dies, it’s coming down, cocoons or not. Killing the tree is suicide for the tree killers

Life is hard.

Baltimore Bridge Collapse

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The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore USA was hit by a Singapore based container ship. Experts are saying the collision must have been incredibly hard to bring down the double concrete pillared bridge. I believe on the left side of the top picture above you can see the partially sunken containership.

There were two pilots on board, In charge of stirring the ship, so whatever happened to make the ship lose control must have been catastrophic in itself.

Read the article HERE.

It happened about one in the morning.And there are several cars in the water. I guess we can say it was lucky it didn’t happen during rush hour because then there would have been hundreds of cars in the water. And people.

I used to work for a company in Laurel Maryland and dud a lot of jobs in Baltimore. I’ve been over that bridge many many times.

It seems impossible, surreal.

Chocolate Digestives Disaster

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I bought a package of chocolate digestive biscuits. They’re pretty good cookies (Do you see what I did there?) because they’re good and at the same time not too sweet and not 1000% sugar.

When I opened the pack, the chocolate was a little melty and got all over my fingers, so I put the rest in the fridge. When I came back for more, they were welded together, inseparable. I had to wedge a knife in between to get them apart. Lucky I didn’t lose any fingers.

I split the stack into about four parts. It was crumby and still messy. Biscuit chunks explosively flying all over as I drove the wedge between the ironclad layers.

I ate thick stacks with about 4 cookies each. It was a real disaster, a catastrophe. I’ll be getting more soon to try and improve the procedure.

It’s a back to work Monday. Long weekend, coming up!