Happy Monday! I recorded speeches all weekend and edited the audio.
Kansas City won the Super Bowl. It’s all good.
Heres a sun rays picture I took last week.
I think it’s a pretty cool shot.
Have a great week !
its all good!
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Cayman Roundup 2024
The Cayman Islands 15th annual Roundup starts tomorrow. As usual, I am providing the sound system and recording the audio.
I’m taking a vacation day tomorrow to get set up. The venue, the South Sound Community Center, has been undergoing remodeling and I hope it’s done and fully functional!
It should be a great weekend!
Quite Damaging Nor’Easter
Our Nor’Easter continues , there was quite a lot of damage to the waterfront. It reminds me of Hurricane Michelle, which, from far away, sent huge waves that broke open the turtle farm and put a big wave through my apartment in 2001.
Above is a picture I took of Don Foster’s Dive Center. The waves were regularly hitting the porch (on the left) while I was there. The porch itself was full of sand and the furniture was missing or broken.
I’m sure there will be more pictures coming out today
Hurricane Michelle did $28 million in damage, I’m sure this will compare. And this nor’easter is pummeling us for a longer period of time.
More to come.
Windstorm!
We’re having a real windstorm right now. On the dog walk we saw some big branches down and some cables off of light poles (looked like fiber-optic cable)
theres driving rain and winds gusts about 40 kilometers per hour. And it’s cold!
The system should be weakening from here on out, but I’m waiting for the sun to come up so I can see how my yard is…
Have a great day!
Happy 27th Anniversary To Me!
Yesterday was my 27th anniversary in the Cayman Islands. There’s been a lot of changes in those 27 years. Here’s to 27 more!
it was a good weekend, I cleaned and got the apartment ready for this week’s guest.
Thw weather is nice now, but supposed to deteriorate all day with gale force winds tonight
Well see how it goes. Have a great week!
HRV 2
My watch measures my HRV, Heart Variability Rate. It’s the difference between consecutive heartbeats in microseconds.
I don’t understand it. Higher is better. Why? An out of shape individual whose heart rate doubles when he gets up to go get another doughnut will have a higher difference in his pulse than an athlete whose pulse barely increases.
Mine is in the 60’s. Looking at the above graph, that’s equivalent to a 22 or 24 year old. And 60’s is high, which is good according to all that I read.
But what about the unbalanced part? In the second picture, see the grey zone? Outside of that is unbalanced. See how it adjusted, bringing the grey up higher? No article I’ve read addresses balanced or unbalanced HRV. Search, and the link will take you to articles, but those articles don’t mention balanced or unbalanced. Including Garmin, the maker of my watch and the app that gives the data.
WTF?
Either I’m in great shape physically, or I’m going to explode any second….
Have a great weekend!
No More Slack
Daisy has been really good at her no barking training.. I decided to leave her out of her kennel while I went out last night.
I came home to a little dog party. Lenny was on the sofa, (not allowed) and Daisy was on hyperdrive, bouncing around like a madwoman in a pinball machine. Lenny just wants to be rebel badass and impress Daisy. The worst he can think of is getting on the couch.
Apparently, this newfound freedom caused Daisy forget she’s not supposed to bark in the house and her barking kept me up again.
All training forgotten in an instant.
I’m the one who has to stop thinking the dogs have learned or changed and stop cutting them slack. I’ve done it before and always tell myself not to do it again.
Oh well, they’re good dogs, They just need to be “managed”.
Cold, cloudy and windy here today. The temperature probably won’t even reach 80⁰.
Have a great day!
How To Stop Time
Like I mentioned yesterday, I finished the book: ‘How To Stop Time‘ over the weekend. I liked it a lot. It’s about a group of people who have a condition. After puberty, their bodies age about one year for every 15-20 years. In other words, they live a very long time.
The main character is Tom Hazard, he was born in 1581 and is still around today. He looks like he’s in his 50’s to us.
Generally, the people with this “condition” change their identity and move about every 8 years. People get suspicious after a while…
Tom Hazard played music at Shakespeares plays. How was on Captain Cooks ship in the Pacific. He’s teaching history in London right now.
It was an excellent book, with a dark twist to the plot. The number one rule is that you never fall in love. If you never fall I’m love, you just might be OK….
Im not saying more,. except that I thi k you should read it
Have a great day!
Another Great Weekend!
It was another fantastic weekend. I took the dogs to the beach, they loved it and were really well behaved. And then they had baths… One loved that more than the other. I won’t mention any names.
I got a lot of yardwork done. Mowing and ttranplanting houseplants and pulling weeds. I also picked up a whole huge bag of garbage from the roadside of our cul-de-sac, it looks a LOT better.
I finished an excellent book, a topic for another day.
I also had several really good yoga classes. (What’s amazing is how it makes your mind feel, even more than the body). Got all the laundry done and I also cooked out on the grill.
(I sound like a Suzy Homemaker )
It was a regular length weekend but seemed longer. Now it’s back to work, where I’m glad to be swamped.
Have a great week!
This Isn’t Modern Times
As I get older I think I become more and more against the death penalty.
Last night Alabama USA executed a murderer using nitrogen asphyxiation. Not very efficient. The record for holding the breath I think is 8 minutes. When a person starts holding their breath, the blood oxygen level begins dropping from about 20%. At about 10% you’d pass out. If your blood oxygen stayed 10%, you’d stay unconscious. Less than 10% you’d die. Four minutes with no oxygen, brain damage starts. Who knows when it stops?
I know this from breath hold diving .
This nitrogen method is effectively the same as putting a plastic bag over someone’s head or duct tape over their mouth and nose
It took Alabama 22 minutes to kill that guy last night. That’s way too long. He definitely suffered.
Why don’t they use the same method veterinarians use to put an animal to sleep? Why not hanging with a quick broken neck or firing squad? .
No, Alabama did it the way they did it because they want to punish. They want to watch someone in agony.
We’re worse than the cave man. If the cave man perceives a threat, he’ll eliminate that threat immediately, not not stash it away for decades then slowly torture it to death, SAYING it’s quick and not cruel what it’s about the slowest, cruelest method imaginable.
Happy Friday .