Hard to believe, but Pink Floyds “Dark Side of the Moon” was 50 years old this past March. I first got drunk in 1973, and started drugs very shortly thereafter. It seems I heard and loved Wish You Were Here before Dark Side of the Moon, I bought the LP Record (and still have it in 100% perfect condition. I don’t think I ever bought Dark Side Of the Moon, but I listen to it at least weekly.
Both are some of the greatest albums ever.
50 years, dayum!
Have a great weekend!
Heres the pre-sunrise from this mornings dawg walk. Seems like I can tell the days are getting shorter already.
Have a wonderful day!
I would love to sail solo around the world in my own sailboat. However, I do not want to sign up for sailing lessons and putter around on a Hobie cat, learning how to sail. I don’t want to go out on dates, looking for a girlfriend like some high school kid. I want to already be established in a year’s long, happy, marriage.
This flawed logic of wanting something,, and imagining having it, without doing the work is defective thinking.
those guys on the Titan sub that imploded on its way to the Titanic, were engaged in this same flawed thinking. They could have dived shallower wrecks, they wanted to do one dive and that was the ultimate dive for the most advanced Submariner to ever make. They wanted to start at the finish. It cost them their lives. Same as if I just bought a sailboat and tried to sail around the world without sailing lessons, it would possibly cost me my life. (If I could even get it out of port!)
how much time do I waste, wishing for things I am not willing to work for? There are probably several examples in my life that I’m not even aware of.
Food for thought.
Happy 4th of July!
Heres some pics from diving yesterday.
turtles mating, spotted eagle ray, queen angel, some kind of feather duster, christmas tree worms and the boat!
Today is a regular workday,so off I go!
I took this picture this morning just before sunrise. The sun was shining on the plane, but not on me yet. At first glance light was reflecting off the plane itself making a separate dot from the vapor trail, but by the time I whipped out the camera the reflection was gone. You can still see the plane pretty well in the picture.
I started reading Homer’s Odyssey, I don’t think I can do it. It’s written like bullet points, with one not relating to the other, along list of facts, it seems. I guess that’s what prose means.
Fitzgerald’s translation is probably the third translation I’ve tried. It is allegedly the most popular. I need to find a version that is written more like a story like a regular book. The way this book is written, reminds me of Dante’s inferno, a very tough read. I did find a storybook version of that, however.
Happy Friday! Tomorrow is July..
I have a tenant moving into the apartment today for 90 days. Gonna turn on the AC and put out some towels before I leave for qork I mean work.
Have a great weekend And a long one!
Here’s a few photos of the sunrise this morning. Two from the beach and one from the roof.
Im shocked sad this morning. A friend I haven’t seen in years committed suicide yesterday. The worst are the ones who never say anything, they just do it. The worst thing is that, I’ve read from survivors, those whose attempts were unsuccessful,, is that you always change your mind after it’s too late. That’s always the last thought. So I’ve read.
And the families and friends do not deserve it.
Below is this mornings sunrise, because the pic makes the post!
I slept good again last night, 2wo in a row. Can it be as simple as not laying on my back? Will it last? Below is the sleep tracking from my watch, I barely woke up at all, usually I’m up a dozen times or two.
I’m excited, going to work today,. (That’s quite possibly the most insane sentence ever typed on this blog) I don’t know why that’s exciting. Hopefully I can swim at lunch, got a lady cleaning the apartment and she’s doing a really good job She started yesterday and will finish today.
Things are looking good! Have a great day!
From now on, I’m sleeping on my side and not my back. Night before last I didn’t sleep well. Breathing had the sensation of when you pull the rubber stopper out of the drain of the full bathtub. The hesitation, the delay, the extra effort. Last night, I slept on my side, and slept much much better.
Even though I was sleeping, I felt like I was performing experiments as to breathing resistance laying on my back versus on my side, and the results were breathing is much easier on the side. I don’t know why. But from now on I’m sleeping on my side all I can.
Do you sleep on your back, or on your side primarily? Or do you even bother to notice? If you don’t know the answer, you’re probably a very good sleeper.
have a wonderful day!
it was a short seeming weekend. Friday I played pickleball and didn’t want to quit when the time was up.
I rented out the apartment for 90 days, starting at the end of this month, gettind it ready, interior and exterior. I cleaned the breezeway:
After and before
I went diving yesterday, it was good, Not too much stuff tho and a pretty strong current.
And today is back to work Next weekend is another long weekend!
Have a great week!
I guess you all have heard it already, the sub, named Titan, that was lost on a trip to the Titanic.
Below is a picture of the lost crew/passengers.
It’s a tragedy, the deaths, but they knew there was one helluva rlrisk.
I think I called it accurately from the beginning, the sub descended, it takes two hours to reach depth. 1 hour, 45 minutes into the dive, almost there, contact was lost. I said to my co.worker, “it got almost to the bottom and imploded like a light bulb breaking. Instant, nearly painless death for all. ( I’m pretty sure light bulbs have a vacuum inside to prevent the filament from burning rapidly, that’s why they pop like they do when they break) Well, at that depth, inside the sub was probably comparatively closer to a vacuum than the inside of a light bulb.
I questioned my theory when the news said there was “banging” heard.
Also there is very little, if any, equipment that could recover an object as big as the Titan sub at that depth.
From the beginning, if anything went wrong they were pretty screwed, and I’m sure they knew it.
But what a way to go… Beats dying in a hospital bed.
Happy Friday Yee haw!