its the shortest day of the year today, tomorrow the days start getting longer again (in the northern hemisphere). At 4:47 PM EST today, the sun will momentarily be overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn and then will begin its way north again.
I have very much enjoyed the dark mornings this time around.
It’s the last day of my work week this week, I have Thursday and Friday off, as you know. Next week is the big holiday week and I don’t even know my schedule without looking in my calendar at work. I have very few work days left this year.
During my lunchtime, it has become difficult, if not impossible for .me to make it to my half mile swim course. Yesterday i tested out a new course, closer to work.
I swam from Eden Rock to Don Fosters and back. Four tenths of a mile. The yellow line in the above image is 400 meters. So there and back would be 800 meters. The red line is an easy to spot turn around point, but would make the swim considerably longer than 800 meters.
It is more advanced swimming than along Seven Mile Beach, with ironshore instead of sand, there’s not a lot of places to get out in an emergency. And it’s quite a bit rougher water than 7MB. My return to Eden Rock was a little more difficult than my trip away. On 7 Mile Beach you can literally pull over anywhere, get out and walk along the beach. Here, you have to find a ladder to climb up and then make it to the street through private property to get back to your starting point. There is absolutely no walking along the shore. Also the bottom is sharp coral and a miskick or not paying attention and getting too shallow could prove dangerous. But overall, it’s a good, swimmable course. And I imagine it will make the Seven Mile Beach swims seem easier.
Happy Tuesday! I guess this time of year a lot of people are taking a lot of time off. Enjoy!
I received an email from Goodreads that I found interesting. My Year In Books.
If you’re on Goodreads, find me (MarkD60) and add me to your friends list.
It was a good long weekend, I got my World Cup Wish, Argentina won! The score was 3-3, but France lost because of penalties. I think the NFL should do that and eliminate ties. If the end score is the same, the team which racked up the greatest penalty yardage, loses. The ties mess everything up..
Yesterday all I got done was cleaning a small section of my closet, and sorted through my t-shirts and shorts. It would have taken you a half hour, it took me all day.
I found a wrapped gift next to the wall, behind a box. A very nice journal. I guess it was a gift for the wife that fell out of the stack in the hiding place.
i went out and got some plastic storage containers for all the t shirts I won’t be needing for a while, if ever.
I woke up last night at the usual time, middle of the night. I felt the panic attempt to grab me but I evaded it. I can’t really describe what happened. I could feel it rising and I don’t want to say I pushed it back down but it advanced then inexplicably retreated. Normally I am unsuccessful at any attempts to control my “night madness” and I was pleased and relieved to have a hiatus. However, my assignment was to examine the panic and determine what it is that grasps me in the middle of the night every night. I know what it is in a way, fear and aloneness. But that is too vague. I must identify (and alleviate?) the roots.
This morning, thinking about it, I remembed ‘the protector’. My other assignment, which I had forgotten, was to identify and observe “the protector”. (I had asked if I was possibly schizophrenic when the protector was described to me) When things that I want to look at run away to avoid being examined, that is “my protector” protecting me. It thinks it’s protecting me from things it thinks are too painful for me to look at. This morning I tried to examine the fear and the protector hid it from me. I admit at the time that I was pleased the fear went away but this morning I realized that that was not the objective. It was not doing me any favors. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.. I’m ready to enter the haunted house.
In the meantime, I am in a great mood today, for which I am thankful, and, it’s my Friday! (Remember, Thursdays and Fridays off, rest of the year!)
I haven’t been watching this World Cup, but it’s getting pretty close to the end. I’d like to see Argentina – Morocco in the final, with Argentina pulling it off in the end.
The Artemis moon mission was completed this weekend Read an article HERE. It will be cool to still be alive when humans return to the moon. Maybe establish a permanent moon base.
it was a nice weekend. Quiet restful somewhat productive. I tidied some areas like my desk and my nightstand. I found and sprayed for even more caterpillars, out front this time. It’s just nonstop, I tell you. There were none, then they just appear.
Swapping a receational pot using basketball player for “The Merchant Of Death” international arms dealer. You already know about it but you can read the article HERE. The US probably could have gotten 100 prisoners exchanged for this one. Not that I think swapping prisoners is a good idea. Both were apparently guilty.
I find it unbelievable and shameful. The USA should be embarrassed.
A day that will live in infamy.. Two years ago, Manrique, my father in law and best friend died. In my mind, this event, somehow was the catalyst that precipitated my divorce.
I’m not going to go into how I’m still fucked up from it.
In other news, my poor poor lemon tree is under attack again, this time by beautiful green caterpillars.
I plucked almost a dozen off the plant and flushed them down the toilet. Today comes the caterpillar killing spray.
Laat Thursday i had my annual physical and got a completely clean bill of health. All the numbers look good, blood pressure, heart and lungs, all good.
In previous years, ever more numbers were going out of specs. Last year my blood pressure suddenly shot up and my kidneys were under investigation.
