A selection of random pictures from my camera photo album. The view from my office window. Moonset this morning. Sagittarius teapot drawn on. Goldie the cat in the yard. (Goldie is very old, 15 plus). My visitors last week. A funny sign and Sagittarius not drawn on, original picture. It should be next to the one that I drew on, I don’t know why it’s not.

Have a great day!

Can’t make this up. A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

Isn’t that oxymoronic? Destroying rainforest so that people can get to the climate change summit more conveniently? It sounds counterproductive

There’s a mixed reaction, apparently. The highway is supposed to be very “eco-friendly”, but you know humans are just going to say that so you give them what they want.

Read the article HERE

I can’t believe humans…

A chicken walked into a library, and marched right up to the front desk and said “book book book!”

The librarian gave the chicken a book and the chicken walked out the door.

10 minutes later the chicken comes back, throws the book up on the counter and says “book book book!!”

The librarian gives a chicken and another book, and the chicken marches out the door with the book.

Curious, the librarian follows the chicken to see what he’s doing with these books.

The chicken walks down the street to the pond, and gives the book to a frog.

The frog took the book and said “readit! readit!, read it!”.

Ahaaa I love that joke! It is so funny! I slay myself! You can tell that joke to your mom or your grandma and not getting any trouble!

Have a great day

I had visitors over the weekend, I gave them my bedroom and slept on the sofa. I slept pretty good. One thing I noticed throughout the night, is that I would wake up and not know what time it is. This turned out to be a huge positive. Because in my room, I would wake up, look at the clock, and calculate how much time I had left to sleep or calculate how long I had been asleep or just worry about the time. Wondering if I was getting enough sleep.

I guess I’ve left (after a very nice visit) and I have returned to my bedroom. I turned the clock away, so I couldn’t see it while I was laying in bed.

Success! I seemed to sleep a lot better, when I’m not looking at the clock all night

Happy Monday!

I love you all!

My visitors arrived yesterday afternoon, we went to the beach and then out for dinner and it was a good night.

They probably thought it was funny, going to bed at 9!

I have some weekend visitors arriving today, I have got the house all ready, nice and clean.

Yesterday was a holiday, so today seems like a Monday number two this week. Tomorrow will be Friday at number 2 this week!

Have a great Thursday!

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally coming back to earth. They have been on the International Space Station since June, even though they initially expected to stay for just eight days.

They’re supposed to return “this month”

The ‘Gilligan’s Island’ astronauts were stranded when it was deemed unsafe for them to return on the problem riddled Boeing Starliner.

I’m not sure I would mind being stuck up there for 8 months instead of 8 days. It’s over once in a lifetime opportunity. I might be kind of upset at the time, but in hindsight I would probably think it was cool, once I was safe and sound at home.

Anyway, I’ll be interested to hear what they think gravity is like when they get back. And how it feels to take a proper shower.

it’s a holiday here today, Ash Wednesday. I’ll be cleaning the house for some guests who arrive tomorrow.

have a great day

Please.prove that you are not a robot.

Thank you .. You’ve been verified.

Lets talk about “Trial Memberships”. First week free! And to a lesser extent “the family plan”.

In a nutshell… No. Just tell me how much it costs, and if I want it I’ll buy it.

the way I look at it, the companies want you to just put your credit card number in there for a free trial, then when the free trials over they charge you whatever they want. Then you practically have to go to court to get out of the free deal.

I’m tainted by the Columbia record company back in the 1960s or early 70sI guess.

I signed up for this, all I had to do was buy a few albums at the regular price within the next 3 years. The scam was, they don’t offer any records at regular price. Everything is on sale, and nothing counts toward you fulfilling your obligation. As a young young boy, I was very upset by this. And my mother, somehow, got me out of the deal.

even products (apps too) that I’m interested in, don’t tell you the price if you want to subscribe or purchase. They want you to do the one week free trial, with no price mentioned.

I don’t play that game. Seems like nowadays, most people have their credit card plugged into the computer, and they just buy things indiscriminately. That doesn’t make any sense to me.

I would be unable to rip off the masses in this method. Even when I was running my own business, it hindered my profits because I was “too fair”.

Anyway, that’s my rant for today, I’m glad I found out that you’re not a robot, you can be glad you found that you are not a robot to!

I swam every day but one this week. It’s February in Cayman, the water has plummeted all the way down to 28⁰ C. (That’s 82⁰F, but hey! I’m climatizado!)

I’ve been thinking about olden days when I was a wee lad, taking and teaching senior life-saving classes, swimming in the Boy Scouts Lake Thunderbird, being a lifeguard, teaching swimming lessons, and swimming in the Moose Lodge pool at lunch in Virginia.

I’ve been swimming my whole life. This post is about that feeling after you jump, before you hit the water. That eeeeeee! silent scream that you can’t tell if it is terror or glee.

When you’re jumping in the water because you’re taking a class, or you’re jumping in the water because you’re teaching one, even if you’re just swimming for the fun of it, it’s the same. You kinda don’t wanna get in but you gotta and once you do, you’re glad you did!

And you jump, and for a second, you remember every time you jumped in your life previously, that unique place where you’re falling and waiting.and anticipating.

And then you hit, the water rushing all around you, the momentary chill, exhilaration and feeling like a smile and the happiness. It’s indescribably wonderful. It’s more than a human sensation I think, it’s mammalian. Its interstellar.

And it’s the same whether you wanted to swim or didn’t want to swim before the jump.

For the first second it’s cold, it’s always cold whether it’s the crisp April morning swimming pool of the Missouri lifeguard or the February Caribbean Sea in the Cayman Islands.

It’s odd, it’s an enjoyable “I don’t want to get wet, but it’s too late now!” during that drop. Maybe because after you jump, and before you hit, you can’t possibly know how cold the water’s really going to be.

It’s sort of like a reluctance to move from one world to another, but once we’re in that other world, we’re so happy to be there!

Its time travel . maybe , we jump, and while we’re falling, it’s always the same .moment in our lives, no year, no age, just the same cosmic moment. Then splash! We return to our normal timeline.

Does anybody know that feeling except for me? There’s a unique sensation that goes along with the days first plunge!

Do you know what I mean?

Happy Friday, Have a great day!