Finished this book Sunday evening, Beach Read

Two authors, both have writers block. She writes romances and his writing is more gruesome. They make a bet. They’re going to write novels in each others genres.

Her name is January, his is Gus. They start a relationship, but it’s complex. He’s married, January is crazy about Gus but Gus is hot and cold towards January.

January has inherited the house from her late father. He shared this house with a local woman that he was having a long term affair with. Gus just happens to live next door.

January is resentful toward her dead father for fooling around on her mother.
Later, she realizes parallels between her father and his mistrress and herself and married Gus.

In the end, everyone is forgiven, and everyone lives happily ever after.

After a good start, the romance starts and the plot dies down. The plot concludes almost as an afterthought. (The bet)

I gave it 3 stars on Goodreads. I don’t think I’ll read any more romances. I never thought the second half would end..

AND! Happy anniversary to me! February 4th, 1997, I arrived in the Cayman Islands! 28 years ago today!

Have a Great Day!

Some pictures from yesterday’s scuba dive. An octopus in the hole, a ribbon nudibranch, two butterfish (I think they’re butterfish), and in the lower right, I don’t know what it is! It was about an inch long, moving relatively quickly across the sand.

And a few more: Venus and the moon a couple days ago, our neighbors porch view, and my dessert after Friday night sushi

Now it’s back to work, the second month of the year already, 2025 is 8% completed.

Have a great week!

The aircraft was making a normal landing. The helicopter flew into the plane. The helicopter was on an exercise wearing night vision goggles. At 200 ft with night vision goggles in that location every headlight, street light, every light period would have been a blazing, blinding starburst. There’s entirely too much light in that environment to be wearing night vision goggles. I think the pilot of the helicopter couldn’t see where he was going. And ran into the plane.

It upsets me they seem to be trying to blame air traffic control. I feel like it is human error wholly on the part of the helicopter pilot.

it is a terrible tragedy. When I fly, I always ask for the window seat. I’m always looking out the window during takeoffs and landings and most of the flight. I’m sure at least some of the passengers saw the helicopter as it hit the plane.

Horrific . Condolences to the families and all those involved.

nobody wanted my 100-year-old antique oak table. Somebody was supposed to come get it yesterday, but they didn’t show up. I had already carried it downstairs, so I left it out by the street.

it doesn’t feel good, the table’s been in the family since 1967. I hope the guy who wanted it stops by and picks it up today, or any case it finds a good home. I’m thankful to have the space in my house. The room is twice as big now without that table..

It’s new moon, Chinese new year, lunar New Year. Many people have been saying how they have been crabby or depressed lately. And they blame it on the moon. I guess I’m one of them. It occurred to me that I’ve been in the dumps since 2025 began. It started by getting hit by the door, then hurting my back, now not feeling good about the table,..

Oh well, it’s almost February!

I was having a conversation with somebody last night, I was reminded of when I was a small child. I felt like I was the only one of the people that I knew who still didn’t know how to ride a two-wheeled bicycle. I remember being afraid if by the time I learned to ride on two wheels, everybody else would have advanced to unicycles!

It’s funny how things like this can be forgotten in the brain for years and years and then suddenly remembered.

Happy Wednesday!

i hurt my back last week mildly at first then more severely Friday. I didn’t leave the house all weekend, except yesterday I went swimming to try and fix my back. It was painful swimming but overall felt good.

I’m not looking forward to going to work today. I may end up going to the doctor.

After a few days of what I think has been unseasonably warm weather, we finally got the cold front that has been affecting the United States. It’s not snowing or anything, of course but after a period of calm, it is now suddenly very very windy and cool. The image below explains It all. Doesn’t it?

I’m glad it’s Friday, I hurt my back exercising yesterday, and I hurt my arm and shoulder sleeping night before last, I’m a real wreck!

Have a great weekend!

It seems like kids today are forgetting how to write.

Read the article HERE.

People are on keyboards all the time, there’s voice to text and text to voice. No need to read, no need to write. For a long time, I’ve seen an increase of examples where people don’t know the difference between “To, Too and Two” and “Their, They’re and There” and the like.

I remember years ago reading article about igloos in Alaska, and the writer couldn’t find an Eskimo who still knew how to make an igloo.

Is it a cycle? We make life better, it gets easier for the offspring. Who lose their coping skills and cannot maintain the level of easiness that was provided for them. And the whole place goes to crap again and the cycle starts over.

I remember third grade, 8 years old, we started learning how to write cursive. I don’t think people have been taught cursive in schools for a long time. I remember a sample test from kids in the late 1800s schools. Incredibly difficult mathematics and English and writing, by the standards that I grew up with. And it’s been slacking off more and more.

Native American saying, “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

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It’s almost the weekend, have a great day!

Ive had the switch above in the house for years. It’s pretty good because it turns the lights off and on automatically. There must be a little battery inside it lets it keep its programming if the power ever goes off, but I think that battery might be dead. When the house loses power, the switch loses its programming. It is very difficult for me to program because the instructions are written in such a teeny tiny microscopic font I can’t read them. Also, the level of the light switch is exactly wrong for standing in front of it and trying to run to these programmable settings. I have to get a stool and sit on the stool to be at the right height. So, right now I believe I have it programmed properly however there must be a setting to activate or deactivate the program because although it’s programmed, it’s not going on and off automatically. I look at the instructions and just can’t see s*** when I look at them. I have to take a picture of the instructions on my phone and zoom in on the picture to read that. It is a pain in the butt.

That’s my rant for the day, have a good one!

PS:, it’s not as dirty and ugly as it looks in the picture, that’s the shadow from my phone taking the picture.

My Washington Commies are doing pretty good huh? Stomped ol’ Detroit in Detroit. Not an easy feat. Can they beat Philly again?