My Insight Timer streak, artists rendition of the Milky way, based on available scientific data, yesterday’s sunrise, a single line drawing I found on the internet that I thought was cool, I think it’s Friday’s crossword puzzle, and some exposed rebar on my roof.

Happy Monday!

I woke up last night and I told myself “When the alarm goes off, I’m going to stay in bed.” I fell back asleep, and when the alarm came on, I woke up and turned it off when the light came on, but before the sound started. I got out of bed.

I said to myself , “I’m not doing any stretches today. I’m going to have an idle day with zero exercise” as I carried my mat to the front porch. I had a better than average workout.

I said “I’m not going to walk or swim today”, as I carried my walking shoes and swim trunks to the bathroom where I put them on every morning. (I still leave the lights out and tiptoe around quietly like my wife is sleeping in the bed with me, even though she’s been gone 5 years). Then I walked, and swam and ran (jogged) like usual.

I wonder what else I’m not going to do today?

What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I ever do what I say I’m going to do?

Hapoy Friday

Although it seems to me that mu vision is improving in my right eye, it is too little too slow.. Looks to me like my macular canyon is getting worse. The plan is to the left eye in 2027, and then consider redoing the operation in the right eye. Sux.

Yesterday all the debris were removed and the roof was sanded down to bare concrete. Next is fixing a couple of spots on the concrete and cleaning.

it’s going very well!

Have a great day!

ISS meets Venus in incredible daylight photo!

Photographer AJ Smadi set up the scene on July 18 in a park near Seattle, Washington. Smadi used a 9.25″ (23.5 cm) Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope and a ZWO ASI662MC camera equipped with an ultraviolet and infrared filter to capture the incredible image.

I made this GIF image out of a screen grab video.

Read the article HERE

I think this is really cool.

Sundeck roof work is progressed nicely yesterday. Today they’re grinding down to bare concrete

today I have an ophthalmologist appointment then an appointment with a lawyer to get a clear explanation of the pensions law because the pensions office isn’t giving me one. And then I have to go pay for my new health insurance, my work health insurance expires at the end of this month.

Have a great day!

Today is the day workers start to replace.my roof..I hope it can be done quickly and without problems.

Amen

For the last half decade, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time on meditation, mindfulness and awareness.

Ive become aware of the monkey mind, the seemingly random thoughts the brain generates.

I notice that sometimes five or ten minutes into a yoga class, I will realize that I haven’t heard what the teacher is saying. My body is obeying the cues, but my head isn’t there. Me, the real me, is operating on auto pilot in the background while the monkey mind chatters in the forefront of my head.

I’ve heard it likened to watching a movie in a movie theater,. Sometimes the movie is so good that you forget you’re in the theater and think you are in the movie. Sometimes you’re aware you’re in the theater watching a movie, you can feel the seat, smell the popcorn and be aware of what’s not in the movie.

When I become aware of it, the interesting thing is that I wasn’t aware of it before. I told my teacher about this, she said she knew, she could see it in my eyes. I also thought that was very interesting.

sometimes when I’m meditate I have a”good” session, where the monkey mind seems relatively quiet. Other sessions I call “bad” because the monkey mind just won’t shut up.

0f course, all the meditation sessions are good. Or perhaps they’re neither good nor bad, they just “are”

I am not my thoughts, I am not my planning for tomorrow, or my memories of yesterday, I’m the one here now breathing. I am the one observing the monkey mind. The monkey mind is the thoughts, I am The observer.

Is this true or false?

have a great day!

Today is my 1800th day in a row of Duolingo. That’s 4.93 years.. You would think that by now I could speak a little spanish, but I don’t feel like I can very well. Not functionally. Maybe someday I’ll be immersed in it and learn to speak fpassably.

I do my Duolingo lesson everyday, but never speak Spanish with anyone.

happy friday! Today I’m taking my car in to get serviced. I’ll be trapped at home.. Alas! Woe is me!

I’m looking forward to having an excuse to not stay active in my retirement.

Have a good weekend !!!!!!

My good eye is my bad eye and my bad eye is my good eye.

I had all the surgeries on my right eye, cateract, and removed the epiretinal membrane and had the macular hole repaired. There’s nothing more to do on my right eye. I also had laser surgery to clean up my new lens after the other surgeries”dirtied” it. I believe my vision continues to improve, with a 12-month healing period. But, as of now, I still can’t read out of that eye. The text looks chopped up, I think it’s the glaucoma.

My left eye, the one I can read out of, still needs all the surgeries. I don’t have a macular hole, and I don’t have glaucoma,, but I do have a epiretinal membrane to be removed, which is basically the same procedure.. Not to mention still needing cateract surgery

I certainly hope I can read for the rest of my life, reading is something I do constantly, and I don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t read.

I can read out of my “still bad” eye, and so far, my “fixed” good eye isn’t so good…

Anyway,, worrying about it produces nothing and is a waste of energy..

Have a great day!

12000 CI dollars for a new membrane roof. Versus 1800 to just replace the loose tiles. I’m happy to pay it. Tiling was a huge mistake.

Happy Hump Day

Canada is having major wildfire problems. The US president, D. Trump, seems to somehow blame the Canadian Prime Minister and threatens to increase tarrifs because Canadian Wildfire smoke is entering the US..

ASSHOLE! Why don’t you send some firefighters up there to help them out?

Oh, and don’t forget, most US lumber comes from Canada.

Whats the saying about people who live in glass houses?

So, at the same time, US fires are apparently getting smoke into Canada, so Canada has issues air quality warnings.

read it HERE..

Man,, I’m ex Navy, and I don’t have to like my captain to follow orders. The people voted the guy in and I try to keep my mouth shut, but if this was the Navy and I was the captain, as unthinkable as it is, I might be starting to worry about mutiny along about now. Officers don’t have to follow unlawful orders.. Whether in order is lawful or unlawful is very often a matter of interpretation. The US President must be losing his supporters at this point

Humans never grow up, this is the same crap as kindergarten playground BS.

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