Yesterday the wife and I went to a friends birthday luncheon at Catch Restaurant. It was quite nice

We were going to go diving, then have lunch at a bar next to the dive shop, but the dive shop and bar were closed because of the weather.

It turned out being a nice early afternoon yesterday,

I gave Catch four stars on Trip Advisor, but my autocorrect made a mistake. I had a BEET salad and autocorrect changed it to BEST salad. My biggest gripe about Trip Advisor is you can’t edit, just delete and start over. Primitive.

Autocorrect doesn’t work when I’m using the external keyboard, kinda wish it did. This blog is fulla typos.

In the early morning yesterday, we had some heavy rain, then it got sunny again, and very windy and cold. like below 75F. Now it’s a mostly clear, cold Tuesday, and first day of the work week.

Have a great day!

Last Sunday the 21st was an eclipse where the shadow of th Earth covered the moon. A lot of people were watching, and recorded a flash caused by the impact of a meteor. Shown in the video above, and many others.

I’m not disputing it, not in any way, shape or form. But it’s an opportunity for me to tell you how I see flashes like that not infrequently.

I look at the night sky a lot. At night before bed, in the pre-dawn when I’m running/walking the dogs.. I keep track of the constellations in the sky and the phase of the moon. (Just because a long time ago, I decided I wanted to learn the constellations, not ’cause I’m some kind of looney bin astrologer)

So anyway, I look at the sky and see a flash like in the video maybe once in 10 times I’m looking, coupla times a month. I’ll be looking and it will be in my field of vision and I’ll see it, focus on where it was, but it’s already gone. Or I’ll see it out of the corner of my eye, turn to look, expecting to see an airplane strobe flashing by, and there will be none. (Not on the moon, just in the black sky.)

That’s exactly what it looks like, one white flash from an airplane strobe. Exactly how it looks in the video. It’s always my thought, airplane, when I see the flash, but then there’s not another flash, unless it is actually and airplane, and it usually is, and I watch it go flashing by.

I’m also familar with Iridum Flares, and that’s NOT what I’m talking about here.

So when I saw the “flash” on the news about the eclipse, I did think. Maybe they saw one of “my” flashes, just that the moon was behind it.

I’d like to see a before-and-after picture, similar to the one below, (Which is from Mars) from the eclipse impact. Or maybe somebody could tell me what the flashes I see are.

It’s a holiday Monday here, a big weather front moved through early this morning. It’s blow-the-chairs-over windy, rainy and cold. It was a nice, sunny weekend before that. I mowed the yard, we took both dogs to the beach, took Lenny by himself to a dog training session, also on the beach. Today is a friends birthday and we’re going to a restaurant lunch party later.

Have a great week!

I just read that Necco went out of business, so no more candy hearts this Valentines Day! Woe is me!

I just saw this on Pic-A-Day. I tried to comment on his post, but couldn’t make my cursor come up in the comment box, so he doesn’t know I stole his post.

I didn’t post yesterday, I drew a perfect blank. Today isn’t much better. It’s Friday, every day there is the promise of rain and then no rain. And I”m not complaining, except I haven’t ridden my scooter all week.

Taste Of Cayman, an annual food event, was cancelled, well, rescheduled, because of the rain we haven’t had. We’re not going, been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Although the days are getting longer, here, sunrise has been staying at 7:02 AM for almost the whole month. Sunset has been later, but sunrise stays the same till the 28th. On January 8-9th, it switched from 7:01 to 7:02, and has been 7:02 ever since. Wonder why?

Did I mention it’s Friday? Monday is a holiday here, Heros Day.

Have a great weekend!

Woke up this morning, looked at the clock at 4:30. I thought “Half hour” and rolled back over. Next thing I know, I’m in the bathroom, in my running shorts and shoes, and the thought occurs… “I don’t remember the alarm going off this morning”. I look at my watch and it’s 4:45.

I thought about going back to bed, but I had already put away my jammies and kinda made my half of the bed. (It’s hard to properly make a bed when there’s somebody still sleeping in it…)

So I just proceeded with my day, and here I am.

It’s not as cold this morning as it has been, which is nice. Lenny the pupster is going to be ok. He’s less and less scared-acting and has an infectuous happiness. This weekend he’s going to the training thing we postponed last weekend.

And all seems well. Have a happy humpday!

Above is a breakfast menu from Champion House, a very good, popular, Caribbean restaurant that has been on the island practically forever. There’s something on here for people all over the world. Except the Brits. I don’t see brown beans on the menu. Brown beans are an essential part of a British breakfast. (and quite good, I might add.)

The quiz, as mentioned in the title, is to answer what you’d order, what you’ve never heard of? What’s missing? And any thoughts in general.

My thoughts are “Fried chicken for breakfast? – I don’t like cooked akee, tastes better raw. (But it’s dangerous to est raw) – Green bananas, yum! – Ackee & codfish? No thank you. – Everything else? Yes please!”

What are you getting?

Went to East End yesterday, found out the Nauti Cat, the planets coolest looking dive boat, has been decomissioned.

Had some friends down visiting, JT and Nancy. They’ve been dating probably 30 years, and I just found out last night they sneaked off and got married finally about a year ago. Nancy became a dive instructor, I think, in the group before I became a dive instructor. She was there during my class, helping teach. JT was my student, and now runs a dive operation in Cape Hatteras.

My wife and I went and visted them at East End yesterday and had a wonderful time. We had lunch at Taco Cantina, a place I’ve wanted to visit since I heard about them. Then we hung around Ocean Frontiers Compass Point, where JT and Nancy were staying, Then had dinner at Tukka, a restaurant my wife loves. Both were good. Very good.

Got home and caught the end of the AFC playoffs, where I wanted Kansas City to win but those gawdawful Patiots won.

And now it’s a Monday, and I’m actually at work already, because I didn’t have time to finish this post at home. BUT, I get to work before 7:30, and technically, I don’t have to be here till 8:00.

It’s a cold, windy morning, the lawn funiture was blowin’ around the porch last night. But today I purposelessy left my sunglasses at home, thereby guaranteeing that the day will get sunny!

So have a great week!

It’s Sunday morning, got my coffeee and I feel like posting. I don’t have anything to post about, but I feel like posting.

I was on Facebook, looking at my USS Somers group, (my old Navy ship). There’s a guy who kept journal who’s posting journal pages as images. I wish I had kept a journal when I was in the Navy. And before. It would be like a pre-internet start to this blog.

On Friday, fellow blogger Mike, over at Billions of Versions of Normal, made a comment with the words “island punch line”. That, this morning, in addition to providing inspiration for a post title, reminded me of the old Hawaiian Punch commercials from when I was a kid.

How come they don’t advertise anymore? That was a great commercial. Simple. Makes you think of the product. Sticks in the mind. I guess it’s too violent for kids today, they’d be walking around, punching each other.

Of course, the worlds best advertising HAS to be the Frito Bandito

I guess in this politically correct world today, someone MIGHT be offended, so a commercial like this wouldn’t be acceptable

Someones always going to be offended. It offends me that the world is so sensitive about offending people these days.

This morning, the wife’s arranged for us to go to this beach dog training thing, then we’re headed to East End. I’m going to suggest delaying the doggie training till next weekend. I’ve decided that I can summarize Lenny (the new pup) in one sentence. He trusts other dogs, but does not trust people. He’s a millenial dawg, offended.

Time for cuppa coffee number two! Have a great day!

It’s finally Friday. I have some friends visiting from the USA and they’re staying at East End, all the way on the other side of the country. I live near the west coast, they’re staying on the east coast. If this was the US, it’d be the equilavent of driving from California to South Carolina. I rekkon it’ll take maybe, if there’s not much traffic, and I don’t run into any weather, assuming we have no car trouble, keeping bathroom breaks and pitstops to a minimum, I rekkon we can make it there…

oh gee.. Lemme think…. Coast to Coast.. On a Sunday… Considering all the Sunday drivers’ll be out clogging the roadways..

I’m guessing 45 minutes. Whew! road trips don’t get much longer than that around here!

On a more serious note, yesterday I forgot my tablet at home. I was lost without it. I won’t forget it today. I hope. There’s a second time for everything.

Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!

It was 6:21 AM when I sat down to post my post this morning. Lunch made, coffee perfect, and somewhat ahead of schedule.

Didn’t sleep much last night, Went to bed at 9, woek up about 12:13 AM, wide awake, got up, walked around, eyes bright, tail all bushy.Finally, around 2, I rekkon, I got out the Bose noice cancelling headphones (why are they called headphones, shouldn’t they be called headspeakers?) and put on Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here.

It was very, very good. Last night, I was thinking, “This is definitely my favorite album”. However, in the hasrh reality of the cool morning light, I realize that the best Pink Floyd album is the one you’re listening to right now. Although last night I rejected Dark Side Of The Moon because of the part with the blasted alarm clocks going off.

I was still awake when it ended, and I put my headspeakers away, but I snoozed during the album and slept OK after. It was after 3, I wanna say 3:40 when I turned ’em off and put ’em away..

And now, it’s a workday Thursday, I think I’m pretty much on top of things at work and I anticipate a good day.

Have a great day!