I took a nap after we went to the beach yesterday and didn’t sleep too well last night. I slept ok, I guess, just not long enough.

Here’s a video I quite enjoy to watch again and again, our cat Ashy, drinking water. I took this yesterday morning, when the sun was shining right on the water bowl.

https://youtu.be/TLAqklgLAHo

Friday night, we went and saw the new movie Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Not too long ago, I commented on somebody’s blog that I had seen it and didn’t remember much about it, hence, it must have not been too good. I was mistaken, I hadn’t seen it before, and, it was quite good. We saw it in the VIP theater. Lazy Boy type seats, private concession stand, and about double the admission price. Worth it, on occasion.

My view from where we were sitting, BEFORE the movie started. The place was completely full by the time it started.

Big wide assigned seating, with tables all around! I had seat G4.

Lazy-Boy type footrest! Nice!

Also, Friday morning, on my way to work, my van hit 50 megameters.

50 megameters is the same as 50,000 kilometers… Need to get an oil change this week.

It will be a short week for me this week, Thursday I’m going to the US to see my mom. I’m taking a big empty suitcase and will bring back a big full one. My wife has been going crazy, ordering on Amazon. While she didn’t order everything including the kitchen sink, she did order a new faucet for the kitchen sink…

Aaaaaand that’ll do it for today! Have a great week!

It’s Friday, thank gawd.

On my phone I have a text list of topics for when I can’t think of a topic.

That’s where yesterdays topic came from.

Today, I decided I was going to tell you about a movie the wife and I watched the other day. This movie is one a those that is so bad and stupid that the needle goes all the way around the bad and stupid meter until it’s on the good half of the meter.

You’d hate it. All my readers are so intelligent and sophisticated, none of you would like this movie.

Here’s Justin Beiber getting machine gunned about a million rounds:

But, before he dies, he still has time for one more duckface selfie. Of course.

That movie is…

(I’m so embarassed.)

Zoolander 2

It was so dumb. You will laugh.

Lots of big stars. I’m surprised they’d stoop so low. Will Ferrell especially.

I’m not going to recommend you watch it, but watch it. It’s really really really stupidly funny.

Don’t tell anyone you heard it from me though.

Here it’s really windy and thundery here today. Spewing raindrops that are falling far away. I had my best run and swim so far since I hurt my leg this morning, about an hour ago, under completely different weather conditions..

And I’m glad it’s FRI-HIII- DAY!!!

Have a good weekend!

When I was younger, (much younger), people used to hitchhike a lot. Not so much now, because it’s considered dangerous, and people don’t know how to do it.

I used to hitch a ride a lot, in fact, I used to hitch to work every day when I worked at Sears, before I joined the Navy, and I got a ride consistently, and was never late.

Here’s a few rules for hitchhiking, I have learned from my vast experiences: I invite you to add your own hitchhiking rules, if you have any. I’m always looking to develop and improve the art of hitchhiking, although I don’t hitchhike much any more, I do sometimes. like when I drop my car at the shop. I’ll always pick up a hitchhiker, if I can.

THE RULES:

1: Don’t walk. If you’re hitchhiking, you ain’t walking, and if you’re walking, you’re not hitchhiking. If you’re walking, keep walking, you’ll get there. This is number one for a reason.

2: Pick a good spot with a place behind you that makes it easy and safe for someone to stop. If they can’t stop, you aren’t going to get a ride.

3: Look at the drivers faces as they go by. They’re more likely to stop. Try not to look like a serial killer, smile a little, but don’t grin like a psycho who just escaped from the loonie bin.

4: Pick your ride. This is kind of hard to explain, but when you see a car that you want to get a ride from, you kind of have to transmit with your mind: “PICK ME UP!” It works, it really does. Many times, using this method, I have been picked up by the very first car that goes by after I stick my thumb out.

5: Try to not look like a slob, unless of course,you want to be picked up by someone who looks like a slob.

6: You’ll have good days hitchhiking and bad days, don’t cop an attitude. Attitude is detectable by the drivers passing by.

I guess that’s about it, anything I’m missing, please let me know, by adding it below!

Have a great day!

I’m glad to know I’m not a robot, but now that I think about it, if I was still me, who cares? Do you think the above method really effective in weeding out spambots though? I think it would be easy for a robot to check the box. This is a blogspot thing. I like my spam protection, first time someone comments, I have to approve it, ater that, you’re good to go!

Had a good run/swim this morning, made the mile mark easier than expected. I should say quicker than expected, my fitness tracker buzzed a mile and surprised me, “Already?”

August first already. Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time..

Nine days till my trip to the USA to see my Mom.

And it’s Wednesday, not rainy or cloudy, so a scooter day as well!

Have a good day! (I just hit the “Publish Your Comment” button in the photo above to try and post this post..,) that didn’t work!

Everyone on Earth should experience the satisfaction of drinking coconut water from a tree that they grew from the seed.

Yup, I grew the tree that bore these coconuts from the seed. And I planted it in my yard when we moved in.

100% cat inspected and approved!

Super sweet! Good and good for you! The tree seems to bear constantly. So many nuts that I asked if the coconuts could pull the tree down. (I got laughed at or asking that) There’s still two bunches like the one above on the tree! You’re invited to come have a glass! C’mon down! (or up, if you’re in the southern hemisphere!) I took these pictures last Sunday.

Cloudy, thundery water drops blowin’ in the breeze today. Yesterdays weather report said sunny today and for the rest of the week. Liars! I DID have a good beach lunch/swim yesterday, but no run/swim this morning.

Aaannnd I rekkon that’ll doer for today, havva goodun! (I seem to have developed a southern accent.)

Saturday I went with the Wife to get a bent rim replaced on her car. We discovered that the wheel on the spare was the wrong size. So we went to a “used auto parts” place to get a new one. (two wheels total). It was quite interesting to me. A junkyard in a tropical paradise. Although it wasn’t my first time, it’s always interesting to me.

If I was a car, I’d be scared if I was diven into this place. Worried that I might never leave.

Heaven and hell, in one photo.

Somebody knows exactly what’s here, and if you need something, they can dive in and find it. Meanwhile, bananas and other lush tropical vegetation grow in the background.

There was also a very photogenic rack of windshields, I’m surprised I didn’t take a picture of them…

Need an axle? How about some brake parts?

Used tires, and vehicles.

Junk to me, gold to somebody whoo needs something here.

Gears and whatnot.

It was a good weekend. Saturday, after the car wheel sorting, we had a good lunch, and spent most of the day out and about, running errands.

Sunday, the Wife did her gardening while I lazed on the sofa, reading my book. Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiaasen. It’s a pretty good book, I’m almost done with it. All Carl’s books are good to me. Funny and incredibly bad and stupid bad guys.

This morning I had a good run AND swim. I think I’m back on track, hopefully. But oh, it was hard to get up this morning.

It’s almost August, and in August, I’m going to the USA to see my mom.

I hope you have a great week!

Here’s a picture of me, standing outside a normal sized, two storey house.

Look how tall I am! I’m like 16 feet tall! I never mentioned in this blog that I was a giant before, who already had figured it out?

It’s totally cloudy this morning. It rained yesterday and last night, but not on my umbrella. I wouldn’t mind using it, but with my luck, my umbrella will never feel a drop of rain. But since I’m a giant, it’d probably only barely keep my head dry anyway, so oh well.

And today is FRIDAY! Payday was Wednesday, so today I will discreetly duck out for a while and go pay some bills. I’ll time it so that I get back just in time to go to lunch. I think I’ll go snorkeling at lunch, rain or shine. I didn’t go yesterday, because of the rain possibility. Ya hear that? Anybody from work reading this? I didn’t take a lunch hour yesterday, so I’m doubling it up today!

Oh I’m glad it’s Friday! Have a great weekend!

I was sitting here like every day, wondering what to post, well almost like every day, except today I’m scooched over against the wall, under the eave because it’s raininh (rained). And I saw wet foorprints on the concrete. So I decided to post pics of the wet footprints.

Isn’t it exciting? I got three views because of the reflection. I wonder what primitive left them? Probably some ancient caveman, walking around barefoot, maybe three or four millinea days ago.

In other news, we turned on the air conditioner a few days ago. Now the house is freezing and has 47% humidity. I went from sleeping with a sheet to two blankets. Also, many months ago, I unplugged the water heater, giving us cool, refreshing showers. I plugged it back in with the turning on of the AC, because I need hot showers to survive the cold. Here come the big summer electric bills. Normally, if there’s a breeze, we don’t need the AC, but it’s been very still.

The rain is starting to get me wet. I might have to move inside.

We needed the rain, it has been hot and sunny or a good long while. Also, I have a new umbrella that I’ve been dying to try out. It’s square, not round, and str-r-rong, like bull. Yesterday, I predicted I’d be driving today instead of riding the scooter, so all is well.

Well, I got to move, so I’ll cut this short.

Have a great DAY!

Saw this guy the other day on the tire of a co-workers truck.

You can see me, taking the picture in the above picture!

Guess he wanted a ride somewhere and was waiting in the shade. I wasn’t worried about him getting runned over, they’re pretty flighty and he’d run away long before he could get squished.

It didn’t go so well yesterday, trying to change the URLs of my blog pages. I had a super helpful tech support the first time, not so helpful second time around. I’ll try again today. That’s why I call this blog “Third Time’s The Charm!” Tomorrow’s the third time trying. (If I DO get it switched, that link won’t work…. )

Ohhh it’s hump day. The week is going slow. And I feel crabby. I don’t like the lettuce my wife bought me for my lunch sandwiches,

In spite of my lettuce problems, try and have a good day. Please. Do it for me!

Yesterday during lunch hour, I swam out to this teeny island that’s circled below.

I turned my fitness tracker to the ‘walk’ mode for the swim.

It was pretty nice, there were a lot of birds, I picked up a few shells, and took a couple photos.

I didn’t see any eggs, last time I went out there there were lots.
I did see perfectly good flip flop though.

Then I swam back, dried off, and went back to work. I have discovered that if you dry off really well immediately when you get out of the water, it gets the salt off and you don’t feel “crusty”. Also, I keep a deodorant in my car and in my scooter.

Beachlunches are a great way to break up the day!

Today I’m planning on making the call to assist me in getting the changes made on this blog. I totally didn’t think about it at all yesterday.

Also today should be a busy day at work. I prefer boring.

Have a great day!