we had a blood moon lunar eclipse last night, I got up but it was mostly cloudy. And I went right back to bed. I could see a cookie bite taken out of the Moon but the picture didn’t come out.

today’s Friday I’m looking forward to the weekend. It seems like it’s been a very long week.

I want to reiterate how good it is sleeping without the lighted clock in the room, and how good it is having music when you swim.

have a great weekend!

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!