It was a really nice weekend. Starting with the Friday Night Sunset…

Satuday was the the first swim of the 2025 swim season. I came in 99th overall, third in my age category. I don’t know how many swimmers total were registered, but it was a very big event. Conditions were perfect. A good friend of mine came in 66th. We had fun turing our numbers upside down.

After beach yoga, I went diving on Sunday, and it was quite a nice dive with lots of sea life and good bottom time.

And now it’s back to work, I really feel like I could use a day or two more off,but I think I have training most of this week this week… or next, not sure.

Have a great week !

Happy 2025! The first swim of the year is this Saturday!

I’ll be there, hoping to see you there!!

Have a great weekend!

I have a first cousin end Thousand Oaks, part of Los Angeles. I called last night and she said that their house was not in danger right now, but they were packing things up just in case. She said it’s been really dry for the past 6 months, but before that they had a lot of rain and a lot of vegetation growth, which is all dried out now and fuel for the fire. The winds are very strong this time of year, 100 mph, and firefighters cannot use aircraft. Firefighters report the areas where they are trying to fight fires have had the water shut off. Things are looking pretty bad for Los Angeles. This morning BBC radio said that the famous Hollywood sign was in danger today.

As long as my cousin has lived in Thousand Oaks, she said she has had to evacuate twice because of threatening wildfires.

The fire has already gone through the “movie star housing zone”, Pacific Palisades.

Good luck to Los Angeles..

Not the other way around. Canada, to me, is superior in almost every way. Better land, better people who actually cooperate for the common good. Better government.

If the USA wants to take military action, I think Wisconsin should go to war and take over the upper peninsula of Michigan,

Why does Michigan get to be two states with the same name? Because of a bridge? No! The upper peninsula of what is now called “Michigan” is part of Wisconsin, not Michigan and never has been!

That’s what I say.

The United States has enough trouble with its enemies without the president elect alienating the allies.

As usual,.I woke up about 3AM. However, this morning I got up, and started reading my book. Before I knee it, it was 4:20 and my alarm goes off at 4:45! I was asleep when the alarm went off, and feel fine, but we’ll see how the day goes.

Have a great day!

I’m selling an old antique table. It was already an antique when my parents brought it home in 1967. It’s possibly 100 years old.

When my parents moved out of the house they lived in when I was in high school, they sent me a pallet of junk. This table was among the items on that pallet.

when I was taking the pictures for the ad, I discovered a crack in the table top. It had been covered by a felt protective cover for years I guess. But the crack is relatively new.

I started off asking $500 for it, yesterday I lowered the price to $400, today I’ll lower it to 300, and so on and so forth until I dump it.

I used to have a lot of love and sentiment for this table, but I have lost it all and now just want to be rid of it.

I would like to find it a good home, but no longer really care. It has dominated my dining room forever making the place of virtually unusable.

There was a good, much needed rain last night.

Wanna to buy a table?

Have a great day

Here we are, another Monday.

I slept poorly last night, and nothing seems alright this morning.

I have an appointment to get my car serviced today. Bah humbug, wonder how much that’ll send me back?

I’m moving into a better office at work. I am surprisingly unthrilled about it, I don’t care where I sit at work. There’s no status, there’s nothing there that I crave.

Bah humbug

Last night I didn’t sleep well. I dreamed my car had a trailer on the back, and I parked in a way I didn’t think I could reverse out.

Every time I woke up, I was worried about that trailer. Then I realized there was no trailer and go back to sleep, and then wake up worried about the trailer again.

I’m glad it’s friday, it doesn’t feel like Friday because of the New Year’s holiday. But I’ll be glad it is tomorrow.

Yesterday I got 34 years!

Have a great weekend!

Today is the first working day of 2025. I turn 65 this year, I will be eligible to retire. Makes it interesting to wonder what I’ll be doing next year at this time. Probably I’ll still be working.

I took Lenny to the beach yesterday, he’s getting better at it. I gave him a bath when you got home, had him on the front porch drying off, and he tried to come through the screen door. Very unlike Lenny.

I’m off to work! Have a great day!

I had a brunch this morning at 10. It was the what I was most looking forward to of these entire holiday season. I got there 15 minutes early. Wandering around the hotel, thinking I was the first one there. Turns out they moved it to 9, and I’m the only one who didn’t get the memo.

There was about 20 people there. Everyone knew it was moved up to nine except for me. I confirmed that I was coming, and I put it in my calendar, and then I showed up. But it was already mostly over.

it’s my own fault I was late.

So.I.left.

it’s already 2025 in New Zealand, it started about a half hour ago. I’m not too excited about it, I can take it or leave it. I usually make my resolutions on my birthday not on New Year’s eve.

Heres some pics from my old boss’s 60th birthday party last weekend

have a great day, and a wonderful 2025!