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my Saturday

Nothing really to blog about. I figured I would try about the reptilians but nobody thought that was dinner conversation. I was going to write a series II about men and their nipples, but figured that would be equally not appealing at the dinner t

That Beeb again.....

radio stories so interesting, I'm missing out on sleep. So, this debate over endless growth (Economic, population), in the face of limited space and resources. As usual, it's much more nuanced than either side admits. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis...

Let me introduce you

As I mentioned in my previous blog I had a dream. Well we found a sailboat in the Azores. Let me show you my boat. Cockpit and entrance Galley https://photos.co

Dealing with frustration

Words do not adequately describe how annoying and frustrating it can be to even work with screws or bolts this tiny (shown on a quarter), much less drill and tap accurately placed bolt holes for them in tough hardened steels. https://photos.c

That's for sure!!! I

................ That's for sure!!! I

Funny Turn

The man at the check out next to mine at the supermarket last Saturday had a funny turn recently; I know that because I heard his wife telling someone. I was glad she wasn’t my wife; I wouldn’t like my funny turns to become public knowledge. For a

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I’m not perfect

......................... I’m not perfect I trust animals more than people ':c

Fending for Myself

At first, I was daunted at the thought of living on my own. For the previous sixty years of my life I had no need of the rocket science necessary to operate a washing machine, nor the skilful dexterity necessary to neatly fold a fitted bed sheet.

Things I can't explain

It's a great feeling on Friday night, knowing I don't have to get up on Saturday at the same time as I do in the week; yet I always do get up at the same time.

Went way over your head.

.................. Went way over your head.

Resurection of a Peace Maker

Texas -2017 The old man in Texas I talked to on the phone told me it was his grandfather's. Allegedly his grandfather, a town constable back then, had picked it up at the scene of a shooting back around the turn of the century. Back in those days

So many times yes!!

.......................... So many times yes!!

Curious as to Your response

The video speaks for itself with a educator that 'seems' to snapped. Put yourself in a position of authority for a moment and take into consideration that this is one of Cape Town's top school for girls.. What would you have done? ht

dont be their entertainment.

..................... dont be their entertainment.

All the things NOT in your profile

You are not your age, nor the size of clothes you wear, You are not a weight, or the color of your hair. You are not your name, or the dimples in your cheeks. You are all the books you read, and all the words you speak. You are your croaky mornin

Dumpster Diving...

Inspired by Red's blog, I'm a few blocks from a music store. When they changed ownership lots of things ended up in their dumpster. Musical instrument cases of all sizes. Some were new in their original cartons or sealed in plastic. Boxes of 'off bra

Anyone having good weather?

My daughter is walking her dog in 6 inches of snow. My friend there in Natal is resisting being washed out of her house by torrential rain. I know there's ice and snow and hail and awful stuff everywhere. Even sunny Spain is currently raining on the

Situations vacant

I am subscribed to a website called “indeed”, it’s a jobs website; I’m always on the lookout for employment closer to where I live. I get daily emails from them listing jobs that fit my criteria. In among today's vacancies was this specification:

Here today, gone....

One of the drivers didn’t show up for work the other morning, it turned out his wife had died the day before; they say he found her when he got home from work. He was always having to take days of work to take her to the hospital or look after her o

Freezing human eggs.....Dating site successes.....

....stories on the Beeb always get me thinking. Apparently, now that fertilized human embryos have had the same cold treatment for a few decades, it starts with unfertilized eggs. Surgically (read---invasively) harvested after a few toxic weeks of dr

live your life for yourself

................... live your life for yourself

Under Achiever

At school my teachers thought I would never amount to anything. I haven’t seen any of them since I left so they probably don’t know how accurate their predictions were. None of my achievements in life have been more than minor. This has, from time

Here in SA it is still the end of Summer where most of the people on CS are in Winter

What do you prefer: Summer/Spring/Winter/Autumn/None? and tell us why?

Too good not to share

Too good not to share?? Every second someone leaves this world. Age has nothing to do with it. We are all in this line without realizing it. We never know how many people stand in line for us. We can not step out of the queue and then close ba

No comment.

............... No comment.

Something is burning...

It's been a mixed bag of weather these past few weeks. Lows in the 40's (Fahrenheit) highs in the 70's and yesterday kicked up winds of 25mph gusting to 40 at times. I have a fan in the window of my home office that's 20 years old and sometimes It s

Maybe yes. Maybe no.

......................... Maybe yes. Maybe no.

Destiny

Doesn't life happens as we make it? Or do we just accept what cards are dealt with us and then make do of what we can do? (or not do for that matter). What about destiny. Do you believe in it? If so how much of it do you truly depend on it an

Amazing, right?

There is someone who is with you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He or she never departs from your side, day and night remains with you. There is only one person who can make you happy, who can really make you feel good. Who? You are, of course, y

Truck Stop...

There's a story in the news about a guy and his guests who decided to build a huge snowman and packed it around a tree stump in the front yard. When the guy returned home, there were tire tracks leading to the snowman and stopped... right where the

Mind AWOL

We all, I think, I hope, have that moment of walking into a room, then wondering what we went there for. Or stopping halfway up the stairs and thinking ???? When I was preggers I took that a lot further, I was definitely scatty - once I found my

exploitation

Are you being exploited if somebody makes a profit from you....from your labor....from your possessions. In the world of Capitalism, is not that what it is all about?

I am a lot on the internet with my work

I am a lot on the internet with my work and between my work I surf the internet I work with 4 laptops 3 for work 1 for fun when my boss does not come see I use him I work with 2 other employees but 1 was caught while he watched sex movies he is marri

South Park's Man/bear/pig

It's uncharacteristic, but it seems that Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, have reversed their stance on a particular topic. A man/bear/pig was used to represent the absurd probability of human influence on climate change.

Want... or need...

In the next month or so, I'll be unloading things I no longer use or need. Many of those things on my list are technology oriented where support is no longer available. Probably 5 or 6 computers running Windows XP. Maybe I can convert one to run on

We all have to survive/tools.

Okay. We all have to survive in this world. It would be a little better if you can thrive so as we can create comfort for ourselves down the road. In this ever changing technological world, I cannot help to think about what tools would be essenti

Hi, Big Brother, didja see what I just did ...

My bank in Spain will shortly have the technology to produce the details of a payment – not just that I bought at a supermarket, but the copy of the sales slip. Woah! Maybe not that efficiently, since they had the wrong retailer listed against th

Trainmen

I remember standing by the train tracks as a little girl, counting the box cars as they chugged by, waiting to cross to the park and beach on the other side. All 7 of us (5 kids and two adults) would pick a spot where we'd count the cars so we wouldn

Downright Balmy Today

It is 2 degrees C here. That is really warm for this time of year. Its snowing but not heavy, tomorrow there is actually some rain in the forecast which will probably turn everything into a sheet of ice when the temp goes down again after the rain. W

Blizzard Warning

I just seen the forecast for my area and we are going to get a dump of snow. For anyone unsure, a blizzard means heavy snow and high winds thats sustained for a certain amount of time. May lose the power so I'm getting my interneting done now lol.