Shots from the Lip

 I cannot believe I shoveled down that which I did, yesterday, through more eating establishments than I have ever been in in one brief afternoon.......but I did, ending up with over-indulging in Danish sugar cookies to soften the stiffness of tequila, after not drinking for so very, very long..... With that out of the way, it is time to start going through all the food piling up in our freezer, purchased at various and sundry places when we saw bargains.....only we are buying faster than eating and the pile up seems to be a never ending problem..... I chose a yellow, sweet, football shaped melon this morning from Trader Joe's....and I think I'm going to have the pastrami dip I purchased from The Hat yesterday afternoon in Temple City......

 How truly misleading:  weather status on my phone shows it is raining now and will be raining all day long.  Don't assume that this is the only thing you should know in determining how you should face a day of rain as entire precipitation for the day, both before now and going throughout the entire day, should amouunt to less than 10cc's of rain that will be over by 11am. OK - I won't go out this morning....but this afternoon?? Oh boy, what a mistake to have truly relied upon the forecast going into the morning.....it was raining as we drove to LAX to exchange rental cars from one overpriced to one at half that price, far more tolerable.....and a rainy drive, the long way because Google Maps chose based upon an inaccurate thing  (which was also quite rainy) and into Monterey Park for the Duck House where we chose not to have duck but were quite happy with food and ambiance on a rainy afternoon in a Guangzhou family restaurant....it was indeed a wild, wacky, wet afte...

 Mao allegedly said that.  That's also the title of a graphic novel by a Chinese-Australian artist and a Chinese Taiwan-HK-American writer that was published by  a Brooklyn NY publishing house and was reviewed somewhere that attracted my attention.  I purchased it and am reading it now - a rarity - a real book!  Add that to three more on my Kobo reader and three more on my new Kindle.  Former is a day book.  Latter, with boldness adjustment, is great at night! Will I write more later today?  Good question!  Who knows???? I guess we'll all have to find out.....later.....

 Spectrum tried all it could do to retain me.  They screwed up from the word go.....and yet, better to have worked down to a $25 per line per month charge from a system that seems to be working with less annoyance to its customers than the other companies in competition for internet consumers..... I was there today.  Most annoying by Spectrum:  that first call from them at 7:30am on Saturday morning....and annoying additional (two) calls that were as insensitive as these could possibly get..... Regardless, things are taken care of for a year and the only other thing left is to put a reminder in my calendar for 2 September 2027 to log out of automatic renewal...... Fall weather appears to be here - it is phenomenal walking weather outside, right now!

It is 9:25am and the temperature on my watch already is at 28C.  It is going to be another hot day and while I will start doing the stuff I've been happy to procrastinate doing for longer than I should have been procrastinating......shit - got to get back to reality..... There are 4 or 5 (maximum) who actually look at my blog....I now know of two of them....have absolutely no idea who the others are, nor, frankly, do I really care....I force myself to generate a bit a day in hope of one day soon generating another essay - and those taking a look at the blog, know more of my thoughts.... Tomorrow at 10am, Spectrum comes here....if they can get me Dodger and Laker games on my computer and this Fire, then I'll stay with Spectrum.  Otherwise, something else

 I purchased my power-assisted e-bike at half off during the first week of October, 2023.  This was one of those truly great purchases I've made in my life - I love that bike!  During the first year I rode virtually every day.  Subsequently, I've been riding either two or three mornings a week - Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.  Early.....before the idiots of the road wake up to Mad Max drive with reckless abandon and scare the shit out of any sane cyclist.  Going on the beach path is wondrous:  with the ocean on my right and beach sand both right and left, one realizes how truly insignificant one is in the overall scheme of things..... And then, Sunday morning, shortly after 8am, someone, out of vision range, lunged at my bike as I rode along Ocean Avenue to the paths.  He pulled at the bike with one hand, punched with the other.......I was down....there were witnesses........police and fire department were there within 5 minutes. Two days in Room...