Got The Slows

Woke up.

Drove to Richmond Hill.

At at Breakfast Buffet.

Ate too much, So what else is new.

Went to Walmart.

Went to Publix.

Went to a second Publix. Stupid Reason Not Worth Explaining.

Came home.

Sitting in chair.

Nap time coming.

PS There will be no bicycling today. None. Nada. Zip. This past month, I road 39 out of 40 days. Total of 644 miles. Goes past dedication into obsession mode. I am 71 years old. Time for a break

That my friends is all.

Saturday October 4th, 2025

Stay Safe.

Tis The Season... Soon

Remember Me?? I’ve been relaxing since Christmas Eve catching some rays and thinking about next season.

I'll be back soon!!!!

Stay cool out there and be nice to each other- 

Elf on the shelf 

The Jazz Age Redux

 "And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

 Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Thus ends a superb novel by F Scott Fitzgerald an early 20th century author who was both a literary genius and a totally self destructive insane train wreck of a man. His book The Great Gatsby while written in 20's America, still rings true about people today. If you get a chance at least watch the movie (several versions, my favorite is the Baz Luhrman one) and then read the book. It is powerful and it really gets to the core of who we are are as people, how we live, love and survive (or not). Check it out.

Be good to each other,

Peace out.

Dear Diary

Government Shutdown on the horizon. Many speeches. Many pressers as they call it. I've been watching this all my long years. They're going to shut it down. Too much TV time to be had. Too many pictures in the news. Politicians are all the same. Self centered morons. They do NOTHING for their constituents, They don't care. They enrich themselves to the detriment of the nation. 

It's coming. Bet the ranch on it. 

Dat's all

Friday

 In any given hurricane season, mild or not, the truth is, all it takes is one storm. Just one to ruin your life. For good too. Thus far we have enjoyed total quiet. Total lack of any tropics activity here. The I storm, it's getting started out of a warm tropical airmass way day in El Carib. Building a head of steam. And the Southeast coast is on it's potential path. 

Three months of quiet. Now I have to watch. and worry. The savage reality of these things,  we don't want it here. We would rather it not hit land and do damage anywhere. But in hurricane parlance, it is all about : ANYPLACE BUT HERE!!!  That is simply the way it is. Every year. 

And so the turtle crawl/snail pace tracking has begun. I repeat; "In any given hurricane season, mild or not, the truth is, all it takes is one storm." 

Purple lines tend toward me. 

Stay safe,dry,chill,calm
and always, keep your powder dry

That Was The Week That Was

 Many years ago, there was a TV show "That Was The Week That Was" Self explanatory me thinks. It was always funny. Or almost always funny. But that term describes this past week. Indeed.

I am afraid we are just getting started too. I hope not. But I'm not seeing a lessening of the hatred. Not at all.

Anyway, Have a great weekend. Stay safe. Stay healthy.  

No it's not.

I am craving Hot Dogs. So I've got that anyway.

Dear Diary

 Wednesday. One of those days where I feel very sorry for myself. Where I feel broke. And old. And all those other reasons that we as human beings find to feel sorry for ourselves about. Looking at pictures from years past. Fun to do. But today, it doesn't help.

A better day. A long time ago.

 The only thing I retain.

I think I still have the hat.

 In a closet somewhere.

This picture is not helping.

The current state of the country/world, Just makes it more depressing. I miss Florida. 

fin 

The Crux Of The Matter.

 
Wouldn’t it be great if I could write something that took more than 15 minutes of my attention.

I never have. I never will. Such is the true meaning of life for a man
 with the attention span of a gnat.

Of course I’ve never read anything of any consequence from any gnats. Maybe their works are out there. I can’t say I know anything of them.

Who you callin a gnat?

Fin

Wednesday

Back then, I never did this. And I pretty much never learned to keep my mouth shut! 

“Life can be tough when you’re as thick headed as I am” -Blogger Grandpa…

Fin 

Dear Diary

In keeping with my personal goal to write something everyday, and, knowing that some days are just like this, I’m just going to just add this run on, going no where sentence , hoping that the discerning reader will see how the mind of a 71 year old Grandpa works, and sometimes doesn’t work.  There I’ve done it. I’ve written  one absolutely true  sentence. Although I doubt that the late Mr. Hemingway would agree that this is what he was talking  about. But this is my Blog. 

With apologies to E Hemingway

I hit the publish button!!

Fin

Slow Saturday

Up at 6am. Bicycle ride 16 miles. 2 hours. Meeting with the power washer guy. Making arrangements for house wash. Drove to Statesboro. Ate breakfast. at Egg place. Spent hour and a half grocery shopping at Publix (entire city of Statesboro also in Publix). Drove back home. Unloading and stashing 250  dollars of grocery.
Tired at this point and this occurred to me at this moment:

I must keep Blogging....

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ok? 

Stay cool. 

Friday Is Here... And ...????

 

TGIF

Could Be Worse, Could Be Her.

 I titled this TGIF but I am retired so Friday as a day of the week is just like all the rest. 

BTW Retirement has the best working hours, but the worst pay. It is just how it works.

Enjoy your Day. Carpe Diem as they say!!!

Thought For The Day

 Blogging is hard work*** Make no mistake about that. Even mini Blogs like my Dear Diary version takes some investment in time, thought, imagination and at some point you just have to sit at the computer and ... well... create something. Even when you're not in the mood. Like today for instance.

 

Id rather take a nap!

 "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
 -Ernest Hemingway

***"Blogging is hard work" Grandpap's one true sentence. Everything else flows from this.

Journaling vs Blogging

 Journal, Blog, Diary? Are they not all the same? Just in a slightly different version?

Well, I cheated and asked AI about this:

"Journal vs Blog. The main difference is that journaling is a private, personal practice for self-reflection and processing thoughts and emotions, while blogging is a public, interactive platform designed to share content with an audience. Journal entries are for personal use, untangling ideas, and candid honesty, whereas blog posts are crafted for readers, often with a specific theme, and can be edited or updated over time"

"Think of your journal as your private workshop where you untangle thoughts, and your blog as a polished storefront where you present refined ideas to the public. While they are distinct, a journal can serve as a foundation for blog content, providing ideas and clarity for your public posts. "

Ok, so I journal in my head. Constantly thinking about things to write (Blog) about. After 71 years, I have so many memories stuffed in my head. Some good, many bad, but all of them worth recalling. And maybe sharing. 

So my goal is to write about these things that happened.  I'm trying now but so far after a couple or 3 paragraphs, I'm done. So I keep it short. I do not have a true grasp of English, sentence structure, vocabulary, I still have real trouble deciding whether I need a comma or a semi-colon. So as Dirty Harry once said : "a man's got to know his limitations" . I know mine and I play in the kiddie pool of  writing. Bottom line I ain't a writer.

 Still, I love doing this. Lately all day I'm thinking what can I write next? What would Hemingway or F Scott Fitzgerald do? They both drank to excess and they both wrote wonderful books full of wonderful ideas. Maybe I outta start drinking again. Ha Ha I know that's not the answer. But like Hemingway once said: Isn't it pretty to think so? Yeah I agree. It is.

I'm done here for now. I am ashamed that I actually asked AI for help. I swore I wouldn't.

It appears my hypocrisy
 knows no bounds

The Way We Were

  Flagler Hotel St. Augustine Florida circa 1890's

Notice on right side of picture: lock and doorknob.

Was that the key to the past?

Who knows. Who knew.

Was she thinking or imagining how people would be watching her sitting there in the Courtyard of Henry Flagler's Beautiful Gilded Age Hotel in 100 years?

Or maybe she just wanted a snickers bar... but she knew they hadn't been invented. Oh Snap!!!!

School Memories

 Recently, I wrote about my first day in the Navy. Just a short synopsis of what I remember. Interesting experience reliving it in my mind after a half century. 

So I'm going to switch gears on the memory trip.

Allow me to think back to a different period in my life.  I want to comment on my elementary school education Or, anyone's education for that matter. Social Media although it is responsible for so many bad things today does have a plus side. I am able to stay in touch with people I haven't seen since 8th grade. Where they ended up, the details of their lives. It's truly amazing thinking about those people, during those years, and what the school experience meant.

Ok so I am a product of the second half of the 20th century. Society was so different back then. And I cannot help but wonder about the true value of those school years. Do I sound crazy? Irresponsible? I don't mean to be but looking at who we all were in school as kids and who we became. There is very little correlation between someone who was  a "troublemaker" or a poor student (read stupid) and what these people became as adults.. A half century later, who you were in elementary school had very little to do with who you ended up as an adult. Not even close in many cases. So then what was it all about, what was the purpose? We spent years going through that  schooling "process", there had to be a goal there. To mold the individual into a "proper" member of society?  People I know today turned out on the whole to be much better than how I remember them back then. A's B' C' and even F's. failed to predict how a given young person would turn out as an adult. I would even go so far as to say it was mostly a waste of time. Seriously!  The entire school process was badly flawed. I interact with people today  who were "troublemakers" in school and they are Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants. I even went to HS with a guy who was a total loser. And today, He is a federal judge. He didn't pick that up in grammar or high school. 

In summary I'm not just describing a few kids here. Most of my peers and most of what we learned about life back then was wrong. And useless as far as actually navigating adult life. That sounds so negative I realize. But, I'm just calling it as I see it. As I said, Social media is a wonderful tool to stay in touch with others throughout life. And I'm going through a period of looking back and taking stock. The good,  the bad. and all the "stuff" in between.

 What say you then? 

Comments are welcome. 

Be safe.

Labor Day

Labor Day 2025 is now in the can as they say. Hope everyone had a great one. 

Summers officially over now. We in the south know better but the official words are it’s over. 

Get your last splashes in before the snow flies

Before the quest began

The beginning: 

Bob reported to enlist in the US Navy on a hot Monday morning. He traveled to an armed forces enlistment center where they do this kind of thing . Newark New Jersey July 31, 1972. Cocky, scared, acting tough like the 80 or so  other new recruits who had chosen that day to enlist. They were all so full of it. Bob had just graduated high school in  Jersey. Turned 18 3 months earlier. He pretended to know it all, while knowing nothing. They flew the new gang of Navy larva to Chicago for basic training. The day which had started early morning, found them herded through the terminal building at Ohare. It was after 11pm. Waiting busses whisked the new Navy “boots” to the Recruit Training Center at Great Lakes. The first shock of many to come , they shut the gates behind the busses. This was real now.

 It was after midnight before they stopped yelling and screaming at Bob and his fellow life travelers. And he fell asleep in a bunk that was too small , too thin and really was a terrible end to the first day. 

Bob did not realize at the time but that first day in so many ways was the first day of his young innocent life. Many days, months and years were to follow. But this was the beginning. It was a beginning like many beginnings and then it passed and it was no longer a beginning. It became  real life.

Bob … A month before the quest began 

Fin 

Dear Diary

 Bizaro world. Grandpa style.

The Doctor Will See You Now!!!

So he thinks he is a doctor?

This photo was taken at Henry Flagler's hotel in St Augustine Florida circa 1900ish? A very bored young woman of means, bored to tears. Ho hum!!! The only thing that interests me in her photo, what was that on her head? Was that supposed to be a hat? How stylish they were. Turn of the 20th century upper class bored tourists in Florida. With Janky hats. And serious attitudes. 

Labor Day 2025

  Labor Day 2025 will occur on Monday, September 1. Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally observed on the first Monday in September. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894. Labor Day weekend also symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans and is celebrated with parties, street parades and athletic events.

First Labor Day Parade 1882

 Wikipedia link with all the info on the day:

Wikipedia Labor Day

Whatever your knowledge or interest is in Labor Day, it is a long weekend. The last of the summer 2025. Enjoy!!!