It doesn’t.
Raining cats and dogs yesterday, so there was no Friday group hike. I have an infection in my left eye (the one where I had the recent cataract surgery), so my helper scheduled me for a 3:30 p.m. appointment with the ophthalmologist at Baypointe Hospital on SBMA. The water at home stopped working (again) because of a pump outage in San Isidro (and it is STILL out). Given the heavy and unrelenting rain, I called my driver for a ride to Baypointe. I transferred $800. to Swan’s bank so she could use her card to withdraw cash for me. We stopped at the ATM on the way to the hospital, and on a whim, I tried my card after having wiped the chip and strip. It worked! Whether it will next time remains to be seen. I had to wait an hour to get in to see the eye doc (welcome to the Philippines). He confirmed it was an infection, but not a deep one (whatever that means), and prescribed some antibiotic eye drops. It does feel somewhat better today.
The eye appointment took longer than planned, so we skipped the SOB, which I was ambivalent about attending anyway. Instead, I had my driver drop us off at It Doesn’t Matter. And that’s where we stayed for the rest of the evening. It wasn’t busy on the outside patio, where we prefer to sit, but a female Hasher, Grace (also known as Dripping Pussy), was at a table, and we joined her there. As the evening progressed, several other gals known to Swan and Grace dropped by as well. So, there I was seated at a table of Filipinas yakking away in Tagalog all by my lonesome. Well, I did have my San Mig Zeros to keep me company. I ordered food from the kitchen and some lady drinks. When it was time to bill out, my tab was almost 3000 pesos, about triple what I usually spend during a night on the town. Swan seemed to enjoy herself (she admitted to being a little tipsy), so I reckon it was worth it.
And now it’s a rainy Saturday, and we’ve had to cancel the candy stroll. The power went out for a couple of hours, but has been restored now.
So, what else have I got? Well, this video Instapundit posted was pretty hilarious:
The truth will set you free!
A couple of days ago, I found this meme on Kevin Kim’s blog:
I wasn’t disappointed. Here’s the comment he left for me:
Free speech : jail time, are you retarded? Your the ones locking up people. Stop already with the fake outrage, you support pedophiles, everyone everywhere now seems what you lot are about. Have some decency and stfu!
Sadly, when I knew him in Korea, he was a normal guy, and we got along quite well. I guess living back in the UK has ruined him.
I like this one, too:
The “March” through 2010 in the LTG archives continues with this post that captures so much of what I loved and miss about my life in Seoul. A spring snow and a river walk. What else can you ask for? (Okay, the young Korean women didn’t love me so much, but still…)
I kind of randomly came across today’s YouTube video about getting suckered by AI and found it worth the watch. Perhaps you will as well (it’s less than four minutes long).
To the funny business, then:
And now it is time to move on with my Saturday. Hopefully, I’ll be able to shower soon (that pouring cold water from a bucket over my head just doesn’t work for me). Then we’ll see what the rain does.
I’ll be back!
Linda Ronstadt turned 79 this week, not that it matters.
John, ya bloody wally….buy a portable generator. I bet you can get a used one there for a couple of hundred aussie bucks.
Last thing you need are the colliwobbles and a sweaty fanny ’cause ur AC keeps dropping out.
I can hook you up with “Poohole Steve” over in Angeles if you want a fair price instead of getting ripped off like some bakla!
Ronskis.
Dr Greg Williamson
John is an adult and quite capable of making his own decisions as to whether or not he wants to waste precious money on a generator without you chiming in. Have a care and please do grow up.
No worries, Gary. People can say what they want in the comments and I don’t take offense. Feedback is a gift, you don’t have to like the present.
Greg, I thought of getting a generator, and maybe someday I still will. An hour or two without power I can handle, an all day outage is too much. Of course, it gives me an excuse to get outta town for awhile. The water problem won’t be fixed by a generator anyway.
It’s been rainy here as well. My sympathies.
I don’t know who this Gary poofta is, but John just start with your fixable problems first. You’d need a million lifetimes to sort all of the infrastructure issues in the flippers – the place is a bloody bssket case. Lights and AC first….You can move onto the unflushed turds in your dunny later. A lot of houses in places like Thailand and Cambodia will have a small tank (perhaps 1~3,000 liters) on the roof, so even if the water pipes crap out, or the government twats turn everything off, you still have enough running water for 3 or 4 days Also cheap to install…..Poohole Steve can take care of that too.
Seriously with the amount of money you spend on those fatties in bars every month, you wouldn’t even notice this one off expense, and it would add a definite certainty to your quality of life.
Just throwing my two pesos out there, big fella.
And Gary, you bloody mango head….how about you suck a fart out of my arsehole?
Greg speaks wisdom, John. (About the tank stuff. As for his gentleman’s quarrel with Gary, who knows?) If your place’s roof is up to code for such a structure, a tank (with a filtration system!) sounds like a great idea, especially if you’re in that building for the long haul. Does the PI have any California-like laws against collecting and storing your own water? Consult the AI god and find out. Either that, or stock up on tons of bottled water. And buy a LifeStraw just to be safe. Or do what they did in Old Europe and just drink beer—oh, wait. You already do that.
Kev, no laws against water storage tanks, in fact, I’d wager that more houses have them than don’t here. I don’t drink the tap water here, so I have a good supply of bottled water. If these water shutdowns become a regular fact of life, I’ll look into the water tank.
At least I don’t have to worry about dehydration as long as there is beer in the fridge!
Greg, indeed, most of the houses in my neighborhood have elevated tanks that keep the water flowing. If these outages continue, I’ll definitely consider joining the crowd and installing one. As with the generator, it is not about the money, just the pain in the ass factor.
Gary, I don’t tend to censor comments, preferring a free and open discussion. But personal attacks do not add value and I’ll exercise my discretion when I believe they’ve crossed the line.