Or is Sunday the first day? Not that it matters; when you are retired and a slave to your routines, every day is pretty much like all the others. Here’s a brief recitation of how I spent my yesterday.
Later in the day, when it was time to head to Hideaway for the Sunday feeding, I knew something was up when the traffic on one of the backstreets I walked was crazy with cars. Gabaya Street parallels the highway, so I figured there must be an accident or road work causing people to seek alternatives. Once I reached the National highway, my suspicions were confirmed.
I don’t know how long this situation will persist. Today’s Hash was supposed to start about 2K up the highway towards Olongapo but has been changed to the 7/11 in Barretto instead. I’m now worried about my shopping excursion to Royal in the morning. Surely, they will have something in place by then. Oh, wait. This is the Philippines. They really do need to build that bypass road they’ve talked about for years. There is no alternative route to take from here.
The food from Jewel Cafe arrived at Hideaway, but I guess the delivery girls had to walk to get there. Sorry about that! I tipped a little extra for the trouble.
It was crazy walking back to my side of town. I always walk facing the traffic, but that might have been a mistake. With the backup, the scooter drivers were more insane than usual, and it felt like I was playing dodgeball (dodgebike?). I took refuge in Cheap Charlies for a bit to calm my nerves.
I made it an early night. Crossed the highway (which is actually easier with traffic stopped for intervals) and grabbed a trike for home.
Now it’s time to prepare for a mystery Hash. I feel sorry for the Hares having to rework a trail with so little notice, but they are old-timers and shouldn’t have much trouble coming up with a plan B.
Here was what I shared on Facebook yesterday for my liberal friends to attack me over.
And can you imagine not liking Tolkien?
Here’s today’s funny:
Back tomorrow with another dose of goodness! And just a reminder that not all Traffic is bad:
Were those walkers people who had gotten out of cars driven by other people, or were they drivers who abandoned their cars?
Wow, more orb-weaver cousins! You can always tell by the shape of their webs.
If your last act as an astronaut is to die as a giant woman’s dildo, well, there are worse ways to die.
I should work on my reading-comprehension skills. You did say the people who were walking had gotten out of “Jeepneys and trikes.” So they were passengers disgusted with the slow rate of the traffic. Got it.
to die as a giant woman’s dildo
Vaguely poetic, but also ambiguous. I should have said:
to die as the dildo of a giant woman”
—just so people know we’re not talking about a normal-sized woman with a telephone-pole-sized dildo.
…and then, of course, I added an unnecessary quotation mark and fucked up my HTML, leading to crazy italics when I meant to put the phrase in boldface. The ravages of age on the mind. Sigh…
“The ravages of age on the mind.”
Welcome to my world! You’ve only just begun, rookie!
You really don’t have to use HTML code; those tabs at the top of the comment box give you the standard options like boldface and italics.
As for the phrasing of being a dildo for a giant, I got your meaning the first time, but I can see how the rewrite clears up any ambiguity. At least you are not guilty of the dreaded comma splice!
Sometimes when I’m hiking, especially in the morning, I’ll walk through a seemingly invisible spiderweb. If I ever saw one of those hand-sized spiders, I’d likely shit my pants. Of course, now that I know they are out there I’ll have one more potential answer to the age-old “What’s the worst that could happen?” question as I begin a trek into the unknown.
You really don’t have to use HTML code; those tabs at the top of the comment box give you the standard options like boldface and italics.
Interesting! The version of your comment box on my screen has never had those features. I add all my HTML manually.
bold
italic
strikethrough(which I almost never use)For me, your comment box is little more than a featureless rectangle.
Hmm, maybe my comment box is different since I’m logged in as an admin. Yep, I just checked. The comment box on the post does not have the tabs I mentioned. Sorry for the confusion!