What else am I going to do on a Tuesday? Well, there’s always the beach, but we’ll get to that later.
First stop on shopping day is always the BPI branch at Harbor Point MallI refill fill the wallet when the ATM is working. And yesterday it was!Next stop is the grocery storeWe arrived a few minutes before the 9 a.m. opening and had to wait outside.Let the shopping begin!Swan is working hard filling that cartThese fish are so fresh they aren’t even dead yetCheckout timeRinging ’em up and boxing ’em upAnother week, another three hundred bucksLet’s roll!Shakey’s was THE place for pizza when I was growing up in Southern Cal.Leaving SBMA through the Kalaklan gateI see dead people. Olongapo’s hillside cemetery.Heading home on the curvy National HighwayCurvy in the back seat, tooBack in BarrettoDriver Danny got us home safe once againAnd now we unload
So, that’s what shopping looks like around here. Pretty exciting, huh? In the afternoon I took Swan to the beach. We started at McCoy’s:
The view from our seatsThe view of usSubic BayHeading down the beach to Kokomo’sOur Kokomo’s viewBaloy Long BeachThe late afternoon skyOur dinner venue was next door at Foxhole (formerly knows as DaKudos)My ex, Jessa, was once again our waitress.The pork chop dinner has really gone downhill since the change in ownership. Smaller chops and very dry. I’ll stick to Mango’s for my chops in the future.
After our meal, we headed home. The night didn’t end well, but that’s a story for another day.
Yep, more and more I realize that I don’t have time enough left for drama.
I can’t resist inserting a small taste of politics here:
We have a shitty president
I joined Facebook in 2009 and today’s memories are from my posts on this day fifteen years ago:
My Directorate of Human Resources Management teammatesMe at the 8th Army BallMy favorite business name in Itaewon
Ah, the good ol’ days…gone but not forgotten.
Man, that Hawk Tuah girl is burning up the internet, isn’t she?
Today’s YouTube video comes from my favorite, the Filipina Pea. In this episode she’s hanging out with her girlfriend and swapping tales. Enjoy the eye candy:
And now for some humor:
It’s the thought that countsHe should have had Kevin Kim alongYeah, she’s lacking something, no ifs, ands, or butts about it.
Anyway, my head is in a weird place right now, but hopefully I’ll figure out what to do next. Stay tuned.
5 thoughts on “Let’s go shopping”
Shakey’s was THE place for pizza when I was growing up in Southern Cal.
When I was a kid in northern Virginia, we had a Shakey’s down the street. When I played league soccer as a kid, that’s where we’d go at the end of the season.
The night didn’t end well, but that’s a story for another day.
That could mean just about anything, from breathing problems to arguments. But it’s a Dan Brown-style narrative hook, so I’ll await the explanation.
We have a shitty president
But at least we know where he is at all times.
Me at the 8th Army Ball
With your horned demon mistress.
Yeah, she’s lacking something, no ifs, ands, or butts about it.
Sorry the pork chops were dry. They looked good, at least.
A better Dan Brown link is here. “Narrative hook” formula explained.
Looks like a pretty big portion of your grocery shopping is cookies and candies. That kind of justifies the weekly cost I guess. LOL
Going back to a post from a couple of days ago. IIRC, you were at the Maze and went from one bar to one of the others, both of which were owned by the same guy. Does one bar try to distinguish itself from the other, or is the vibe really just based on the difference in waitresses/GRO’s?
Brian, two of the six bars in the Maze and two have the same owner–Wet Spot and Green Room. Wet Spot has dancers and Green Room bills itself as a sports bars. Both have GROs, but there is a different vibe between the two.
I spend around $25 on cookies and candy at Royal, so that’s a small percentage of my weekly expenditures.
Last I read, there were only a couple of Shakey’s franchises left in the USA (on the West Coast). They are booming here in the PI. I’m not sure how that happens.
Thanks for the Dan Brown links; I wasn’t familiar with him, although I did see The Da Vinci Code. The situation I mentioned has been resolved–it was a misunderstanding between Swan and me. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, I suppose.
I hadn’t seen the meme, but yeah, Tom Holland is an ass compared to Brie Larson.
Shakey’s was THE place for pizza when I was growing up in Southern Cal.
When I was a kid in northern Virginia, we had a Shakey’s down the street. When I played league soccer as a kid, that’s where we’d go at the end of the season.
The night didn’t end well, but that’s a story for another day.
That could mean just about anything, from breathing problems to arguments. But it’s a Dan Brown-style narrative hook, so I’ll await the explanation.
We have a shitty president
But at least we know where he is at all times.
Me at the 8th Army Ball
With your horned demon mistress.
Yeah, she’s lacking something, no ifs, ands, or butts about it.
Remember that old Tom Holland-versus-Brie Larson meme?
Sorry the pork chops were dry. They looked good, at least.
A better Dan Brown link is here. “Narrative hook” formula explained.
Looks like a pretty big portion of your grocery shopping is cookies and candies. That kind of justifies the weekly cost I guess. LOL
Going back to a post from a couple of days ago. IIRC, you were at the Maze and went from one bar to one of the others, both of which were owned by the same guy. Does one bar try to distinguish itself from the other, or is the vibe really just based on the difference in waitresses/GRO’s?
Brian, two of the six bars in the Maze and two have the same owner–Wet Spot and Green Room. Wet Spot has dancers and Green Room bills itself as a sports bars. Both have GROs, but there is a different vibe between the two.
I spend around $25 on cookies and candy at Royal, so that’s a small percentage of my weekly expenditures.
Last I read, there were only a couple of Shakey’s franchises left in the USA (on the West Coast). They are booming here in the PI. I’m not sure how that happens.
Thanks for the Dan Brown links; I wasn’t familiar with him, although I did see The Da Vinci Code. The situation I mentioned has been resolved–it was a misunderstanding between Swan and me. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, I suppose.
I hadn’t seen the meme, but yeah, Tom Holland is an ass compared to Brie Larson.