I can’t wait to become less impatient.
A nice 6K hike with the Friday group to start my day. I’m going to be a Hare for the Hash on February 6, and this will work for the short trail:
I’ll add the photos from our journey at the end of this post.
Friday night is the SOB dance contest, and Whiskey Girl bar was the host this week. I got there early to secure a front-row seat for my viewing pleasure. And also because I’m a judge. The dancers are really stepping up their game and seem to have developed a competitive spirit. Good to see them having fun while entertaining us.
Last week’s champion, Voodoo, took third place:
Alaska is always a contender, and this week took second place.
And for the first time ever, Whiskey Girl took the crown, or banner as it were.
Here is the Whiskey Girl performance on video if you want to watch the action:
And as an added bonus, here’s my friend Irish from Queen Victoria bar:
I did, in fact, go to Queen Vic after the SOB, but I’d had too much to drink already, so just bought Irish and Susan one drink each and got my sorry ass home before I did something I might regret.
So, let’s take a hike, shall we?
Another good day. I have a lot to be thankful for.
UPDATE: Facebook reminds me that it was 18 years ago today that I made the life-changing move to Korea. Nothing has ever been the same since, and without Korea, I wouldn’t have found my way to the Philippines. There is much that I regret in my life, but leaving the USA and discovering a whole new world was the right move for me. Who knows what would have happened in wife #3 kept her promise to join me in Korea? Or if wife #4 kept her vow to love me until death do us part? But this is the life I have found, and this is the life I will live. For better or worse.
Lovely photos of the hike, but that “Galaxy A23” stamp got annoying. Can that be turned off? I assume it can: some photos don’t have the label.
As long as you’ve made your peace with Gem (Gem? Gen? I’m all confused now), it’s all good in the ‘hood.
Yes, I don’t know how that “feature” got turned on, but I’ve turned it off again. The photos from the hike without it I cropped, but I didn’t have the patience to do all of them.
It’s Gen, but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t thinking of her as a “Gem” when I wrote this post. Kind of ruins my playing off “jumpin’ Gemini.” Oh well, another milestone on the road to dementia.
She still hints around about being more than friends, but there is always something to remind me how wrong she would be for me.
Saw this article about onions, which reminded me of you
https://mothership.sg/2023/01/philippine-airlines-smuggling-onions/
Thanks for the link. Yeah, there have been a couple of other onion smugglers caught recently. I guess onions are more lucrative than drugs these days. The shelves are bare of them in my grocery store.
Now I’m thinking of Ser Davos from A Song of Ice and Fire, who was nicknamed “the Onion Knight” for when he smuggled a supply of onions (because that’s all he could get) to a detachment of starving troops. That would be my worst nightmare: living exclusively on onions for days.