It will come as no surprise to learn that there was nothing surprising about my Thursday. That won’t stop me from posting about it, but at least today’s diary entry will be short and sweet.

Then we moved on to Wet Spot for our nightcap. And that’s all there was to it. Yeah, maybe it is surprising to have a more boring day than usual.

The appetite remains more or less suppressed. A couple of pandesal biscuits for breakfast. A pulled pork sandwich after the hike (but I didn’t eat the bun). And four or five chicken fingers at the dinner hour. None of the usual between-meal snacks, although I did have a strawberry-banana smoothie (made with yogurt instead of ice cream) as a before-bedtime treat.

I try to avoid politics here at LTG for the most part, but sometimes I can’t resist:

Ten years ago, I met a gal with a heart of stone while hiking in Seoul:

It’s still May 2018 in the LTG archives, but at least now I’m having a good day in the Philippines. Of course, wherever you are, your happiness depends on you. I’m getting better at accepting the way things are. Not exactly serenity, but I’ve been worse.

I think the only episodes of “90-Day Fiancé” I ever watched were the ones with Big Ed and Rose. At the time, I considered Ed an ignorant loser. In today’s YouTube video, Smart Girl Philippines highlights what Ed got wrong. I never heard the epilogue to the story, but I’m sure Rose came out of it just fine.

Let’s end this on a happy note:

Yeah, this post sucks. So, we’ll leave it at that and try to do better tomorrow.

Chip Taylor passed away yesterday. I never knew who he was, but reading his obituary and Wikipedia page today was a voyage of discovery. Here’s the first song of his I ever heard. Man, the 60s were a groovy time to be alive.