Hello Campers

08 Feb 24

05:45 hrs

Hello Campers, 

     

     A lot has happened since I last wrote to you and there is much more to come, so buckle up Buttercup!

24 Mar 24

07:45 hrs

     I must have had a huge brain cramp because I had totally forgotten that I was writing this blog. Not that it matters because no one is really reading this anyways. I wish someone would have messaged me to say, "Hey! Where the hell are you? I miss your verbal ramblings!" 

     Anyways, on with the show.

     Not having enough of a fun time in Sin City, my Better Half and I traveled to Cuba for some sun, sand and relaxation. We left our Island on the Left Coast on the 10th of February and returned on tbe 22nd. Cuba was...Cuba. The overall quality of the food has dropped even lower, if that's even possible and there were other deficiencies. My Lobster had somehow injured her knee in Sin City and it was still bothering her to walk so we slowly moved around the resort to different venues to play cribbage and people watch. People Watching is quite the past time for us at these resorts. Of course you never know their real names so we make up monikers to identify them. Names like Spider Legs - he was this nearly sixty year old Quebecer with a growing forehead and scrawny bandy legs that were the same diameter from his ankle to his hip. Another was Dumber and Dumber - a pair of over six-foot wannabes from the Golden Horseshoe who drank from sun up to sun down and beyond while wandering the resort ogling women which did cause some physical friction between them and the ladies partners. There were the Flossy Twins - a couple of twenty somethings who wore a different set of matching string bikinis every day they went to the beach. There were others as well but I'm sure you get the point. 

     We did meet some other people. We hung out with a family from K'loops for a while. I sent them a copy of my books after we got home. And there was a couple from la Belle Provence whose conversations we found to be quite engaging. While in Cuba the Russian Tyrant killed Alexei Navalny. It didn't seem to phase the oligarchs or the nouveau Russians that were now at the resort in increasing numbers. In the end we realized that we had now done this vacation spot three times and the bloom was off the rose. Adios Cuba.

26 Mar 24

09:00 hrs

     My Lobster is having me create an annex to the Catio. It will positioned partially on the lawn with a tunnel access from the main Catio. Oh joy. I hope the damn furballs like it.

     We're getting geared up for the day when our Jr. Loin Fruit heads of for his career in the military. Its been a tough slog to get him enlisted. Too many hoops and bottle necks. The CAF is suffering from low enrollment as potential members have to wait years to get accepted and quite often they simply say FU and move on to another career. If and when it happens, the Wayward Inn will be quieter that's for sure. I should ask the Sage what it was like at home when I headed off for my own career at the ripe old age of 18. 

     The Sr. Couch Monkey has completed his second phase and is working diligently on a major project in town. He and his Significant Other are talking about possibly moving to Capital City in a year or so. That's going to be interesting for a whole host of reasons. 

     My Lobster is slogging away at her job. The front room was converted to an office last year complete with two cat stands. After breakfast she announces, "Who's coming to work?" The three of them follow her in and take their positions. It's kinda cute.

     It was brought to my attention that we, my Better Half and myself, had not had an eye exam in quite some time. Seven years! So, off we went. Exams done then off to the Big Box Store to select new frames. Thank goodness insurance will cover nearly 80%. I'm sure we will be happier when they arrive in a couple of weeks.

     One of my favourite local radio stations was an Oldie station based out of Hub City and the Sunshine Coast with a repeater station located across the Strait at Pee River - it was usually one song behind the main station. I like these stations as they play the tunes that I grew up with. Things you can hum along with or tap your toes to or have crooning in the background. Yesterday,  I tuned the radio in only to hear disco. That's right, honest to GOD nuts in a vice soprano squealing glass shattering synthetic driven cacophony. I turned it off. I was having none of that crap. They had changed formats. But, what about the repeater station across the Strait? Today I searched the freqs and found that the repeater station had maintained the original format. Music played on real instruments. Thank the Heavens for small miracles.

     Speaking of music, have you ever heard Cathedral by Van Halen? I've heard the song a gazillion times and I always thought it was Eddie Van Halen working the keyboard. Well, listen to the song and then look on YouTube for the video of him performing the song. It will surprise the shit out of you. It's all on guitar! That man had some talent!

27 Mar 24

08:00 hrs

     It's wet out. March came in like a lion and it's looking like it will go out like a lion. So much for old adage.

29 Mar 24

08:00 hrs

     Just the other day my Lobster informed me that as of April 01, 2024 the federal government members of the Great White North will become the second most well paid elected in the world. Their average pay will be in excess of 200K. If a member has a portfolio the increase is even more.The Head Honcho will see a pay raise of 10K+. And this is happen on the same day that the punishing carbon tax is set to increase by 23%. So, in other words, our elected officials give themselves a big ass pay raise while penalizing those who elected them. 

     Maybe, we shouldn't elect them.