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catching a glimpse

I’ve spent the last several weeks trying to adjust a lot of things in my life. How I eat, how I exercise. Those are external behaviors, of course.

I’ve also been trying to adjust my attitude, which anyone who has met me probably would heartily recommend. That’s a bit harder than just choosing an apple instead of a bag of chips.

But, oddly enough, it seems to be working. I have times, actually like chunks of a day or more, where I feel.. almost normal. Almost happy. And that’s fucking huge. I know I sound pretty whiny, a lot, and even here I do. But really it is exhausting to be just down all. the. time. So it’s nice to feel like I finally have my nose above water.

Even if only for a while, before another rogue wave comes along.

Oh, yeah, I’m running again. Some.

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Goggle phonic

We recently purchased some swim goggles. While we haven’t been swimming any more this summer than previous summers, they seem to be using about triple the chemicals in the water than they used to. It could be related to some nasty bugs that got loose one year at one of the pools, or maybe my eyes are getting old, but still. Some days after just minutes splashing around my eyes sting.

Anyway, googles me bought.

They are pretty cool, because I bought the kind with the diopter so they stand in handily for my glasses. So now I can see and swim at the same time. Much better than wearing glasses and worrying they might fall off or get broken.

Oui.I’d show you a picture, but like I said, the camera cord is missing (I refuse to say it “went missing” because shit, it didn’t do anything by itself, it’s an inanimate object, which I have misplaced). So here’s a picture that looks a lot like me wearing the goggles on my head, except I’m much older, fatter, and hairier, and not nearly as French.

The minor downside to having prescription goggles is that now I can see all the “stuff” in the water. I keep my mouth closed. Tight.

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Have you ever put wine in your water glass, and forgotten, and then taken a big gulp of what turned out to be wine?

Just me?

Okay, then.

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Zona de Salpicadura


Canoe Shamu?
Originally uploaded by silly old bear.

My son convinced me to sit down front for the Shamu show. It was hot, hot hot, because the sun was beating down (three in the afternoon) and I thought a little splash of water would feel good.

For some reason, Shamu multiplies during the show, and by the end there were four of the buggers. And they all hit us at once.

Gallons, people, gallons.

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