You’re not gonna wanna miss this diary presentation from my Facebook page.
Facebook! Do you like it or not? For the longest time, I avoided FB. I thought I was already spending too much time on a computer. However, about three years ago I decided to join. Was I afraid Russians would hack me and then kidnap me and take me to Russia? No, I’ve been to Russia a couple of times. I had a great time. I don’t really worry about stuff like that. Here’s how I see it. There can’t possibly be enough criminals to activate each of the conspiracy theories in existence!
I have nearly 2,500 Facebook friends. Are these folks really close friends? Would each one lend me a dollar? Maybe not. I think you can’t really call a person a friend unless you have shared a meal with them or played a round of golf together.
I really like Facebook’s Messenger service. It’s pretty much like texting….except I can use Messenger to stay in touch with my foreign-based friends. I can even use FB Messenger to phone those folks for free.
For me, Facebook kind of reminds me of an electronic diary. I took a look back on my last 3-4 months of activity today. I’ve been traveling virtually every weekend since early June. The things I see and experience!
Today’s review of my FB diary of recent postings reminded me of several things. First, I eat some strange but delicious stuff. I have eaten like this all my life and have excellent blood work.
Secondly, I am reminded I have a smokin’ hot wife…who has skills!
Please…whatever you do don’t miss the cat and the Christmas tree video.
Yes, I see some weird stuff and when I do I’m right there with my iPhone to capture it all. FB is a great place to practice my self-deprecating humor. I take the stuff that needs to be taken seriously. The rest I share on Facebook. Which photo/situation is your favorite?
My Facebook diary from early September……
OK, here’s my problem. I worked all my life. I saved my money. I retired early hoping that my retirement stash would last a lifetime. Now I go to McDonald’s and get a double cheeseburger and a large Diet Coke and they only charge me $1.08. THEN I hear the government is going to give me another stimulus check and the stock market broke record highs today. How in the heck am I going spend my retirement savings if this keeps happening? Then I go to give blood and they don’t charge me anything to do that and then they give me all of the Oreos I can eat.
Giving blood today. Haven’t done that in a long time.
Our daughter and her family just got two kittens. They like to destroy the Christmas tree. This is a classic. Watch until the end.
Kittens take down Christmas tree. Watch until the end!!
While Carol was out I pulled this beauty. When she got home I took my whippin’ like a man and moved on down the line. Hint: I thought it was better to text her with the bad news….so the steam could dissipate.
Looking for some feedback. Specifically, how did Carol do? Each morning I sleep in a little bit/a lot later than she does. After I read the “paper“ via my phone I will commonly text her from bed with my breakfast request. Then she scurries about the kitchen and delivers breakfast to my office. I think she’s a pretty good girl. Sometimes good girls are hard to find. So how did Carol do this morning?
Celebrating Carol’s birthday before they shut down restaurant outdoor eating tonight at midnight in California!
If a person can’t power walk for a long ways under these conditions they can’t power walk for a long ways.
I’ll take a 4-mile, 14:02 per minute power walk anytime. It seems like the faster I go the more weight I gain. Right now I’m eating as much as I can hoping to qualify for the obese division to get a better starting position in the vaccine line.
I’m an absolute dumb shit. Last night I slept overnight in my Tesla Model X in Casa Grande, Arizona. It was cold last night. When I woke up it was 33° outside at 7 AM. The car’s interior was 46°. Then I realized I could’ve run the heater all night with no problem whatsoever. When I woke up I realized that. I used my iPhone to increase the interior temperature from 46° to 77° in three minutes. A guy shouldn’t have cool tech stuff if he doesn’t know how to use it. I’m a dumb shit.
When Carol is out I get the chance to make my own dessert. Today’s concoction, blueberry jelly, Jif chunky peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and Nutella chocolate. Real good.
Mask up, please!
OK, what do I do now? The cardboard is technically paper, right?
OK, I don’t want you to get the impression that I am spoiled. Carol was delivering on lunch, again in my office. That sounds to me like I work a lot and I’ve been retired for 19 years! As a parting comment, she just wanted to make sure that four packets of salsa were going to be enough for my quesadilla. I shooed her away. The laundry wasn’t going to do itself. I might take a nap after lunch. Tonight IS Taco Tuesday.
What should I do when my wife delivers breakfast to me every morning at my office desk and includes a serving of hash browns when I didn’t order it? Is “not mention it“ a good choice? I think so.
This video clip looks like a scene from a war movie. In reality it was yesterday’s UTV racing way out in Globe, Arizona.
UTV racing in the desert – Globe, Arizona
Stick with me on this one. I went to McDonald’s and ordered two Egg McMuffin‘s. The guy over the drive-through speaker told me that would be $10 and asked if I might like to go with the sausage McMuffin instead of selling two for four dollars. He didn’t know that I had an electronic coupon where I could buy two Egg McMuffin‘s for five dollars. I prefer the Egg McMuffin‘s even if it was going to cost me a dollar more today. On the one hand, the cashier was a nice guy for giving me the option to save some money. On the other hand, the owner of the McDonald’s might not like his employees down selling a customer from a $10 sale to a four dollar sale. I found it all interesting.
Not only is there no gasoline expense for this car but it was my hotel last night in Arizona! Get outta here!
What do we learn from this photo?
I rent 75 cars a year. Each one comes with a handy “trash center“ located right behind the front passenger seat. The trash you see here accumulated between gasoline fill-ups. It can get really bad if I forget to empty the trash after stopping for gas. I’ve seen the trash center overflow Into the backseat before. It took me years before I could convince Carol that this was an acceptable form of travel. Now she seems to see the convenience of the idea.
I am happy to be an American. Where else in the world can you eat at Waffle house when you’re on vacation and In-N-Out Burgers when you return from your trip?? There is not another country in the world where you can do that.
Tonight on my flight home from North Carolina the guy in the row behind me didn’t want to wear a mask. He got into it with the flight attendants. After he accepted one of their complimentary masks he was still being a problem. The captain heard about the issue and made a PA announcement telling everyone that he was more than willing to turn the plane around and taxi back to the gate. Later in the flight, the guy still wouldn’t wear his mask. At that point, the flight attendant told him that the captain was going to divert the flight. He reluctantly put his mask back on but from time to time still maintained his opposition to wearing a mask. When the plane landed we were told to all remain seated while an airline representative (a big guy!)came on the flight and escorted this guy, a 55-year-old white guy, off the plane. I don’t think he’ll be flying on this airline again anytime soon! Come on people check your attitude at the door. Wear your mask. What harm can it do? Maybe it might help. If you can’t play by the rules of the game don’t fly!
Greetings from Charlotte. This is what the hotel parking lot looks like when I decide to sleep in.
I caught a naval ship passing by tonight from our living room window. That’s Catalina Island in the second photo.
Folks, I can’t even make this stuff up. I actually talked to this woman. She told me her bird has “anxiety” when left alone. People are just too weird for my tastes.
Power is information. Information is power. This four outlet charger handles my MacBook computer, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and when those are done AirPods and Bose noise-canceling headset.
I couldn’t pull the trigger on a 450 calorie piece of pound cake at this morning’s hotel buffet breakfast.
Just like my southern friends have recommended I now go exclusively with butter and salt on my grits.
So when did Snickers change their packaging to this?
Happy Halloween from Detroit, Michigan!
Even the sodas are social distancing!
This seems reasonable to me.
Wasn’t expecting this. I was patted down, placed in the backseat of this Pennsylvania State patrol car and taken away. I lead an exciting lifestyle!
How did I end up in the back of an Ohio state police car? Pretty simple actually. While driving down Interstate 80 at 80 miles an hour in Youngstown, Ohio my Toyota Camry rental car laid an egg. All of a sudden it would only go about 25 miles an hour. The dash said there was an electronic problem with the engine. I immediately pulled from the fast lane into the median to keep from getting run over. I had driven nearly 4 hours and was only 45 miles from this afternoon‘s race track visit. Now I was out of commission. After calling National Car Rental to get my car towed to some unknown location I had a choice. I could try to cross several lanes of traffic on foot, carrying two pieces of luggage, with big trucks bearing down at high rates of speed to get to the other side of the highway where I might be able to get a ride…if I made it or I could simply call 911 and have a cop come and help me. I like cops so I went with that choice. When the state trooper came up he insisted that for both, “my safety and his safety” that he pat me down. It had to look like a bad situation with me bent over the hood of his car being “checked for weapons” to passersby. I was OK with that. I didn’t know those folks! The only open seat in the patrol car for me was in the backseat just like I’ve seen so many people on “COPS” do. The trooper took me to a hotel where National Car Rental had arranged for an Uber ride for me from Youngstown to Pittsburgh which was about an hour’s drive. The Uber driver had a million slice of life stories including her experiences on dating websites. She said most guys want to “start way to fast” by asking for nude photos to see if the “relationship is worth pursuing”. Folks, I can’t make this $hit up! Once at the Pittsburgh International Airport I grabbed another Toyota Camry and resumed the trip to see some exciting racing at the “Hayfield 125” racetrack. This was all part of a good day of trackchasing fun for me!
It’s the middle of the week for gosh sakes. Don’t people work anymore? Who’s going to pay for my social security?
I’m fond of fine dining when I’m on the road.
Remember when people used to stand in long lines outside of an Apple store waiting to get the newest iPhone? Today I stood in an “electronic” line to get the new iPhone 12. As a young boy, I never could’ve imagined I would be charging my electric vehicle at 5 AM waiting to buy a camera that didn’t use film that came with a telephone! The most unusual part of all of this is that I would be up at 5 AM.
Anybody else looking for a hearty breakfast on a Sunday morning?
So you’re thinking about being a trackchaser? Are you ready? If you are you’re going to have to do trips like this. On Thursday night I flew overnight on the redeye from Los Angeles to Boston. On Friday night I got five hours of sleep in my Boston area hotel. On Saturday night I got one hour of sleep overnight in my rental car. I ended up flying around 5000 miles and driving about 900 miles in order to add two new tracks in Maine and Texas to my lifetime list. Are you ready? Oh yeah. Just to try to stay in shape I walked more than 4 miles each day.
I’m trackchasing in southern Maine tonight. I’ve always thought that Maine’s lobster rolls were tremendously overpriced. I thought I would give them another chance tonight. My dinner including a fountain soft drink was just north of $35. The lobster roll was 20 bucks. Was it worth it? No, not really.
I had a fun experience today getting to spend an hour with IndyCar driver and IndyCar owner Dick Simon. What a nice, energetic and daredevil guy he has been. He’s the oldest driver ever to start an Indy 500 at the age of 55. He has a career-best finish in the 500 of sixth. He even ran the Daytona 500 and started 52nd and finished seventh in a Talladega NASCAR Cup race. All pretty amazing!
My California-born, bred and garaged Tesla Model X is not going to end up like this, is it?
I’ve never known if it was the racing or the food that has attracted me to the road over the years. I can never pass up Skyline Chili when I visit Cincinnati, Ohio the chili capital of the world!
I’m teaching myself Spanish.
Hey Siri, “how do you say take me to the Waffle House in Spanish?”
I often eat lunch in my Tesla. When I do I watch educational YouTube videos!
I couldn’t do this in the my very first car, a 1955 Pontiac Chieftan
You just gotta love Love’s Truck Stops! Life is always better when your smile gets there before you do.
Who else wants to join me in attempting to eat a 72 oz. steak and a few side orders including a salad and three jumbo shrimp in one hour? If we can do it, it’s all free! You with me?
Cadillac Ranch. Amarillo, Texas. Don’t miss it!
Check out the four-prong outlet that stands about 7 feet above the floor. Er… why?
This might be the last time I ask for a top floor room!
When Carol comes along on the trip I like to treat her to fine dining. Who don’t like a Waffle House with cellophane? Welcome to Texas.
This was a first. When we arrived at DFW airport we noticed these electronic signs indicating how many bathroom stalls were available. I wonder how they measure that?!
I don’t understand. Why would I buy three pretzels if I was only going to get one?
Yesterday I bit the bullet and bought the new Apple Watch Series 6. One of the new features is the watch can measure my blood oxygen level. So far so good!
Today I went powerwalking at the beach. When I returned I was cleaning the sand off of my shoes over this balcony when my AirPod fell through the grate. How was I going to get it? Carol! You need to know that I thank my lucky stars before I go to bed every night in knowing that I never fed her too much over all the years.
I woke up this morning in Billings, Montana. I spent the morning and afternoon in and around Seattle. Then I was back home in our sleepy little seaside village of San Clemente before 8 PM. In the meantime, I got in 8.1 miles of walking!
When you get up at 5 AM for an early morning flight the last thing you need when you’re just a mile from the airport is to run into a train. What’s worse than that? Two trains!
These two trains were raising my blood pressure…I had a plane to catch!
My Iowa State University T-shirt is making its debut today on the way to the Windy Hollow Speedway in Owensboro, Kentucky. I got this shirt a couple of weekends ago while touring the campus with our nephew, Kyle Jecks.
I frequently find “lucky pennies” on the ground. I always stop to pick them up. On this trip, I found two. I’ve had all the luck anyone could expect in my life. So each time I get a lucky penny I throw it into the back of a pick-up truck bed or sit it on someone’s back bumper so maybe that penny will bring them good luck.
