We’re getting what has become the signature weekend weather for 2025, a steady rainfall. For the first weekend since our return from Panama neither my Favorite Panamanian nor I have anything on our schedule so it has become a vegetative day. I thought retirement would hold a lot more of these than it does. Somehow days get filled up and are gone is truly accelerated mode. This modality comes more from doing things we enjoy versus the drudgery of employment, but still, it seems almost unfair that time now moves so much faster. I can remember my elders telling a younger version of myself to enjoy my youth because it is fleeting. I wished I had listened harder.
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Saturated Deckzilla Today |
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Front Yard Not Any Better |
Great Aunt Enjoying her Granddaughter |
Six movies fell in the A-Z watch, all keepers: Pirates of the Caribbean, At World’s End – best of the pirates movies; Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides – always love seeing Penelope Cruz, but this is last pirates movie I have as it shows a descent; Pitch Black – origins of Riddick, loved Rahda Mitchell in this; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles – still incredibly funny, John Candy was a national treasure; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – great action flick as I start in the three versions of the Apes starting with most recent; War of Planet of the Apes – really dark follow on film with a deadly Woody Harrelson.
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RECURRING CHARACTERS:
ABFA – Amazing Best Family
Athlete – my daughter
in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter
#3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel -
second granddaughter; Cantankerous
Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue about everything,
poses as radical leftist to attract women; CRC - Connecticut Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high
school, renowned sailor of the big river; Curbside
Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her single days in
Brooklyn; Czech Connection – Czech couple who’ve become good friends
along with their daughter (the Czech Shadow); Deckzilla – our backyard deck which grew to monstrous dimensions
once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite
Panamanian - the wife (of course); FBR
- First Blog Reader - first granddaughter; First Friday – celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene Friends 1 & 2 – friends since
high school from my home town of Keene, NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend since kindergarten whom I reunited
with after many years; Maine and
Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my
wife is the 3rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew – son of Great Aunt and Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close
friend and Panamanian mafia member; PanaGals
– female relatives /friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; PCR - Pittsburgh College Roommate – high
school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; PCR+1 - Pittsburgh College Roommate’s wife; Riggins - also known as the Grandpuppy,
son's dog; Seis Amigos - two couples from our condo complex and my wife
and I; Soxfather – my brother-in-law
(whom I miss more than I can ever explain); Tia Loca – wife’s younger
sister; Wingman – my son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom, of course
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