It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

Sunny days are here again and hopefully they will give the humdidity the boot once and for all. Two and a bit more weeks of doing all our club's online bridge games until Colin restarts Tuesday January 2. It's been a grind since mid-October but we are always eager to look after things when the other is away.

I watched a number of videos on YouTube yesterday giving graphical versions of what coastal cities could look like with rise in sea levels. I have two opinions about climate change:

1. It's a fact ... watch out for more persistent extreme weather and invasive rises in sea levels
2. It's a fact ... but there is a humungous amount of $$ to be made by "experts" ringing in on future with mild to nasty exaggerations of what they see as happening. In this court, it is impossible to discern between facts and opinions

Worst-case scenarios could see the disappearance of a large part of Florida. This is the legacy of what we may leave our offspring and theirs too. With one country in the world the self-professed leader of the western world AND the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses ... that is a summary of how f__k__ we are.

The noise from the main beach is getting louder and louder each night as we approach Christmas a week today. It's the throbbing bass and loud banter between songs that penetrate the condo most. In Mexico they open their Xmas presents on Epiphany. It is a special date for many Christians as it's when people celebrate how a star led the Magi - also known as the Three kings or the Wise Men - to visit the baby Jesus after he had been born. We were recently told that "rich" households sometimes open gifts both Xmas day and Epiphany.

I can only imagine the tingling that goes on with the little ones as the morning of opening approaches. When I devoured MAD magazine as a youngster, the line art done in the margin sometimes showed a child with dots radiating from the body and called it tingling (with excitement or anticipation). I always find it amusing when we selectively remember things from our past then cannot recall the name of someone we met just yesterday 😀

We are expecting the same guy to come between 11 and noon to adjust the lie of the fixed glass doors to the balcony. While here we will see if he can remove the sliding glass and maybe screen as well so we can attach some weatherstripping as discussed in previous posts. The brush stuff we ordered will probably be used for a number of different locations which include:

• The space between the sliding and fixed doors in the living room when they are open or closed
• The space between the screen doors and the sliding glass doors when the glass doors are open
• A similar application for the sliding glass and screen doors in both bedrooms

Some of the creatures, especially geckos no bigger than a 25 cent coin can squeeze through just about anywhere but we are hoping the thick brush compressed against wood or glass will take care of that conundrum.

By about 3:15 we realized the guy was not going to show for the work on the sliding glass doors. We called Sigi and he mentioned the guy "may be able to come" tomorrow. We will not sit around waiting as we did today, so Sigi will call us when he has spoken to the guy when he is on his way.

After a yummy dinner we watched Crocodile Dundee III and figured out why there was no IV ... the calibre of the movie was not even close to the first two. The plot was weak (there was one?) and the acting bush league. We then watched an exposé on the Traveling Wilburys and it was a treat for all. Dominique especially was enthralled by those five musical icons/geniuses together in one room. They ran through the recording of most of their first album. Sad that only two of them are still alive ... Dylan and Lynn. I then test drove a few of their songs and may some more time on them. Buenos noches todos ...