I am leaving a parking lot on Babbitt street, on the corner of gay street, and just before I hit the road I see a little squirrel, trying to cross the road. The squirrel makes a dash and escapes the 1st car (on a double lane road) which slows down, but the squirrel does not make it to the other end.:(
Sad to see, I think it was still alive, I considered running the poor thing over to prevent it from further pain, but couldn’t. this was not the saddest thing today.
On a completely unrelated event, I was hoping that wiggan would not lose today to allow my united team to be champions, but no luck, Chelsea abused them with 8:0----8, shocking to win, almost ending this horrible sports year for my teams worldwide. The only good thing is Boston, with a win today and 2:2 in the series, perhaps something will happen here. I cannot wait for next season..what an awful “almost” season.
Back to normal and our lease was up for renewal, we didn’t decide what we should do, look for a new place now, or next year. In the end we settled for 6 more months here, so we expect to move by November. Our 6 months lease is more expensive (a$$ holes). So I get the bill which is without the extra 50$ monthly and pay it on time. I get a call from the office saying the check is wrong, they say they sent the wrong bill, I say I will pay as soon as the right one appears, we shake hands over the phone and next day there is an eviction notice on my door..if you don’t pay by …. We will evict you.
I felt like looking for a new place right away, what a chutzpa. Of course, the right check the next day and the issue was resolved. Not an impressive story , only true.
About a month ago I went on an orienteering event, but unlike previous times, I volunteered to help set up the controls, which means I have to be spot on accurate, usually, if you get close to the area, you see the control, but when you set them, you can’t make a mistake. So I get to a this state park, the trees are in full bloom. I park and right from my car sit I spot a red robin. A cute red bird, few meters to the side, a bunny hops on the grass, and off to the side ,a chipmunk is running. My 1st realization is the I have my camera. Actually a good reason why the latest camera is alive since august is me keep forgetting to take it. I start my orienteering with 4 control points to set, the 1st one is easy, on a big sign, but on a tree on top I notice a wood pecker. The only time I have seen a wood pecker is in a cartoon. And again I recall the lack of the camera. I waste about an hour on point #2, I think I got it in end, or at least very close to the point, and manage to get 3 and 4 very accurately , and see 3 more deer, skinny deer since the winter just ended. It takes make just over an hour and a half to complete and I return.
We went to a Chinese place a few days ago, the place looks fancy, the dishes look nice, but what happened to the flavor? They had dishes with the name of the province they came from ( Hunan, schatchwan) but again, the flavor was lacking.
2 weeks later I went on another orienteering event. This time is was a score event- and I made a strategic mistake by going to the close and easy one’s first, I was making decent time on the easy points, then picked up some harder ones, I was doing well till point number 8, I spent half an hour on it (in a 90 minutes race) and couldn’t find it, I picked up some more towards the ends, and made it with 10 minutes to spare but not enough time to get any more points (should never go for the easy one’s first, a rookie mistake.) I know my score, but they didn’t posted the result, so I don’t know how bad I did.
I had another orienteering yesterday, this time it was beginners event, so I took a group out and showed them how, nothing special except it rained and my shoes were soaked.
2 weeks ago we went to see john lovitz, he is an actor/ comedian and by far the best I have seen here, he’s warm up act was great too.
Not a lot of updates
May you all have a happy may
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