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"I'll Follow the Sun"

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When I first started this BLOG, it was at the time I had just retired and I wanted to keep a journal of my activities during retirement. My dad had taken my Mom to Florida for retirement after I went off to college, and he kept a journal. I like reading it now, and I tried to type it into the computer, but I am a slow typist and my dad wrote a lot. Lately, I have fallen into the trap of writing rarely and pretty much about my dining and reading activity, but I am doing a lot more than that. I need to focus more on the day to day activities and not the bucket list. Maybe I will give it up and I'll Follow the Sun .. Or the Moon. During the early morning hours of March 3, there was going to be a total eclipse of the moon. I went out the evening before  to check the weather, and it was starting to cloud over so I took this shot of the full moon. Sadly to say, when I got up at 6 am, the moon, which was suppose to be eclipsed, was covered by clouds and so no Red Moon photos. At least I t...
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Dining 2026 - Weeks 9-10

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 In the last two weeks of 2026 I have eaten at four different places with one new for me (I think). I stopped at the Lone Cabbage Fish Camp after a morning of photography at the Orlando Wetlands. I think it is new for me, but I may have went once with my parents. Since dad passed in 1991, I figured it has been at least 35 years since I visited. First, the simple Stats... Statistics Current Weeks: 9-10   # NEW Restaurants:         Current:1   Total:3   Goal:3 # Different Restaurants:    Current:4   Total:16  Goal:10 Here are the restaurants added since the last post... 3/4/26 - BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - Scored 3.0 (Great) This is one of my favorite spots for lunch and not because of its great name. I go because it has some good lunch specials during the week (M-F) which includes a small pizookie (short for pizza cookie). The Melbourne place opened in 2016 just outside of the Melbourne Square Mall. The...
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"You Never Give Me Your Money"

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 It seems to me that I am never prepared for the death of someone I know. Sometimes you know they are near death but the moment still surprises me. Sometimes, there is no warning and the death surprises everyone. My friend Robert "Bob" Austin just died and I was totally surprised. I heard about it on Facebook from his son Rick announcing the sad event. Luckily I know Rick well enough to ask him what happened. I have known Robert for more than 25 years. I met him at Coasters, where he spent time with his dad Jim Austin, and good family friend John Pitkethly, who happened to be my boss at ENSCO for many years. Eventually, I started to play golf in a foursome with Robert and John and coworker Gaylen Drape. When I met Robert at Coasters back in the late 1990s, he was usually there with his wife Nancy and their son Rick. This is a picture of Nancy at Coasters, with Robert on the right hiding from the camera. Nancy died a few years after this photo. It was back in 2000 I was playin...
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"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"

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 My Bucket List of Books to Read and Goodreads list of "Want to Read" are full of titles and I continue to read into 2026. Happiness is a Warm Gun , I mean Happiness is a good book... The past few years I have been writing a post after reading 5 books. I have decided to do the BLOG post every two months, which turns out to be six books, since my yearly goal is 36. It just happens that I am one book behind this year so here are the first five books I have read in 2026. The Girl in the Spider's Web (#1) Written by David Lagercrantz; published in 2015; 400 pages; BJ Score 3.0 (Great) I loved the Stieg Larsson's three Millennium novels  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest when I read them. Then Larsson died and then his estate asked Lagercrantz to write this novel with the characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. All the stories take place in Sweden and are thrillers, where Lisbeth is a hack...
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