Wednesday 5:26 AM

 It’s the 182nd day of the year!

I like this image:

Indiana’s calling.

Tuesday 7:11 PM: Waiting

 

The Sportage has AC.  Hurray!

Today was a day of waiting.  I waited to get the AC repaired.  I waited to order at the BSM A&W.  I waited for my order at Popeye’s where I couldn’t understand what the clerk was saying. I waited for the road construction flag man to let us go past a lane in the process of being resurfaced. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my dear wife on the 14th of July.

It’s the 181st day of the year!

 Norway and the Ivory Coast are tied one-one late in the second half.  

July 2nd will be Hump Day 2026!!

I have the Sportage at Planet KIA.  The A/C needs fixing.

Ill luck is good for something.

• Donde no hay huellas de vieja caridad cristiana, hasta la más pura cortesía tiene algo frio, hipócrita, duro.
• Where there are no vestiges of old Christian charity, even the purest courtesy is somewhat cold, hypocritical, hard.

Alone! You are not alone. We are keeping you close company from afar. Besides..., the holy Spirit, living in your soul in grace — God with you, — is giving a supernatural tone to all your thoughts, desires and

actions.

 we cannot survive in this paradoxical state without special help from grace and without ever-renewed self-discipline.

Tuesday 7:25 AM

 A lot happening.

There was all the rain yesterday.

There were those World Cup games.

The people I was teaching to and I was teaching English with had a rupture, overnight my time.  I learned about it this morning from one side.  Now, I have to hear the other side of the story.  I’m stuck in the middle again….

Tuesday 5:25 AM

 

We got about four inches of rain last night.  Lots of photos and videos of flooding around Brandon:

This was some flooding a block from my Mom’s house.

The basement is okay now.

Monday 4:53 PM

 Raining something heavy. Boy oh boy oh boy!  Meanwhile in Spain, they be having a heat wave.

Which do you figure is better?

Hum ma na! Hum ma na!  Hmmmmm?

Aah. Heatwave.  There’s water in the basement.

Rain! Go away!

Monday 6:12 AM

 

On a scale of one to ten how would you rate this Monday?

It’s the 180th day of 2026.  Hump Day 2026 is this week!

I didn’t sleep well last night. The room was stuffy.

I was up at 5:00 AM extending my Duolingo streak.

NGD said:  the three enemies of man are the devil, bureaucracy and technology.

Soon the bureaucracy will ban life altogether because it results in death.

Sunday 10:19 PM

 I listened to podcasts and then drifted off before reawakening and telling Siri to stop.

Sunday 19:00 Mass

 Father Oliver presided.  Apparently he is leaving to attend to other churches in South West Manitoba.

Sunday Morning outside the BSM

Not exactly scenic.

And then inside:

 I did a eight hour fund raising shift. I didn’t take my break. I raised seven times more money than I did yesterday.  Why?  I had a good spot.

Memorable moments from the shift.

1) Some young girls came up to me and said they remembered me subbing at a school.

2) I was schooled. I never knew MS and muscular dystrophy were different things. I now know they are thanks to one woman.

2) A fellow dressed in black had his bicycle stolen.  He was visibly broken up about it.  He brought the bicycle lock which had been cut to customer service.  They brought in some security to talk to him. Though he looked like the shop lifting type, his visible distress put him in a different light.  Bike thieves don’t care if their bikes get stolen.

4) A man of Russian origin, who told me he had escaped Communism, said it looked like Communism was coming to Canada.  He cited bill C-9.