Month: September 2024

I was on my daily walk today to the local waterfront park. I entrance I take to the park allows me to get into the park via an elevated walkway that passes over the children’s playground in the park.

As I walking over the playground area, I saw a flash of movement. When I looked down, I saw a small, tiny human rolling down the bank of a sloped portion of the playground. From the top of this hill to the bottom was about six feet at least, probably seven feet, and it was fairly steep incline. This tiny baby was not in control of their body and should not have been rolling down this large hill. I was shocked to see this. It was so bad that a man who was having lunch near the bottom of the hill rushed over to pick the baby up.

When he did so, I could see this child was probably not even a year old. I can remember when my niece was one and she was bigger than this baby. If I had to guess, the kid was about eight months old. At the top of the hill was this older man, who was scrambling to get down the hill. He made it down to take the baby from the kind man and at the same time, an older lady had made her way over to the baby as well.

It was clear these two older folks were the grandparents of this unfortunate baby. The grandfather had somehow lost control of his grandkid and allowed it to roll down the hill. By this time, the child was crying but not too badly. The grandparents quickly made their way out of the area, with crying baby.

I try not to judge parents and grandparents because kids are tricky but watching this man lose control of his grandkid, a mere baby, and have it roll down a large hill was crazy. I am sure the child is fine now but I wonder if he told the parents later today.

My building needs to shut off all water next week for one day, from 8am to 5pm. They are doing this to enable some repairs of the plumbing system. They have done this before, when I was also working from home.

Not having water all day while you work from home means you need to plan out your day. I guess it makes sense to do attempt to do all the water-related things for the day before it’s shut off in the morning. That means brushing your teeth, pooping, showering, and so forth. The problem is I don’t get up until around 10am on most workdays.

If I poop while the water is shut off, I can time it so that there’s gonna be enough water in the tank for one full flush. After that, there’s gonna be nothing. If I just pee for the rest of the day, that should be fine. If my body decides it needs to poop again, well that poop is gonna sit in the bowl all day until 5pm.

For drinking water, I have a hot water dispenser, so that will last me all day and then some. Beyond that, I don’t need to do my dishes during the day. Washing my hands though will be a problem. As I mentioned, I’ll get one full flush after a poop, but what about my poopy hands? I have wet wipes that I can use or perhaps I can fill a jug of water the night before and use that as my cleansing water.

It’ll be a hassle next week but I’ll adapt and survive.

A local pub that had been in business for decades closed a few months ago and an Italian restaurant popped up in its place. It’s in a prime location, by the water, with a huge patio area. I had to try it since I love Italian food. I picked a sunny weekday afternoon to have some lunch.

On that particular day, I wanted to try out their “seafood bowl”. It turned out to be pretty good but I didn’t think it was worth $28. While the broth was delicious, there wasn’t enough seafood, in my opinion, to warrant the $28 price tag.

Anyways, when I got the bill, I noticed the very unfortunate spelling mistake that was programmed into the point of sale computer. I pointed it out to the waiter but he said the staff were well aware of the issue. He further divulged that it was misspelled like that in the actual menu for about a week. How terrible. No menu should ever have that word in it.

I think I’ll go back just to try some of their other items but I’m wary of the prices.