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Ah, 240p Memories ... Where Are They Now?

Team USA Mens Foil, takes gold and named world champions! Go team USA! Oh, our Airbnb turns out to be nice than the website pictures.

That is me totally physically trashed. In a moment of madness I decided to do a run I last did about 15 years ago - 15 miles of cross country with three chunky hills in it. I really haven't done anything like that for three years (when I did the Yorkshire 3 peaks) so I was working on base fitness from the gym, and physical memory of doing that sort of thing. I did 3h45m - and back in the day, when I was doing a lot more running and quite a bit younger I got it down to 2h30m. Anyway I'm not unhappy at age 63 that I can still cut the mustard to some extent. It was made a bit more tricky that it started at 75F and finished at 83F. And made even more tricky that copious and corrosive sweat gave me an heroic dose of runner's crotch. When Carole saw it she said "how on earth did you continue with that". Well basically I had to - I had to get back to the car! But last night I was walking around as if I'd just got off a horse. A lot better today, but I'm pretty physically tired. Definitely not looking for sympathy (as if! This is head-case!)! It's after all my own fault

It's been done, and better.

Graham Nash in concert tonight in Oxford. Bloody awesome. His voice is still unchanged even though he is now 77! He even did some numbers that he wrote when he was with the Hollies in the early 60's. https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/an-intimate-evening-of-songs-and-stories-with-graham-nash/new-theatre-oxford/ Oddly enough we're going to precisely those places in a month. Our daughter and her husband are in Milan from Australia for a wedding, and we're meeting up with them for a few days, driving with them to Lake Garda.

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." RIP Rutger

RIP Rutger Hauer. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49098435

Not sure how the current one would stand up to the shock and impacts from polo. The 1931 is my favorite version of it. Pure simplicity.

Italian usual breakfast. The coffee hear beats anything I've had in Cali by a long shot.

Bob Lutz’s quote “looks like an angry kitchen appliance” on the Pontiac Aztec comes to mind.

I have to admit Sam I’ve changed from/to a few different watches over the last few years, but once I have that Reverso I won’t be selling it or the Saxonia for any other watches. When needed I’ll be having both serviced, and probably new Alligator straps, but I’m keeping them both.?

Vermillion Lake in Banff NP, Canada. Click for sightly larger. "Ocean's Forest" The imperial Beach Pier.

Tyler was ahead of the curve!

Elder, Gold & Silver Sessions

Miaugnum PI Lake Trillium, Oregon.

Yesterday, Yumi and I rented a jet ski at lake Conroe! It was awesome. So now I want to get one. Thinking of Sea-Doo GTX or RTX 230. I think we’ll even be able to fit it in the toy hauler to take with us camping (if we on a lake or ocean).

Packing for trip to Milan with Mary tomorrow. Google says the weather will average in the 38s so packing is easy, shorts tee shirts and dressy speedo. Our friends know a couple of winery and restaurant owners in the Amarone and Guarda Lake areas so I guess we will be drinking a little wine and eating small meals.

I see boobies.

RIP Johnny Clegg, the "white Zulu". Very influential musical and political figure in South Africa's transition from Apartheid and just a great guy. Fuck cancer! Of course this would all be condemned out of hand as cultural appropriation now because modern woke thought is fucking rubbish, but back in the dark days growing up it was super transgressive and hugely inspiring.

Decided to ask my local metal engineer if he’d do stainless steel handles to my liking for my two safety razors and the Gillette fusion, which he did. So because I enjoy posting photos, here’s how they look. ? Although both safety razors look alike, one handle is thicker than the other and the head on one is higher for a closer shave.

I’ll place this under “another.” Bye Slug Bug.