Dreams

1. Juan M was singing a song in Spanish. When he finished, Carolina M started singing a song by Emilio Ruiz. It sounded really good, so I looked up the guy. In this one video, Emilio entered the stage bare ass naked save for some very small short and translucent cape and a cloth draping in front of his crotch. When he reached center stage, he turned around and he mooned the crowd to a standing ovation. He had a funny face and he kept on shaking his head side to side.
2. We were playing game similar to Carcassonne in which the tiles had food and pet related items and the layout was terraced instead of flat.
3. Vague recollection of something involving trains and issue with tickets.

Nice 5km walk this morning

This morning, pup and I did a 5 km loop in 100 minutes that included a 800-m lake shore leg from Morrison Crescent to the 265-ft lake frontage 2.4 acres $3.7M (was $4.7M) land only property at 163 Lake St for sale for about one year (and which had recent clearing and a 12-ft wide graded path done at the West end for smoother lake access as most of the property has a 20+ ft steep drop-off at the shore and which is sold together with $2.95M 165 Lake St 4BR 4BA 300+m2 house on 0.8 acres). This was the longest walk we did so far along the lake shore in Grimsby.

5-km walk

163 Lake St ramp

163 Lake clearing

163 Lake erosion

The Expanse: deep thoughts about end of life

Out of the mouths of babes (Bobbie@The Expanse/S05E04): "Rats only live a few years. In the wild, it's rare that they die of old age, and when they do, they go out hard. Lots of tumors, usually."

For some reason, this blurb resonated with me, making me think of the current US situation, and then more generally of life in general, or empires in particular. Also, an image of a spin top also came to mind: at first it spins very smoothly, then it gets wobblier and wobblier until it quickly gets chaotic and stops. A 2d image would be a sinusoidal wave that is quite regular at first but it gets more chaotic in time with wilder and wilder swings.

Normal democracy

This is how a country's leader gets to work in a normal Western country:

Birds of paradise

We just watched a Netflix doc about birds of paradise called Dancing with the birds. It's brilliant, especially the last bird, Bob, a Corola. There is a 4' clip on youtube that shows what these birds can do. The choreography, the color display, the control, simply amazing.