And what would an important holiday be without food? Started out my day with breakfast. I had planned on making my own breakfast – Avocado toast with eggs. Went to the store for eggs – but every box that I opened had at least one precracked egg. The eggs must have had a very rough ride. Figured that was a sign that I was supposed to support the local restaurant industry. And, I had the avocado for dinner.
Superbowl Sunday afternoon has to be the absolutely deadest afternoon of the entire year here. The game starts at 2PM. By 1PM the village is disserted. Even the homeless people are missing. The ocean activities are locked up tight. No cars are running. But, by 6PM, everything is back to normal. I hear cars. The luau across the street is cranking up. I smell burgers grilling.
While I watched the Superbowl and Volcom Pipe Pro surfing (surfing was better) I played around with my RTW B4 Alzheimer’s trip. I know that I could pack more into the trip, or extend it, however, I am trying to be prudent and remember that I am 75. Not 57.
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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H.L. Menchen In Defense of Women (1918)