now you see it

We've a white day out there this morning, white sky reflected in the white Bay, a continual broken only by the black strip of Shell "Island" across the way; "Island" because it's no longer an island, the Old Pass is filled in and it's Shell "Point" now. I'd snap a picture but for the scaffolding clinging to the building from ground to roofline. So I'll go elsewhere with this blogpost 

Dizzy, still dizzy, still and always dizzy, and I use the cuff blood pressure machine to help me understand why so I can correct it. Unlike yesterday, not the BP this morning, which is 111/68 at the moment, but the 37 pulse is this morning's culprit: not sure what to do about that except maybe run down the stairwell to level 3 and run back up to level 7 and collapse back into bed, which seems unhelpful so I won't. Just had First Breakfast of baked beans quarter cup mix of three or four types and handful of pills, all with glass of first cold now cool water in my Best Dad Ever glass from Father's Day back in June.

If I admit it myself, I think I've been a decent dad these 61 years and 2 months, doting dad and papa.

And the ice: unintentionally while trying to get it to start making ice after these ten months, I broke the ice maker in our refrigerator and currently don't wish to be bothered getting someone out here to repair or replace it; what with both unpacking and trying to keep 7H tolerably uncluttered, there's enough to face for weeks to come, so a bag of ice cubes from Publix and it'll last a long time.

Yesterday's word.a.day from Anu Garg was pareidolia (per-eye-DOH-lee-uh) a noun meaning the tendency to see a specific pattern or meaningful images in random stimulus. In tongue-in-cheek notes Anu goes on "It’s human nature to see patterns where there might be none. If you have ever seen an elephant in the clouds, you have experienced pareidolia. Pareidolia is also responsible for constellations appearing in the shape of animals (Ursa major, Leo, etc.), profiles of men appearing on rock faces, Rorschach inkblot tests, UFO sightings, and Jesus on toast. While toast appears to be his favorite, he has also appeared on tortillas, chapatis, and potato chips. But you don’t have be at the mercy of random patterns and their whims. Command pareidolia with Grilled Cheesus Sandwich Press, or, even better, have your own face appear on toast, no random numbers required." 

And his art with it (top) was a no brainer. At first glance it was a basketball player (there's a hoop high in the back) who'd just bumped his opponent, accidentally knocking him down, seizing the ball and heading for the hoop. But on further looking (which is not the idea of Rorhschach) I see what it really is: the tall guy has shot the other guy, now is putting his gun back in his pocket and walking away; the victim is face down on the ground, his left arm stretched out this way, one of his shoes lying there near his right knee; obviously a bad neighborhood, seeing there's a lot of trash and garbage on the ground. Seriously I don't want a psychiatrist unsealing my true Being from this little exercise in pareidolia, there's a lot up there that even I probably don't want to know.

Second Breakfast, half a cup of mixed berries

RSF&PTL

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