Tuesday 29 May 2007

Today mom & dad & i took a boat trip from north palm beach out around peanut island and back. we didn't see much wildlife, except for 1 pelican, and didn't actually get multi-million dollar home of the stars pointed out like i had expected (but hadn't actually desired!), but it was still fun. here's a picture of a condominium i thought looked pretty cool. captain bob said, tho, he understands the builders of this condo face accusations of shoddy building materials. we had a good time.

before the trip we had lunch at a genuine tropical-type bar called panama hattie's. i treated mom and dad to lunch, which would have been reasonable, except that dad had a pina colada and i had a sunchaser (a drink with banana rum and banana liquor) and an earthquake (a drink that's half pina colada and half frozen strawberry margarita)--these 3 drinks cost more than $20...and i didn't even get a buzz off them! after the boat trip, mom & dad tried to pay for it with plastic (they were treating me!), but captain bob pulled out a 2-decades-old charge card imprinter (remember the machine the merchant put your card in, then ran a roller over it to capture an impression of your card's raised letters on carbonpaper-interleaved charge receipt?) but it was a shambles and he could not keep it together long enough to imprint it; then panama hatties totally modern electronic one would not work either...so i had to pay for it with my cash!

when i mentioned my "smoking section" here at the house, i meant to comment on the lizards all over the place here but forgot. there must be hundreds around my sister's house!

i mentioned last year about my mother putting out her model car collection for my amusement in the bathroom i use here. she's doing it again this year: attached is 2 pictures of the display only a few days apart, notice the cars changed! so i come by it honestly!


clearance sale! everything must go! with only a hundred or so hours of my vacation left as i write this, i'm throwing in all the leftovers! here's 2 pictures of mom and i working on her jigsaw puzzle on monday 29 may.

in the evening, after a spin around the development with mom driving her golf cart, i borrowed my father's car, much to his consternation, to drive the 2 miles to Kris' to watch the season finale of House, M.D., with her and Natalie. they are big fans of the show too, and this finale was pretty good! Nat seemed just a little better but she is still sick. i stayed for a little more vist, and a cup of tea, before getting Dad's car home around 1130p. Mom recorded veronica mars for me, on opposite house, in case it was the finale, but when i watched it later this evening, it was a repeat. i may have missed the season finale :-(

here's mom & dad in "uniform" for yesterday's civilian observation patrol.