Hobbits & Techies Living Next to Eachothet.

 I wonder what that would be like.

Is  this analogous to the Palestinian Israeli conflict?

Some may agree with that portrayal.

I’m sure that there are hobbits on both sides of the real life conflict.

Tournament Third Day Results

Below are the third day results of Tournament 2.  The four groups play a single round robin.  The first place teams get byes into the one game sudden death quarterfinal round.  The second and third place teams play in the first playoff round for berths in the quarterfinals.  The fourth place teams avoid being relegated.  The fifth place teams have to compete in a twelve team tournament qualifying playoff in order to try to avoid relegation and gain spots in tournament 3.

Below are the matchups for the last two days of the robin round;

Tokyo?

 

Psalm 22

 

Spreading Terror! Causing Panic!

 

Is this funny?

 I think it is so hilare!

This one earned me nasty comments

 People with no sense of humor!  Geez!

I deleted that contact.  Too bad, he didn’t get to see this image:

October 3rd Views from Casa Kaulins

 

I plan to do nothing

 And the way I’ve been recently, I’ll probably do way less than that!

Godzilla!

 

World! Thank Me Very Much!

 Some people can be so annoying that you have to escape their presence.  Perhaps, I am like them.

That’s why World you should be thanking me.  For I’m keeping to myself these days and this life.

Substacking

 https://open.substack.com/pub/kaulins/p/enough-of-posting-photos-to-blogspot?r=n7azh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

What’s the matter?

 https://youtube.com/shorts/VoNGzD4pCFg?si=0b3Kp4gk0SaSZSYL

I want you happy

 

Dessert Desert

 Is it better to be in a desert dessert or by strength of will, desert dessert?

To do or Todo?

 What’s the big todo or what’s there to do?

A Commitment to Being Boring

 Next holiday, I’m going to be boring — not bored — but boring.

Old Age by Edmund Waller

 Walking up the stairs of my two floor apartment in Jiangyin, China, I feel old.  Here’s a poem about old age that comforts me.  Especially the last line.

Old Age by Edmund Waller 

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; 
So calm are we when passions are no more. 
For then we know how vain it was to boast
Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. 
Clouds of affection from our younger eyes
Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, 
Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made: 
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become 
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view 
That stand upon the threshold of the new. 

A Comforting Thought from José María Escrivá

 Todos los pecados de tu vida parece como si se pusieran de pie. —No desconfíes. —Por el contrario, llama a tu Madre Santa María, con fe y abandono de niño. Ella traerá el sosiego a tu alma.

All the sins of your life seem to rise up against you. Don't lose confidence. Rather, call on your holy Mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul. 

Nothing I can add to that.

Two More Thoughts from NGD

 —El hombre les debe con frecuencia a sus defectos los fracasos que evita.

—Man frequently owes to his defects the failures he avoids. 

I take this to mean we can avoid a lot of trouble by being imperfect.  And that earthly talent can often leads us to places where the devil hangs out.

—Lo que nos enclaustra nos ofrece la posibilidad de ennoblecernos.
Aun cuando sea un simple aguacero.
—What cloisters us gives us the chance to ennoble ourselves. 

Even when it is a simple rain shower. 

Sometimes I have this agonizing feeling that I come across as an irredeemable phony to others and so cloistered is what I should be.

A Comforting Thought from NGD

 —La inteligencia aísla; la estupidez congrega. 

—Intelligence isolates; stupidity brings together. 

There you go.  That explains my isolation.

On a Girdle by Edmund Waller

 https://youtube.com/shorts/wbBIV16WFeQ?si=uQzmt8THDZkr-j3E

WeChat Moments

The Beatles!

 

Abbey Road in Jiangyin, China

 Without the Beatles and without….

the Abbey Road!