What kind of Morning

Do you plan your morning ?

Wake up - coffee on ..... and

Well, this morning. 
Unload dishwasher *
coffee on *
laptop on*
breakfast ?  Nada 

Thus, muffins were needed. I'm getting good at muffins. Recipe in my head , except occasionally I forget how much oil. Recall , the specialty is raisin bran muffins ala moi.

Weather - cool , dampish and overcast - rain coming

Saw the preview for a possible movie for to-day ,  ' Robot and Frank '
Storyline is a techie - luddite ( No , this is not me ). needs something in his life.  Companion, helper or friend. Yepper , gets a Robbie the robot , character. Starring Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon. Sounds like something to brighten up a Sat evening - summer edition when everything on the boob tube is re-runs.

Talk about a downer , the World Weekly report w/ all the stats is about graft and corruption , in Italy and focusing on the grand barrier in Venice.
5.4 billion Euros - over budget by double. 14 arrests and 140 offices raided
4 - the times Venice has flooded since 2000 - the barrier was started    in 2003

As well , the Pew Research Centre , surveyed the perceived shift in global power , the U.S. v China.
a 63 % median favourable opinion of the U.S.  for 39 countries v 50 % for China

Favourable opinion of the U.S. 
Canada 64 % , 
Phillipines 85 % and 
11 % Pakistan

Will Obama do the right thing - 
Canada 81 % favourable
China 31 % favourable  ( 62 % in 2009 )

Well , southern audience , now you know , treat us better. You got Canada and the Phillipines on your side.

Cape Cod has new tourists flocking to the area. In 2012 , there were 20 confirmed sightings of great white sharks. Two beaches were closed this year , after shark sightings. 34 great whites carry tracking tags and the migration pattern is now defined. Out to sea for winter and back to Kennesbunkport for the summer. Yippee and does ' Oops ' cover this ?
The big attraction is seals. In 1972 , to protect seals etc , the U.S. passed the Marine Mammal Act to prevent the slaughter of seals.
Success , 2011 , 16 000 grey seals c.f. 6 000 in 1999. Shark education seems to be high on the agenda in Cape Cod. Don't swim w/ the seals. Really.
An advocacy group for sharks maintains ' if sharks wanted to eat humans we would have a lot more attacks , occasionally , a shark makes a mistake '  Is this an .... Oops ? ....... 

Shark 1 : " Human ? didn't mean that one , shucks , guys blew one ,  sorry. I spit him out, quick. "

Shark 2: They're sending Richard Dreyfuss and that Scheider dude.