☗ The week of the New Year ....

 ☗ this is the black shogi piece [ ?????? me too ]

... brought ?
My way of saying ' wod happened '. or the week in review

OK. Sun has been dominant fro 2 days .... das is gut ! The wind is bringing cooler air in. ' das is gut, mein frere '
[ alright what language is this !!! ]
where is Google translate !

So shogi ?

Shogi also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. ... but in English are conventionally referred to as Black and White, ...

There you go - shogi 

Well, as promised Roku is portable and allows Prime Video and Netflix while on the road.

Unfortunately, I chose Prime s the ' Northman '. Brutal and revenge themed mega. Not for the faint of heart 

Followed by Netflix s the ' Pale Blue Eye '. Edgar Allan Poe is a character in the movie but this was Poe - esque to a tee. Oh, just as brutal and revenge themed 

Oh, two beauties there

支 The Morning Squiggle

 支 

The sun rose and it is a force today. Chasing away most other elements. Good

৯ Not at Home

৯ this is the bengali 9

 thus we have a travel blog
so, how will it be differnet

the same, b/c this is people

CV 19 restrictions were briefer here

the effect was the same

' I'm in New York state of mind ' Billy Joel

I imagine that everyone passes through moods or modes

I'm mellow or more mellow

Total disarray describes our early departure. 
the tally: no cell phone, no mouse [ we both needed the mouse ]

The photo is the ' gaming ' mouse that we found at CVS, on sale
the most colourful peripheral that we 've ever seen. Multi colour outline that flashes and changes colour in a cycle.
The mouse is the entertainment.

" Sitting in a Railway Station

 ....... " Simon and Garfunkel

But we are ' sitting ' in an airport lounge. Waiting on a weather and computer delay of  70 min.

' got a ticket for my destination .....

" There are a lot of wheelchairs here " is the cry around us. Unluckily - we are one of them. Biggish airport and  'miles to go before I sleep '
or fly in this case

' I'm gonna where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain '

ҳ Coming to You Via the Internet

 ҳ the emoji produced the samll letter ' ha ' w/ the descender from the cyrillic 

No coffee. Tried to get back to sleep

if I'm typing, guess I'm awake.

Coffee. Awake ? 

Swept through the CBC online. I'll save you the angst. The sky is falling. or Fell. 

I watched a YouTune clip. A director of the NHS or the UK s medical service defended the Health Service by comparing the poor record of NHS. His tack was that the deaths were pretty much typical for Western nations.
To wit, ambulances are lining up outside hospitals for hours. No beds, no NHS staff. BTW, if you die in the ambulance, the hospital doesn't record the death. Thus, hospitals are doing much better now. Fewer deaths, you see.

Dozed off. While I wasn't looking 

Sun barely showed but sprinkles andfitsof rain did

໓ On the Second Day of 2023

 ໓ the squiggle du jour became

Dark. But coffee is done. Very good. No bitterness. Smooth

If you  made it this far. Excellente

" A shipwrecked sailor on this coast, bids you set Sail. Full many a ship weathered the gale, ere this one was lost "

unknowm author [ epitaph on a Aegean Island ]

Can you compromise

very poorly

but I should

Not much more than expected, for the weather. Except this is Oct temperature for us.

🔰 MMXXIII is here

 🔰 the Japanese symbol for beginner

The emoji couldn't be mroe appropriate. Beginning the new year, we are all beginners

Dark. Coffee. Sleepy

Why are you up [ notice that I didn't say awake ! ]

Too much on my mind

" its knowing that your door is always open
that keeps my bedroll stashed behind your couch "

the words are from ' Gentle on My Mind ' by John Hartford
{ most people think of Glen Campbell } .

Well we took the small car out for a drive to charge the battery it's not going to be used for a while so I thought better charge her up

 and had a nice lunch at a friend's house that was A.. s 

but I came home to have a beer and I'm drinking euro swill ( that's what the English call  the lagers that come from Europe). And this is Tuborg gold

Plus an update. My 'control ' program for weight management yielded 174.6 lb c.f. the original 182.4

Now, as a follower of the blog, you'll know that the next query is ....

so what ? 

The sole purpose was navigating what I ate. The two conerstones have been:
don't just grab toast [ b/c I'll make sandwich out of                                    anything ]

why are you eating ' it '

I know that re - heated carbs are best b/c the starch is converted into longer chains = less absorption

Today. Left over chips [ yes ! ] and halibut.
Soup and a biscuit w/ carrots and peppers

Important. I did not cut out beer. I bet that I average a beer a day. I figured that its no use creating a non typical diet. This ' control ' better be long term.