TUESDAY AGAIN

Look at that - here it is, Tuesday again.

Ok, so check this out. This is an article that appeared recently in the Jakarta Post. (if you want to read the whole thing - go here) Is there any other country in the world that does this? Not a bad idea in fact. ......... examine the mental and physical capabilities of presidential candidates. Maybe all the Presidential (Prime Minister) hopefuls of the world should first go for a check-up before they're allowed to run. Interesting concept.

Yesterday turned into a rather busy + interesting + do what you really like (paint) kind-of-day. Managed to get myself way over to the other side of town and picked up my birthday gift from my favorite 'rock shop'. And it is totally awesome. #1. Maybe tomorrow I'll have a picture of that.

Turned out, that while I was there, so were 3 gentlemen from Sri Lanka - dressed entirely in white, sitting on the floor behind the counter, sorting though handfuls of sapphires - for resale here. WOW. Big WOW. ...... more sapphires than you can ever imagine. Lots and lots and lots of them and almost every colour you could ever want. Including a blue sapphire almost as big as an American dime. I didn't even dare ask them "how much?", but at least I got to touch it. Impressive to say the least.

TODAY: Already rolling right along. Started the morning with a South American cooking class. Yum. They truly do make the best food I think.

This afternoon - have some errands to run, some stuff to drop off and some stuff for pick up.

.......... and this just in. Its looking like the other Me is working on getting some (1 week) time off. Good deal. Good enough to get out of here, and go some place nice.

Have a good one. Good to Go!

PERFECT

PERFECT: Suns out and we have Internet.

THE PERFECT FIX: Well (?) ....... maybe, not too sure yet about that. So the internet Gods were at it again. Yesterday was a NO internet day around here. The whole day. Cut off from the rest of the world. .......... nice surprise this morning though, to see we've got it back. And possible a little faster too. Give it some time though and then we'll see about that.

THE PERFECT FIT: The drawer insert thing-am-a-gig cutlery thing is now a perfect fit. Not sure how they did that so quick, but it's a fit. They re-sized something (?) and now it fits. No more forks messing with the spoons.

THE PERFECT MATCH: The new bookshelf arrived. And a perfect match (size, colour, shape and all that other stuff) to the ones we already had. If we keep this up we'll end up with no wall space left. (I don't think you can ever have too many book shelves.) Still need to load it up with all the good junk stuff.

THE PERFECT BIRTHDAY GIFT: Ok, nothing beats picking out (designing) your own Birthday Gift - totally inspired by the other Me. (The other Me rocks!) Yes, it was in fact my birthday a number of weeks ago (maybe tomorrow I'll tell you about that). Anyways, I know it's taken me awhile, but - yesterday I finally did it. Yup, I did it. Bought 1 diamond, 2 blue sapphires, 2 emeralds and a peridot. Now I'm just waiting for them to get set. It's journey thing. Promise, I'll post a photo when I get it.

PURRR - FECT: (?) Not sure why, but lately there's a whole lot of cats thinking they should live at our house. Why is that?

TODAY: Is PERFECT and already going by fast. And I have a whole bunch of catching up on things to do.

Need to get our favorite AC fixed. Over-use is starting to take it's toll on it. Think maybe the bearings are all worn out. Have the perpetual high pitch hummmmm going on here, that you can hear everywhere in this house. Hope they can fix it - PERFECT.

Tonight is the start of 3 nights out in a row (not including last night). Tonight - girls night out. Tomorrow - a big birthday bash. And Saturday - the BIWA Food Fair event.

Perfect.

Good to Go!

FANTASTIC ITS FRIDAY!

Last photo for for Manado bunch - time to move on to something else. I'm sure you can tell - I really do like the place. This is the view we had every day from the hotel we stayed at, with the island (volcano) Manado Tua (old Manado) in the back. And there's a huge coral reef out there too - that people come to, from all over the world to see. Next week they'll be hosting the WOC (World Ocean Conference) and the Coral Triangle Summit. Good on them I think!

So I spent my yesterday hanging out with the TOURIST. The TOURIST is visiting from Australia this week. This is his first trip to this town. First trip to Indonesia in fact.

Just so you know - a tourist guide I'm not. But I tried. And now he's got a whole lot of funky, baggy, batik Balikpapan pants to take back. Even took him to the Gems Blue Sapphire shop. (No I didn't buy anything - not yet, but I'm working on that.) We pretty much did the whole circle trip around this town. And spent the afternoon back at that Crocodile Farm (seems I've been going there a lot). And last night, the TOURIST and some other folks came over for lasagna, darts and rum. Yeah, I know, a bit of a strange mix - really strange actually - but we sure had fun.

...... Blue Sapphires - as well, I do really like those too. Truth is, I just about like anything that's blue. And even though they're not my birthstone - I'm still planning on getting some.

TODAY: This morning - coffee and cake. The afternoon is an errand run, and later tonight me and the TOURIST will join up with some other folks. Time to head into the weekend. Thanks for reading. Have a good one.

Good to Go!