Pink Panther

The return of the Pink Panther


One remarkable figure has returned to the pool today.
Or at least, this when I saw and spoke with him.

He is a complicated, intelligent , entrepreneurial, driven man.
We have been talking over the past years quite a few times.
The debut was not promising however.

At the sauna, there are some rules and I told him that he is not supposed to bring the slippers inside.
He replied...

My slippers are cleaner than your feet.

Then, seeing as we use the same facilities and after many months have passed since that rather abusive, first encounter, we talked about America, Israel, Trump, Bibi and other things.
This Pink Panther is a supporter of Trump and Bibi, he lives in this country, albeit he is Israeli and he has an online casino business...or a few.

He used a very strange, but effective diet, seemingly losing twenty kilos or more.
Nonetheless, eating a lot of fat, meat and eggs, doesn't look like the healthiest choice.
Cholesterol?

He says it's no problem.

A few months ago, he had a fight with some other guy, in the locker room.
The Pink Panther was in the habit of using the speaker of his phone to listen to the music.

Trouble is, the others had to hear it too.
I wasn't there in the beginning, but I arrived in the course of the clash.

Apparently, this other male was not particularly enthusiastic about the music and said something to the effect of stop it.
Pink Panther is rather big, if not massive and he took it badly.

The other was no small man either and they pushed each other around.
s for the language...

'I will take you out and fuck you in the ass
You pig...and much more'

I could not hear the local martial arts fighter, for he was further away, but the panther was really colorful and magnanimous with expletives.

The scandal got so heated that first the security agent came down and then the manager of the club.
When I saw the panther disappear for months, I thought he was banned from this place and possibly told to use his membership in the network, but at other locations.

Well, he is back.
If there was a penalty, that has evidently expired.



Look Back in Anger...


That's a famous title, but there's no reason to do that.

Reminiscing can and should be a wonderful chance to enjoy the past and not lament over what would have been the scenario if we became rich with the cable operation brought in from Wallonia...

I must look at the place where I interrupted the story, perhaps one year ago and then continue and finish the damn thing.

Which could be done in a few sentences...which could be for the best.
It was enjoyable and tumultuous, ending with our trip to Bastogne, although it was probably the Miss World contest in Vegas that has done irreparable harm.

In fact, we could go further back, to the moment when I slapped her face, following the visit to the Bulgarian rascal and her line...

I'm here with my assistant...that was me

But when heard, this vicious insult made me think...

Why, you bitch, that's what I am to you? The fucking assistant...at least of you paid me, but I am spending everything I have...

Dollars, time and my feelings on you and then you just play the fool, easy to get for that scoundrel, so that he could think you're available, he can fuck you...

Maybe this is what she has always wanted, dudes with money
It wasn't her mother and the vilification of the parent was just some way to deflect the blame from the real culprit.

No mother could have made her marry that other interloper, the hideous fuck who stole money from old people's homes - this is made up, I mean I have no idea where he stole his fortune from, but I sure think he couldn't care less,  he would take all he could from wherever it would be possible


Conan and the Japanese family


I have seen yesterday some episodes with Conan O'Brian.

The Americans have a stupid president, demented, insisting he has never heard of a category five hurricane ...again and again and again.

He uses sharpies to modify maps and then pretend one of the twelve thousand false things he has said in the last couple of years is in fact true.
Talks about Tim Apple, then claims he said it right, and then he claims he just wanted to save time...

This is already a competition in terms of how low this would descend.
And yet, eighty percent of republican voters still support him.

Ten of millions of mentally challenged people.

On the other hand, they have Conan and other brilliant minds.

The video where he rents a Japanese family is hilarious at times.



The Young and the Restless


This was the title of a long, eternal series...if I remember well
A soap opera that had enough episodes to last for years on end.

Maybe ten thousand

I was think of another young and restless,  someone who claims to pocket over seven thousand euros, over a weekend of training.

Wow!

Would that be true?
I was mentioning the old project of making the people of this country happier...

Positive psychology has identified rules, ways to become happier.

Ergo, we only need to popularize them and we get...

Nirvana, heaven on earth.

Funds from the EU or elsewhere would ensure the activity of an NGO which would bring the desired paradise.
And I said...

You may get seven thousand euros per month, as the CEO of an outfit like that, successful, solving the main problem of the people.

Aristotle said that happiness is the ultimate goal.
If we're happy, we have it all.
If we're not, we keep looking until we get there...

He didn't use these words, but the main idea is correct.

Alas, we have no CEO, for this one answered...

I'm getting that over one weekend, so I'm not interested...



Rituals


Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar talks about rituals, among so many other exceptional themes, in his positive psychology lectures, that you can find online...

The idea is to create habits that make you happy and ultimately contribute to a meaningful, jubilant life...
Insh'Allah

One of the crucial rituals would be exercise.
Run, swim, cycle on a regular basis.

Experts say that you need physical exercise at least three times a week, I forgot for how many hours.
I do that daily, with the exception of Modays, when I stay with the boys in the garden, wheather permitting, or in the house.

For all the other days, it is cycling for about one hour twenty minutes, on the way to and back from the pool, again, if it doesn't rain or snow.
A rather fast swim of half an hour is also part of the daily schedule, Tuesday through Sunday.

The result would be terrific, if only I would push the plate too in the process.



Criticism


John Gottman is the genius author of The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work.

He is the ultimate expert in the field.
His accuracy rate in predicting which couple will stay together and which will separate is over ninety percent!

He identified The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
Criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling.

Earlier today, I have had another dose of contempt and criticism.
I was talking, well trying to talk about falafel...

I have bought two sandwiches and mentioned to the always contemptuous spouse that I may have one, or she could take both and then I order pizza...

I took care, as always, to ask...

Do you hear me?
She said she did, but with the eyes in the phone...again, as always!!

In a few minutes, surprise:

She has no idea about the issue...and says no two falafels for her

Look, I just asked you, but you were not listening...and you do that all the time!

This is were I get mad, for she starts on how I never make sense, mumble, talk this and then move to the other...making it impossible for others to follow...and on and on.

Actually, it might be true.
Hell, yes, it is...to a degree anyway.

But why the fuck is it right for you to just stay away and never pay any attention?
What about that?

That's not decent!
It is despicable

What if I just have something worthwhile to say today?
Never had something interesting, but maybe this is the day!




Friday


Friday afternoon, in the garden with the boys.

Some weeks from now, we might have to stay indoors.
The boys, Balzac and Puccini are not adapted to extreme weather.
They belong to the tropical forests, if we have any left, with the likes of Trump, Bolsanaro and other fools in control.

There would be some nostalgia, but not much.
Right now, not far from here, some men use a jackhammer or something to demolish somewhere.
Then, a few meters away, the gipsy minority has some manele or other lamentable music aka noise and the result is you wish you stay indoors...

Fuck the nice weather, the sun.
Jackhammer and manele would just blow my mind away, even if this looks like Eden otherwise...without the intrusion.

But hey, there's no God!
No heaven

Just this ship of fools.
Adding to the confusion, I have made my phone play some of 'my' music

And now it is Sinatra, the friend of the Mafiosi, with his My Way


I did it my way...


Mountains


Sometimes I think that we could take Balzac and the rest of the circus to the mountains.
Or maybe the sea.

They have traveled there once, staying with the tent near the sea.
But I don't think it was the most fantastic experience.

I hear it was fine.
Surely, there we many great moments, but coupled with restrictions, privations and adversity.

So this trip to the mountains is more in the domain of let's think about it for some time and then see that it's not feasible.
Yes, we could attach a leach and then. Walk the woods with two macaws.

One of which is crazy.
The other is serene and wonderful.

But Balzac is like wild.
He has escaped a few times in this gated community and he would not climb down, the rogue.

So that would be a challenge, to walk up in Predeal with the two Jubilant creatures.

Next summer maybe