Dear Team X

 

maybe you've  noticed your Morale officer  and talent scout has been M.I.A. for a while now. I apologize it seems this condition, my newest phobia has turned kinda chronic and I don't like it. It seems like dizziness is the only thing that really stuck from my high school years. It also seems to be vision related. Having more hours in a boat than 99 % of the world and never getting seasick leave it to me to be the guy getting 'land sick' from the wave action. Yesterday at low tide I walked up to the pools I like to fish and like always I watch the water (guides call that ' reading the water '....mmmm....most of them can hardly read period...butt ....) and am looking for fish, bait , swirls and of course dropped money. Well I became a little woozy, far from the feeling when I nosed dived into the Playa a month or so ago but still very uncomfortable. I walked home concentrating on  balance and watching my feet. I didn't like that and it left me with a headache. So, call me complicated which I prefer but use hypochondriac if you must cause I just can't do it....I really can't. In the morning I've been walking 3 miles and stopping to do balancing exercises along with the eye exercises my buddy Bob sent me and it's helping. SO, dear Team Xers, until I return from injured reserve remember to eat your vegetables and play well together . Keep me in your hearts please and if any of you catch that 40 pound snapper I've been wanting please feel free to photoshop me in a picture of it.....I 'd do it for you.

84.5 kilos = 185.9 pounds....When I went into the gym at 49 years old and 240 pounds that was my goal. Lately I've hovered under 200 but with more exercise, way less of the demon rum and a side order of the Flu there I am....It's a miracle. That was days ago and now I'm kinda steady at 187....I seem to be achieving that ' fit senior citizen '  look....oh boy...

Yesterday after I safely landed back here at the left side of paradise I was telling our old friends Ken and Diane about me and MP's roving  International film festival . They said it's a funny story and that I should write about it...well Di, here goes and ya know I'll also take song requests anytime.....We Love the big screen and we Love the Platino theatre with leather recliners and food and beverages....( big tip, Nachos are really messy to eat in the dark )....So being in a foreign country we find movies that are subtitled , American with Spanish subtitles and of course this helps us with our Spanish but then....well...mmm...We go see a movie named ' Sentimental Value ' , It's about a Norwegian movie producer who wants to make a movie about his own families horror in W.W. 2 at the hand of the Nazi's and he wants his  actress daughter to play his wife who hung  herself in their home after the war.  And we figured all that out without one word of the good ol English language as it was a Norwegian movie with Norwegian dialogue and Spanish subtitles. Then a week later the movie MP has been waiting for arrives. ' Rental Family ' which is about an actor who finds work in Japan as playing real life parts in a variety of ways and....you guessed it ! A Japanese movie with Japanese Language and Spanish subtitles....So I'm feeling kinda international at this point, kinda worldly don't ya know.

That's how we're eating these days as I work through this balance problem that comes and goes...you ever see a pear that comes clothed ? You can get these babies at the Ley's new Fresh Food Market in Sabalo. The particular melon is a red one but weeks ago we got one that was yellow and seedless and me and MPeasy had to agree it was the best ever. Really .

And for your musical music feature of this Mile 14 edition we have 18 seconds of the Beetles...How can ya go wrong with the Beetles ?...Fun night at the theatre.