Anse Marcel, Mr. Chow
Jan. 29th, 2026 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI woke up to the AC not turning on, and it took a few minutes to realize that’s because the power was out. The power came back on a few hours later, and the water also came back on. I’m feeling better enough today that I finally understood the plumbing, and double checked with M. my understanding and she said “You’re a pro!” which of course could not be further from the truth but was very kind. I even finally understood the third valve to open so that the cistern could refill. There’s a float valve, so it won’t do anything bad. The refill valve had been turned off which it should not have been which may have been why we were getting so much sediment. I think the cistern was not mostly full when we started using it but rather mostly empty.
We went to Anse Marcel and attempted snorkeling. We both had masks and I had a snorkel but she did not. There wasn’t much to see, and I gave her the snorkel because I’d rather be on my back anyway. I stayed briefly, then returned to the apartment to read, and picked her up after lunch. It’s a beautiful beach.
We drove out to Mr. Chow Asian Bistro, which was fun. We walked from the car to the restaurant in between rain showers. It’s rained a lot, given that supposedly it wasn’t going to rain until after our trip.
I realized over dinner that she really consumes a lot of news commentary and bluesky type stuff, but doesn’t actually read that many articles or do a lot of digging down into multiple perspectives. It’s more than a little frustrating and by no means limited to her. The result is a rotating list of people to be enraged at, for reasons that upon investigation range from disproportionate to unfair / untrue. The one that rankled enough from a previous discussion was preferring Bill Gates as a billionaire to Jeff Bezos. My older sister interviewed at Microsoft very early on in their existence and her experience was profoundly negative — hearing about it as a teen was the beginning of my epic multi-decadal hatred of all things Microsoft. But ignoring that — and that working for the other guy was paying for the lifestyle we were sharing on this trip — hating someone because he had a fancy wedding and liking the other guy because his now-ex-wife ran a good-PR operation charitable thing that he rode the coat-tails of _while ignoring the Epstein connection that even charity wasn’t enough to cover up_ seems weird. What I can’t get over is her forgetting Gates contribution to the election of W.
I can really tell I’m in my late 50s. My friends are turning into people who have found Good Enough Substitutes for actually thinking about things. It’ll come for me some day. It comes for us all. I’m happy to be older. When I was young, and someone rolled out the You’ve Been Reading Propaganda accusation, I used to get mad. Now I see it for the projection that it actually is.
We did talk about some other fun stuff, tho. She’d never heard of Snow Beer, so I told her about going to Sichuan Garden and seeing it on the menu, looking it up and getting really excited, then trying it and that it was actually quite tasty.
Anyway. We got out of there without hating each other, which is great. This is the last full day of the trip.
I finally got the insurance payment through! Yay!
And I also got a ton of docusign paperwork from the solar folks for commissioning the system because we apparently got them to find my account and are now proceeding.
We went to Anse Marcel and attempted snorkeling. We both had masks and I had a snorkel but she did not. There wasn’t much to see, and I gave her the snorkel because I’d rather be on my back anyway. I stayed briefly, then returned to the apartment to read, and picked her up after lunch. It’s a beautiful beach.
We drove out to Mr. Chow Asian Bistro, which was fun. We walked from the car to the restaurant in between rain showers. It’s rained a lot, given that supposedly it wasn’t going to rain until after our trip.
I realized over dinner that she really consumes a lot of news commentary and bluesky type stuff, but doesn’t actually read that many articles or do a lot of digging down into multiple perspectives. It’s more than a little frustrating and by no means limited to her. The result is a rotating list of people to be enraged at, for reasons that upon investigation range from disproportionate to unfair / untrue. The one that rankled enough from a previous discussion was preferring Bill Gates as a billionaire to Jeff Bezos. My older sister interviewed at Microsoft very early on in their existence and her experience was profoundly negative — hearing about it as a teen was the beginning of my epic multi-decadal hatred of all things Microsoft. But ignoring that — and that working for the other guy was paying for the lifestyle we were sharing on this trip — hating someone because he had a fancy wedding and liking the other guy because his now-ex-wife ran a good-PR operation charitable thing that he rode the coat-tails of _while ignoring the Epstein connection that even charity wasn’t enough to cover up_ seems weird. What I can’t get over is her forgetting Gates contribution to the election of W.
I can really tell I’m in my late 50s. My friends are turning into people who have found Good Enough Substitutes for actually thinking about things. It’ll come for me some day. It comes for us all. I’m happy to be older. When I was young, and someone rolled out the You’ve Been Reading Propaganda accusation, I used to get mad. Now I see it for the projection that it actually is.
We did talk about some other fun stuff, tho. She’d never heard of Snow Beer, so I told her about going to Sichuan Garden and seeing it on the menu, looking it up and getting really excited, then trying it and that it was actually quite tasty.
Anyway. We got out of there without hating each other, which is great. This is the last full day of the trip.
I finally got the insurance payment through! Yay!
And I also got a ton of docusign paperwork from the solar folks for commissioning the system because we apparently got them to find my account and are now proceeding.