yo yo

bar bar bar bar barberin' 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2kOexjzY3I

that's what i say to one of my present day work colleagues every time i see him: yo yo! in the english, not the spanish

anyway on holiday now halfway through so another week and a half to go approx. of a three week holiday.......... i'll be a happy man when i retire because everytime i take a break from bus driving i feel happy

was talking to my local barber this morning, kind of dawdling around a bit and his shop was quiet until the first customer came in.... we don't really know eachother well but i had gleaned from prior encounter, not many, that his eldest son lives in colombia, and he has two kids from his second wife. Both his wives speak spanish first and he also speaks spanish as a first language. I'm happy to talk to him in spanish as i do not feel far removed from my parents' native language. he was telling me how he got traumatized after two incidents, one in mexico, the other in cuba, he said he was involved in a high altitude truck accident where the truck was blown off the side of the mountainside, possibly due to driver error and four people in the truck died. he said in cuba he was on a cargo ship carrying around 80 people and it went on fire and sank in half an hour and not everyone could get a lifeboat, people drowned all about him.

i can't speak to the veracity of that but can't understand why anyone would make that up. he said he had to get psychological counselling for the trauma of it all. that makes sense. i told him i do that kind of counselling over the phone for free as i don't have time to see a counsellor much face to face, there's a number i can call and unload however i do not do this frequently but maybe once in half a year on average if i get to feeling overwhelmed.

another colombian i met in sydney recently is working towards his master's degree in environmental science, in colombia, and is only interested to spend a year in australia working to save a little money. he is not interested to migrate here with his family or anything like that. his heart is in colombia and he's happy there with the lifestyle and society. as you can see from the two aforementioned people, colombians can work in south america and have a life there that's based on honest hard work. and feel satisfied with their lives there, excepting traumatic events in this case. that Trump can tweak his public persona a little as he has alienated a lot of the media that he could have won over and damaged what he believes to be his own interests: key areas for Trump to work on - recheck small business contractors you may have shortchanged in the past being overly ruthless and pay them back. Appreciate that not every spanish speaker from catholic hispanic backgrounds crossing a land or airport border in the u.s are scum, most of them aren't criminals and run the agriculture business in terms of fruitpicking. study up on it. 

i mention this by way of the media day to day in america on the border illegal immigration issue. those back and forths between public relations people at the white house like psaki, reporters from various news outlets, etc, often take the form of a day to day boxing match where everything is high intensity blow blow blow, day to day, caffeine rush, glorified bitching. when the journalists are allowed to actually take the time to present the facts in the larger picture, you will get the big picture, but the pro Democrat media in america is basically now an amalgamation of the Democrat party and no longer interested in reporting facts but spinning and massaging public opinion, there's always room for that to change at any point, the more you engage in adultery, the more you're going to bullshit

here in australia you can turn a little boat around faster than a big giant oil tanker like america looks like. so the media here can be kind of spinning around and around about women being abused, mysogony (plenty of not out of the closet yet unsatisfied-with-men females* in the abc and lurking amongst the news columnists), toxic masculinity, rape in the federal parliament house, sex scandals, male prostitutes, female prostitutes in the federal parliament house (seems the federal police cannot stop that), bla bla bla..... and then in a day the government can just say, ok we found this report from a year ago about not sexually harassing women so we're going to implement that.... and the whole caravan can just take a relaxing deep breath and start twiddling their toes a little in the sand..... it's a little bit ridiculous parliamentarians in canberra want to micro-manage everyone's lives and same time are stuck in a funk of salacious scandalism

talking about celebs in los angeles, with aforementioned ten day or so nissan maxima mentioned in last post, i headed out to topanga canyon one time to see the doors drummer john densmore play there and just enjoy the atmosphere, it was like a one day music festival thing.... there were probably a bunch of movie and tv actors about as two girls i was hanging out with, that described themselves as lesbians and big dawson's creek fans, seemed to indicate. i was never a dawson's creek fan however the family house i mentioned staying at with pops in the last post, is right by an elementary school called 'dawson' (i never attended there but 'bidwill' a few miles away), so 'dawson's creek' promotional commercials on tv always kind of reminded me of that school. anyway i began talking to a french canadian guy in french at that festival like inside a little building there, just because i found out immediately he could speak french and i'm always trying to hone my linguistic skills of any description as a hobby, and after we were done talking these two girls who were my temporary buddies started gushing how i had been talking to one of the main actors from dawson's creek and how they worshipped him (supposedly even though they were gay - i mean maybe he was gay too who the hell knows or cares, right?). they just couldn't get enough of the fact that we were talking because obviously they felt like they couldn't have a normal conversation with the guy (starstruck) but since he was just some random dude that can speak french, whatever, right? like i said, i never got into dawson's creek. i did watch law and order and law and order special victims unit all over the place all over the calendar in various years but seeing it yesterday after literally like decades reminded me of those phases of my life just mentioned, for some reason.....

i just finished repainting the exterior of my front door and doorstep and replacing the broken fly screen in the screen door and replacing everything and tidying it all up.... there is a bit of paint mess by the looks of it on the stonework of the front porch which will need attention, hopefully it's just chalk....

* please ladies, if your dad or stepdads or uncles or babysitters were molesting you as minors, please get counselling and stop spewing all your unfiltered hatred for men onto general society, your columns on mysogony look like graffiti, just absolute trash, everyday. Stop! Get counselling.

hoist up the john b sail, we outta here, got to study for my boating license test tomorrow, i don't know squat.... remember when Trump fired Comey calling him a show-boater, ha ha! that was funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09dQmeB_NgU