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My sister and her family are in Da Nang, Vietnam right now sending pics and video of the imposing and colorful dancing dragons and dancers. It’s one of the many beautifully choreographed shows they put on for the tourists and locals. 🐲🐉

This orange Dodge Charger painted like the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard 80s TV show was on the 91 freeway near Compton a couple days ago. Barely got a pic of it as it was racing by - shown here. It was one of the first TV shows I watched (that and the Incredible Hulk) so seeing a version of that iconic car actually driving on the freeway brought me back to simpler times, an unexpected catharsis as I reminisced of happy and carefree moments from my youth. 😄 https://www.instagram.com/p/DZZqb7GEpXR/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Of my varied and disparate fruitings, there are those who are content and serene as evidenced from the attached snapshot of my fruitling valley farm. There are those who are aloof and only come out at night. There are those who hide behind the leaves of others. There are those who are studious and wear branch-colored glasses with which they can better perceive the world around them. Then there are those who choose to bang their heads against the nearest hard object repeatedly. For those last lot, it is a ponderous endeavor to be sure yet to each their own. 🍑🍈

We’ve made amazing home-cooked meals for my 11 yo daughter. Brought her to any number of fancy restaurants of various types of cuisine. American, Thai, Chinese, Mediterranean, Indian, Italian, Korean, German, Vietnamese, Mexican, French, Cuban, Japanese, Filipino, and the list goes on and on. No matter what Michelin-level meal we put in front of her, she will only eat: 1) chicken nuggets 2) cheese only pizza 3) plain hamburger with only meat and bread (there can be no pepper, no salt, no seasoning of any kind on the meat) We’re slow cooking chicken this evening in a crockpot. It’s been going for a few hours and should be succulent and fall apart melt-in-your-mouth yumminess. Yet, it holds no sway over my 11 yo. This and no other foods/meals will satisfy her and she’s totally implacable in this regard. No Iron Chef meal will entice her save those 3 listed items above. It’s endlessly frustrating and we REALLY hope her palate will mature one of these days. 🙄

🕹️ Come play Sushi Bar on Remix! With a little luck and a hankering for good sushi, I was fortunate enough to be first and only on the leaderboard! 🥳😄

In Torrance, CA, there’s a ramen restaurant called, Ko Ryu Ramen. They’ve got traditional ramen, specialty ramen, made-to-order, spicy levels up to 10 🌶️ and if you can win the Ko Ryu Spicy Challenge, your ramen is free. Also, if you win, they take your pic and paste it on the wall in the restaurant. There are rows and rows of pics of brave souls who won - not me though - waay too spicy.🥵 It draw crowds to be sure and when the food is great, customers are happy whether they win or not. Such charitable companies know that practicing generous benevolence is just good for business. On the walls that don’t yet have pics of the winners, they have engaging ramen artwork. 🍜

In 2002, Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, and Catherine Zeta-Jones starred in a movie called, Chicago. It was based on the 1975 musical of the same name. The movie received 6 Oscars and has been widely regarded as the best screen adaption of a musical. If you enjoy musicals and plays, Chicago is a joy to watch from beginning to end. It has a lot of adult content so might be best not to introduce your kids to it until they’re of age. Razzle Dazzle is one of the many outstanding performances included here for your enjoyment. 😊 https://youtu.be/8ZYG2PCyNfE?is=73BCFbPqc8_M49bA

Is she going to the same high school? If she is, it’s another thing to mentally prepare him for @eirrann.eth It can be a socially dividing issue or an opportunity for both of them. If they can adjust and become some level of platonic friends, that social maturation might just set them both on really healthy social paths in their lives going forward. If a romantic relationship doesn’t work out, the relationship doesn’t have to end in some tragic tornado where they throw barbs at each other that never heal. It can end with some semblance of a healthy friendship intact. If the only way a person can end a romantic relationship is to tear the other person apart so-to-speak, that tends to perpetuate the same unhealthy cycle in future relationships. It might be too much to ask of one so young, but it’s worth having the conversation.

Framedl PRO 2026-08-07 3/6* A lawyer once told me that he would not OPINE on the veracity of the claim that property owned abroad would be covered under a will if the owner passed away. In the very next sentence, he said that if I scheduled an appt with him at his going rate ($650/hr), he would be able to answer all my questions about probate and wills as it relates to international law and how his law firm would be able to represent my interests at the US embassy and the foreign agencies involved. 🤨

On satisfying home repairs: In my mom’s old one-story house, there’s this crawlspace under the roof. It’s not even really a crawlspace because that implies there’s enough space to get on your hands and knees. If you’re dexterous enough, you can wriggle, like a caterpillar, across the horizontal wood beams to get to where you want to do home repairs, etc. You’ve got to mostly lie prone as there are diagonal braces and trusses all over. Between those horizontal wooden beams is the drywall which is the ceiling of the rooms below so one false move or knee in the wrong place and you’ve just made a dent or hole in the ceiling of one of the rooms below. My brother & I spent hours installing wire mesh covering small holes to the house exterior. A staple gun, bunch of chicken wire, and blood, sweat, and tears did the job. Some outfit quoted us $1200 for parts and labor. After 3+ hours, we were able to extricate ourselves from that claustrophobia-inducing crawlspace and from the $1200 bill. 😎