Monday Monday
This morning we mounted another mini-van bus to Zihuatanejo to pick up a few more needed things at the local Sam's Club. It seemed worth a go but it wasn't really. The product quantities are huge. Is it a bottle of salad oil you'd like? Well, here are two 25 gallon drums, attached together, complete with burro to carry it home for you.
We did find some needed items in civilized quantities so the trip was not in vain, despite appearing possible when the cashier encountered relentless difficulties getting our membership card accepted by Sam's uncooperative electronic system. Neither did prospects look good as we approached the exit. Instead of a cheerful clerk cavalierly dashing a check mark on our receipt, a frowning, burly woman confronted us and rifled through every item in our carriage as though my face had once appeared on a wanted poster.
After returning we set ourselves up by the pool to do some reading. By the way, for those who have requested a photo of the pool here, I am pleased to provide one ...
One book I am reading is about Quantum Physics and this afternoon I learned that if you take two cans of soup, one frozen and one not, and roll them down an inclined panel of plywood simultaneously, the unfrozen one will reach the bottom ahead of the frozen one. The reason is that no energy is lost rotating the unfrozen soup since it doesn't rotate, just the can does. And you thought Quantum Physics was about deep stuff, huh?
While at the pool we were spotted by a sister who invited us to join a group of about a dozen other Witnesses gathered at the opposite end of the property, some from Canada, others from the USA, all with a long spiritual history. One couple, recently retired, are planning to move here. The many Witnesses staying in this complex make for very enjoyable association.
Our day ended with Carol and I watching the sunset from our balcony. The photo below shows only one celestial body in the entire sky. A cell phone app I have indicated it was the planet Venus.
We did find some needed items in civilized quantities so the trip was not in vain, despite appearing possible when the cashier encountered relentless difficulties getting our membership card accepted by Sam's uncooperative electronic system. Neither did prospects look good as we approached the exit. Instead of a cheerful clerk cavalierly dashing a check mark on our receipt, a frowning, burly woman confronted us and rifled through every item in our carriage as though my face had once appeared on a wanted poster.
After returning we set ourselves up by the pool to do some reading. By the way, for those who have requested a photo of the pool here, I am pleased to provide one ...
One book I am reading is about Quantum Physics and this afternoon I learned that if you take two cans of soup, one frozen and one not, and roll them down an inclined panel of plywood simultaneously, the unfrozen one will reach the bottom ahead of the frozen one. The reason is that no energy is lost rotating the unfrozen soup since it doesn't rotate, just the can does. And you thought Quantum Physics was about deep stuff, huh?
While at the pool we were spotted by a sister who invited us to join a group of about a dozen other Witnesses gathered at the opposite end of the property, some from Canada, others from the USA, all with a long spiritual history. One couple, recently retired, are planning to move here. The many Witnesses staying in this complex make for very enjoyable association.
Our day ended with Carol and I watching the sunset from our balcony. The photo below shows only one celestial body in the entire sky. A cell phone app I have indicated it was the planet Venus.
Yes, it's that tiny tiny white dot in the upper
right corner. Without that app I would
have never known. :-)
On a side note, never freeze your cans of soup.
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