Tubtubon Barangay Hall

 

I mentioned in an earlier blog post that part of my usual exercise routine is a morning walk - lately that walk has been to the Tubtubon Barangay hall, and back; a distance of about 2 miles.

This morning I took a few photos of the Brgy. hall which I'll be posting here. I've also uploaded these same photos to Google Maps. Unfortunately, it was a bit cloudy when the photos were taken.

 

Don Quixote

I can't exactly recall when I first tried reading Cervantes' Don Quixote. It was most likely when I was very young.....at a time when I hadn't progressed far as a reader. Perhaps early teenage or even earlier.

At any rate, I had developed a prejudice against the novel which has prevented me from taking up the novel again. This prejudice was inspite of my love and appreciation of Picasso's painting of the subject.

While my pc was in the shop, and after I had slogged thru Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, I decided to read Don Quixote. I'm glad I did.

I'm only about 35% into the novel on my Kindle, but it's a page turner.

I'm reading John Ormsby's 1885 translation which I downloaded off Project Gutenberg. It is considered the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time.

If It Ain't Broke.........

 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Fine words to live by.

The pc I use every day is far from new. I might even say that it's from the days when dinosaurs roamed the planet. It's so old that Windows Vista was brand new when I purchased the computer.

There have been several new versions of Windows since those days, but for the most part, I haven't seen the need to update to a newer OS. Like I said, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Well the time has finally come to enter the 21st Century.

About a year ago, the pc crashed. As chronicled on my other blog, the tech that got the pc up and running was able to save my files, but sadly I lost my Kindle for PC app as well as my Spotify app. At the time, I couldn't download new versions of those apps because my Vista OS was obsolete as far as Spotify and Amazon were concerned.

The problem with the Kindle app was solved by installing SumatraPDF but I've been without Spotify.

I recently took the pc back to the shop where they installed an SSD and Windows 7. The Windows 7 was a gift from a friend and I didn't have to pay for it.

I'm now back up and everything runs faster. I was able to download a workable version of the Spotify app and I'm able to listen to my music library. I'm listening to Zappa as I write this.

Michael Moore's Insane Trump Rant

On another of my blogs, I posted my thoughts on Michael Moore's recent rant on Trump having contracted COVID-19.

I wanted to link that blog post to Facebook, but that blog is still banned from Facebook. I've posted a link to that blog post here to get around that ban.

Click on.