I have spent a couple or more hours composing a post for my private blog, and as a result of the time lost, I figured that I would not create a post in this blog.
However, I remembered that Google Photos created a collage from some photos that were taken exactly five years ago on this date, so I feel obliged to create a post to showcase the collage and its original photos.
First, though, I want to post the photo I took yesterday (my 70th birthday) of the gifts my younger brother had gotten for me. The booze is a 40-ounce bottle of rum, and I believe that the two lottery scratch tickets cost $5 apiece ─ both are as yet unscratched:
The Sun was shining brilliantly through the living room window directly behind me, so the items I photographed all suffered from the glare.
The interior of the birthday card was printed with:
Wow, you'll believe anything!Happy BirthdayOLD-TIMER
And my brother added:
HAPPY "70"MANY MORE, LOVE MARK
And now here is the Google Photos' collage that Google automatically created today:
I rather suspect that the original photos were taken right around the midnight hour of October 11 / 12 of 2014, for my wife had taken me to her friend's home in Langley to share a birthday celebration with her friend's husband ─ he also was born on October 11, but is many years younger than I am.
The birthday cake was a farcical work ─ it was designed as the busty torso of a lingerie-clad female.
Anyway, here are the original photos, beginning with the left column ─ note that the central lady in these first two photos has a birthday a mere day or two from that of the male host and I:
And now the second column ─ I am at the far right in the first photo, and the other birthday boy is immediately next to me and wearing the white shirt:
That is the cake just above.
There are always so many beautiful Thai and Lao gals at these events, and the festivities can get markedly wild.
There are always so many beautiful Thai and Lao gals at these events, and the festivities can get markedly wild.
Oddly, I don't notice my wife in any of those photos above.
Anyway, I had no such celebration this year, although my wife helped celebrate the birthday of the woman whom I pointed out in the first two photos.
My birthday turned out to be extremely distressing and depressing for a long while last evening, but this is not the time for me to write of it.
By the way, I took advantage of advance voting this morning and voted in the Canadian federal election.
The Queen Elizabeth Secondary School gymnasium where I voted was populated mainly with volunteers ─ I doubt that there were as many as five other voters present.
The outing gave me a round trip hike of possibly two miles in total ─ I think that it was just after 9:00 a.m. when I left here.
My younger brother followed suit (he drove, though) in the early afternoon and met with a fair line-up that he complained about after he was home again.
Gosh, I sure don't feel 70. In so many ways, I still feel inside like I'm in my 20s, but somehow housed in an ageing body.
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