NOV 25, 18 .. HAPPINESS IS ..

Sunday, the 25th of November 2018. The final day of my fourth week here in Irkutsk, Russian Siberia. My next milepost on this trip will be this upcoming Thursday the 29th which will complete my first full month of living here. I have now lived here in Irkutsk, Russian Siberia, for one month of my life.

No no, they can’t take that away from me!

HAPPINESS IS :

Sharing the following fun (at least for Patti and I) experience with you.

This afternoon a bothersome snow flurry blew through (at least my area of) Irkutsk. It was accompanied by one of those winds (I could watch it almost constantly changing directions from my windows) that blows from right-to-left, then left-to-right, then swirls.

Don’t ask me, “Captain, why was it bothersome to you?” I can’t tell you. Maybe because I needed to go outside and didn’t particularly want to be-out-in-it. But out-into-it-I went to take some trash out and to go to the small convenience store right here in my building. I can be at the small store in 92-paces (I actually counted them, going and returning) and that is from my building’s exterior entrance door to the door of the convenience store. I told Patti I was going out. I texted Patti immediately when I returned S&S (Safe and Sound). Within a few minutes the snow flurries worsened and I was happy that I’d seized-the-moment and completed my outing.

Then I texted Patti the following :

“Hi My Dear One. Man Oh Manischewitz!! It’s really snowing. Man Oh Manischewitz!! I’m happy to be nested IN!! NRN. Frm Russia w Love. Cap 10.11pm in AK Nov 24.”

We have our texting codes : PRMe means I want Patti to Please Ring Me. NRN means No Reply Necessary.

Then I took a long, oh-so-very-sweet, nap of well over an hour.

Then we talked and here is the fun part :

Patti said, “We have gotten a bit of your snow storm here in Alaska. The news showed it was originating in Russian Siberia.”

And why not? The weather often goes from West to East which is the direction (I believe) of the atmospheric Polar Jet Stream.

How fun that we two experienced the same weather system. Me at its origin. Patti on its route East.

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Onward to :

My cell phone #2 saga.

Yesterday in my Post about My cell phone #2 saga I concluded with :

I was told that, “By next Tuesday the 27th it will be resolved.”

More to follow when, and IF, this gets resolved.

HAPPINESS IS :

Early this afternoon my cell phone #2 erupted with a slew of (in Russian and totally un-readable to me) messages from Tele2 its cell phone carrier.

I thought : “Hum-m-m, I wonder. I think I’ll check his balance.”

I did. Each and every single Russian Ruble that I paid to re-charge cell phone #2 is now available to me. And I did not have to wait until next Tuesday.

“Good On Ya Tele2.”

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When I moved into my new apartment here, in a corner, abandoned, was a totally distraught drawer that once was part of a small night stand. Its front was disconnected from its other three sides. These three sides were bent at odd angles. Its bottom was just sitting in the mess that used to be a drawer.

Little sad drawer said to me, “Welcome to our digs Captain. I’m so sorry I can’t greet you. I’m mortally wounded. I heard you were here.”

Out came my Titebond Glue. Out came some screws. Out came my drill bits and my pin-vises. Yesterday while out-with Mike, getting a wet mop and a door mat (Dad! I’m a bathroom floor mat!) and corn flakes and jam and going to the library and going to a 7pm meeting, I found and purchased a drawer pull for him.

HAPPINESS IS :

Sad, mortally-wounded, trashed little drawer is oh-so-very-happy!

This, like many of my projects, turned out to be a bit-of-a-task but I persevered. We are both very, VERY, happy.

TO FEEL GOOD, DO GOOD!

Yes, even helping a sad, inanimate object such as the above wooden drawer made ME feel oh-so-good!

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Before I forget to mention it, I have just published a Post on blogspot ..

https://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2018/11/nov-25-18-papa-johns-pizza-here-in.html

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Some enormous news is on-the-horizon and is about to become reality.

Mike and I have been invited to carry-the-message to Kyzyl where there is no program. No literature. No members. No meetings. Nothing. One lady that Mike knows wants to know more.

Kyzyl, population 110,000, is the Capital City of the Tuva Republic, in the Russian Federation. There are two flights per week from Irkutsk to Kyzyl. There also is the train and then an 8-hour bus ride. I MUCH prefer to fly.

More to follow on this.

I really feel that I am exactly where I am supposed to be, doing what I am supposed to be doing, at least at this stage of my life!

Smiles .. Cap

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