{"id":26388,"date":"2022-09-19T04:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=26388"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:03:07","slug":"sep-19-22-what-fun-you-wouldnt-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=26388","title":{"rendered":"SEP 19, 22 .. WHAT FUN YOU WOULDN&#8217;T BELIEVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When I myself don&#8217;t know for sure what is coming down-the-pike here I can&#8217;t expect any of you to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Are all of you sitting down? I don&#8217;t want anyone to fall over and hurt themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I began to write this post on <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>July the 16th 2017<\/em><\/span> (you heard me, July 16th of year <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>twenty seventeen<\/em><\/span>) and continued to add onto it as recently as July the 26th 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Then, wonder of wonders, it just disappeared because from August the 1st until August the 7th 2017, I was on a trip that had developed suddenly and I was travelling from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, North to Ulan Ude, Russian Siberia, on a speaking trip, my first ever into Russia Siberia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Then back in Ulaanbaater, Mongolia, on August 14th 2017, I began dealing with a potential major health problem and ended up back in the Unites States at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, beginning on Friday, September the 1st 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So with all of the above life issues that I was dealing with at the time, this poor post just got lost in the shuffle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Yesterday (Sunday the 18th 2022) I &#8216;discovered&#8217; this poor lost orphan post. I won&#8217;t go into why I found it at this writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So, here I am on September the 19th 2022 and I am just going to post it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>August 26th 2017<\/p>\n<p>I have a saying.<\/p>\n<p>To do what I do one must have ..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The health necessary to do what one is striving to do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The money you need to do what one is striving to do.<\/li>\n<li>The guts TO DO what one is striving to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have added another category. It is not quite a MUST, as are Health\/Money\/Guts, but..<\/p>\n<p><em>IT SURE HELPS TO HAVE FRIENDS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some of these photos you may have seen over on bobbacaps.blogspot.com, and some of them you have not seen.<\/p>\n<p>Grant and Keller in Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong. En route back to the United States heading for the Mayo Clinic, I passed through Hong Kong and visited with them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?attachment_id=26381\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26381\" src=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7254-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7254-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7254-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7254-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7254.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rambo their wonderful dog. I was taking a snooze in their apartment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?attachment_id=26384\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26384\" src=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7249-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7249-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7249-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7249-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7249.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ice cream treats near their apartment in Ap Lei Chau on Hong Kong Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?attachment_id=26396\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26396\" src=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FullSizeRender21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FullSizeRender21.jpg 532w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FullSizeRender21-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grant and Rambo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?attachment_id=26383\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26383\" src=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7263-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7263-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7263-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7263-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7263.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?attachment_id=26382\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26382\" src=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7262-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7262-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7262-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7262-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_7262.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smiling, Cap and Patti, who herself doesn&#8217;t ever know what&#8217;s coming next here.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Post Script : By the way (as I discovered the above post) I found four other posts sitting for years in draft form in our archives here on babakaps.net.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I myself don&#8217;t know for sure what is coming down-the-pike here I can&#8217;t expect any of you to know. 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