Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Monastery

So, Senorita Weaselo and I were upstate this past weekend.

Well, the Hudson Valley counts as upstate. If you’re from the city. Which we are. So, sure. It’s a welcome respite, and as we know I normally work like a dog in June and early July, so it’s nice to do something for the summer break.

Anyway, there’s a couple of Buddhist monasteries and temples in the area, and they’re beautiful, and they’re peaceful, and I’ve had meditative moments where, and this is not a joke, I recorded all the flags blowing on a windy day because the grommets were ringing from the flagpoles. It is over 6 1/2 minutes long, and because my lizard brain forgot about the Voice Notes memo existing, recorded it on an app that is otherwise no longer available. I cannot move it from this app because the file is too big, and so the app shall stay on my phone for this one meditative 6:42 long recording.

Actually, this monastery is the setting of our story! So, we went back (after blueberry picking earlier in the day), because it’s nice, and I again enjoy the flags. I’m in the process or parking the car and a man is pointing and beckoning to us. So, I parked, turn the car off, and I think that he’s trying to tell me to park closer or otherwise move my car. But here’s fine, and the car’s already parked! Senorita Weaselo and I get out. The guy tells her to come on, and other things in Chinese (which she’s unfortunately never learned and/or forgotten from when she was a baby) but we get the gist of it and follow him to wait in line.

Why are we waiting in line? This is a good question. But there was food being given to people. (We were after the people so even if there was still food we, being very confused, just kind of went around to the rest of the grounds.) Some prayer offering? No idea.

Also, it wasn’t windy, so no ringing flags. That was a disappointment.

Anyway, the news!

-The Charmslinger is QB1 to start off for the VEP.

-Jalen Ramsay is doing better than the CB1 for his former Dolphins. Since Artie Burns may have torn his ACL. (Second opinions pending.)

Other news: I hit Level 47 in Pokémon Go! (looks suspciously at locker hallway). This puts me 3 levels and (checks calculator) 56.9% of the way to Level 50… fuck, that’s a lot to still go after 9 years. Anyway, feel free to mock me, as there’s… baseball. Yeah, sorry, everyone else.

Well, there’s the MLS All-Stars vs. the Liga MX All-Stars! Winners to be sacrificed to the Mayan gods, losers to El Salvador. Or vice-versa, I forget how the Mesoamerican ball game sacrifices worked.