{"id":37119,"date":"2026-02-17T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=37119"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:10:37","slug":"tuesday-bag-o-hot-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=37119","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Bag o&#8217; Hot Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"update bag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/55101295731\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55101295731_9fd57dbe48_m.jpg\" alt=\"update bag\" width=\"161\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Mary, my sister from Montana. is visiting the Tucson area. She&#8217;s here with her husband Dennis, staying with Dennis&#8217; sister and her husband in Green Valley, a retirement community 40 miles south of Tucson. It&#8217;s been difficult trying to hook up and I suspect Trumpian family dynamics are in play. After some back &amp; forth, we have agreed to meet at Pima Air and Space Museum Thursday morning, where I&#8217;ll give the two couples a guided tour, followed by lunch at the Triple T truck stop, another local landmark. Sadly, Donna will be on a weekend retreat in Show Low, so they&#8217;ll have to settle for just me.<\/p>\n<p>An old friend, Rhoda, is also in town. We&#8217;ll get together next week, once Donna&#8217;s home. I&#8217;m having another damn skin cancer removed Tuesday. It&#8217;s by my left ear and if past procedures are any indication, I&#8217;ll be wrapped up like a mummy for a day or two afterward. I won&#8217;t want to go out in public, so we&#8217;ll have Rhoda over for dinner rather than go out somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>To date I&#8217;ve recorded four wristwatch videos for YouTube and TikTok. They&#8217;re amateurish and though I claim the lack of polish is intentional, I&#8217;m secretly tempted to redo them. That&#8217;s the curse of being a Type A. I don&#8217;t know why, but the ones I uploaded to TikTok have scratchier audio than the ones on YouTube, so I&#8217;ll share the YouTube links here. You can find them easily enough on TikTok if you prefer that platform \u2014 just search for &#8220;Watch Show &amp; Tell by Paul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NFXhk13qKX8?si=B2FalEp7K49qBOIH\">Watch Show &amp; Tell by Paul: Yankee Air Pirate Watches<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/32nnnw_Kkk0?si=BRvgrzKHxfEVZvtn\">Watch Show &amp; Tell by Paul: Talkin&#8217; About Timex<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P0S7IDXhhO0?si=EGOUfjlrWj82gmyf\">Watch Show &amp; Tell by Paul: I&#8217;m Being Followed by a Moon Phaser<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aY_aaQHlT68?si=aR546O2bE77zQh4E\">Watch Show &amp; Tell by Paul: The Sparkle in My China<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Timex video is the one I like best, done with a handheld smart phone, and better yet, minus my own talking head.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_7581\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/55097360980\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55097360980_88da2bb406_n.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7581\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>You probably think I&#8217;m lying, but this photo was not staged. When I started wearing an Apple Watch, nearly a year ago now, I uploaded photos to use with one of the optional watch faces, one of them a two-year-old shot of Fritzi with a yellow tennis ball in her mouth. When I select that watch face, which isn&#8217;t often (I prefer one that looks more like a traditional watch, with a dial and hands), it shuffles photos every fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I was grilling lamb chops for dinner on Valentine&#8217;s Day when Fritzi ran up with that same ball \u2014 one of a dozen different balls littering our back yard \u2014 and when I glanced down at the watch, the photo of Fritzi with the ball just happened to be one showing. My iPhone was on the patio table by my side, so I grabbed it with my other hand and took this photo.<\/p>\n<p>I have a bunch of regular wristwatches and wear them, picking a different one every morning \u2014 you may have seen some of my watch o&#8217; the day photos on Facebook or Instagram. So what&#8217;s with the smarty on my wrist? Early last year I was diagnosed with AFib, and shortly afterward started wearing an Apple Watch to monitor my heart rate. For a while I wore it 24\/7, but since undergoing an ablation procedure my heart rate has been regular, so now I just wear it overnight. I reckon if the AFib sneaks back into my life it&#8217;s as likely to happen by night as by day, and if and when (let&#8217;s hope if) that happens I&#8217;ll start wearing it full-time again. For now, with the AFib under control, I can at least wear my beloved &#8220;real&#8221; watches by day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of wrapped up like a mummy, am I the only one who hears &#8220;wrapped up like a douche&#8221; in Manfred Man&#8217;s &#8220;Blinded by the Light,&#8221; even though I know it&#8217;s supposed to be &#8220;wrapped up like a Deuce&#8221;? Who the hell pronounces deuce as douche, outside of Manfred Man? In the original, recorded by Bruce Springsteen, it&#8217;s pronounced correctly. The Who does a job on &#8220;bomb&#8217; in &#8220;Athena,&#8221; pronouncing it &#8220;bone,&#8221; as in &#8220;she&#8217;s a bone,&#8221; which is what I thought they were actually saying for years, assuming it was some kind of Brit slang for a hot chick. Which &#8220;bomb&#8221; is in both British and American English, but so could &#8220;bone&#8221; be if you don&#8217;t mind everyone assuming you get an erection every time you see a hot chick.<\/p>\n<p>But I ramble. Stay fresh, cheese bags!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister Mary, who lives in Montana, is visiting the Tucson area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4432,18,40,2,827],"tags":[3210,3154,4858,4601,4525,848],"class_list":["post-37119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-seiko","category-consumerism","category-critters","category-personal","category-social-media","tag-dachshund-2","tag-family-2","tag-misheardlyrics","tag-bigseiko","tag-tiktok","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37119"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37132,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37119\/revisions\/37132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}