Sorry that it has been a while since I posted on this blog. Last time I posted I had just come back from walking, and was in a great mood. Funny thing was that within about 30 minutes after I posted, about 30 guys from a construction site down the street came to our house and accused me of having kicked one of them! Basically, for a foreigner living in the Philippines getting attempts at extortion is not uncommon. These guys made a ridiculous claim and was hoping that I would pay them some money. They quickly learned that they would not be getting any cash from me, and they left me alone. Can you imagine, me, just one guy would go to a construction site that had about 30 to 35 employees and start kicking one of the workers? It just doesn’t make sense!

Anyway, because of that incident, I have really cut back on my walking quite a bit, and I am about ready to get started again. I miss it. Today is Saturday, maybe tomorrow or Monday I will go out for a walk again.

I am sorry to report that one of my walking companions, Bingo (one of my dogs) is no longer with us. We had to have him put to sleep after he attacked one of my kids. When I went to help my 5 year old son, Bingo then attacked me. I don’t know what happened to him, he had been a very good dog in the past, but had been acting funny in recent months, including a couple other smaller attacks on the kids. He had just gone to far this time, and I had to have him put down. I do miss him, though.

Today was very hot and humid. My wife and I went out to do a few things. After being out for a couple hours, I started feeling very sick, dizzy and with a stomach ache. I think it was a combination of the severe heat we had today and maybe I needed to eat something, but I felt very bad. We came home and I sat in my air conditioned office working for a few hours. After 30 or 40 minutes in the air conditioning I started feeling much better.

Sorry again to have not posted for so long. I will try to get back here more regularly!