AUG 6, 15 .. A MONGOLIAN BARBEQUE IN MONGOLIA ..

WHEN I SAT DOWN TO WRITE THIS POST I HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT WAS COMING. I JUST TOOK THE ACTION TO BEGIN TO WRITE ..

Go figure .. Google's 'Word Check' does not want me to spell barbeque the way that I think it should be spelled .. barbeque .. 

Oh by-the-way .. My on-line dictionary spells it barbeque ..

OK .. It can and it is also spelled barbecue and THIS the Google 'Word Check' approves of.

The Time Has Come The Walrus Said ..

The Time Has Come to: Call In The Judge and The Time Has Come to Call In The Jury for a formal decision on this 'Thorny Question' ..

Google 'Word Check' I rest my case! What does it read below?

You what? You want to appeal this to another authority .. I will humor you .. I present you the below spelling of barbeque ..

Have you all heard of Julia Cameron?** She wrote the book .. 'The Right to Write' .. In the book she states .. my disclaimer is that this is from memory and it is not an accurate quote ..

Writers do NOT sit around waiting for the inspiration to write.. on the contrary.. the ACT of writing calls forth the words .. 

JUST IN CASE THIS SLIPPED PAST YOU I WILL REPEAT ..

Writers do NOT sit around waiting for the inspiration to write.. on the contrary.. the ACT of writing calls forth the words .. 

This is what I am doing right-here right-now. I am just writing. I am not waiting for the inspiration to write to strike me. Here is the odd thing .. this is not going to be a 'text intensive' post nor is it going to be a long post. It is only going to show a few photographs of a Mongolian Barbeque here in Ulaanbaatar MONGOLIA.

"What's that you ask of me 'Zilla?" .. "Where are the photos of my food?"

And Now .. taa-daa .. The Rest Of This Story ..

After I finished shooting the above photos .. it was Sunday night after four super .. and I mean SUPER intense days .. as I reached for a plate to begin to help myself to All-I-Could-Eat .. I was suddenly and I was instantaneously and I was totally and I was absolutely overcome by fatigue. 

I told one of my friends that I was not going to be able to stay and I left ..

I hailed a taxi cab ..

And we headed back to my hotel ..

With a very happy taxi driver who I found out later .. was chortling and giggling to himself about how he was going to put-it-to-me as to the fare that he was going to charge me.

The TOTAL fare I paid was .. 10,000 Mongolian Tug .. US $ 5.07. In the US you can't even look at a taxi for $5.07. Little did he know that I was chortling and I was giggling to myself thinking I would have gladly paid him double this amount as badly as I was feeling. The honest fare I found out later was about US $2.75. 

I nearly asked him IF I could lie down in the back and take a short nap.

Like each and almost all Mongolians I have met .. he was a remarkably happy and pleasant man. 

BOTTOM LINE: It was a win-win situation..

Do you look good-to-me ERIN HOTEL ..

The below photo shows you one of the best beds that I have ever-in-my-lifetime crashed down into ..

All of this because I just sat down and I just began to 'crank-away' here ..

So Much Joy I May Just Evaporate .

Sign Me .. Kanbaatar .. In my Mongolian Bearskin Coat ..

Now some of the Very-Best-For-Last ..

** Below are just a very few of Julia Cameron's thoughts.

I suggest this as my source .. 

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/juliacamer169159.html#KMPLdmIYLYWg7huM.99

From Julia Cameron:

- Perfectionism is not a quest for the best.  Perfectionism is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us nothing we do will ever be good enough.

- I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

- When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

- My work unblocks people, and then I look at the work that they do, and I think, 'My God, how could they have not known they were talented? How could they have not known?'

I HOPE I HAVE GIVEN JULIA CAMERON AND MY ABOVE INTERNET SOURCE THE PROPER CREDIT FOR THESE QUOTATIONS. 

JAN 15, 13 .. THE JIGSAW PUZZLE .. PART II

THANKFULLY! there seem to be ‘a few of you’ following along here who actually prefer reading written posts as opposed to viewing strictly photos.  I base this on the fact that a few of you voiced this preference to me when I was posting photos here and posting written thoughts over at Baba Kaps Doxology (babakaps.net) my other web site.  As in .. “Cap, actually I am reading your writings at Baba Kaps Doxology and not looking at all the photos you are posting at Bobba Caps Dolology.”

At the Royal Oak library this afternoon I MUST try to find a copy of Julia Cameron’s book .. ‘The Right To Write’ .. so I can accurately quote her when she states .. “It is the ACT OF WRITING that calls forth ideas and not sitting around idly wondering what you are going to write.”

What you have just read above IS NOT WHAT I INTENDED TO WRITE when I sat down here at 8AM Eastern Standard Time in the City of Royal Oak in the State of Michigan in the United States of America. 

It seems to be a ‘Truth Of My Writing Universe’ that the instant I put pen-to-paper or fingers-to-keyboard I seem to no longer be in-charge of what results therefrom!  And I have personally witnessed this-exact-same-phenomenon in countless others who ‘write inventory’.   They think they are going to write about one specific line of resentments and fears and a completely different line of resentments and fears comes forth from their pen!

I RESENT THIS DRATTED ‘CTRL’ KEY ON THE LOWER LEFT OF MY KEYBOARD!  I REACH TO HIT ‘SHIFT’ AND I HIT ‘CNTRL’ AND I LOSE EVERYTHING!    I FEAR THAT I JUST LOST THE TOTAL WRITING I JUST BEGAN!

OK LET ME TALK ABOUT PHOTOS!

Back last November or early December I found out Google has put a limit on the amount of storage I can 'have-for-free’ here on Blogspsot.  Or at least Google has put a limit on my photo-storage-capacity.  OK I ‘agreed’ to pay them something like three dollars-a-month (NO GOING BACK they advised me!) for my existing photo capacity.   I then tried to post a photo and got the same message that I have exceeded my photo-storage-capacity despite the fact that a few minutes earlier I had agreed to pay $3 a month! 

So I sit   S T U C K !

Rather than jump to six dollars-a-month (or even more) forever .. and risk being told that still is not enough money and I can’t go back ..  I have stopped posting photos here.

This morning I just tried the following.  I went back to FWIW 179 dated February 26, 2012, and tried to ‘revert to draft’ that writing and then ‘publish it’ hoping that the entire writing .. FWIW 179 of February 26, 2012 .. would appear-here-and-now on January 15^th 2013.  Photos and all.

NO LUCK.  It just re-posted back-in-place new changes and all. So I am TOTALLY UNABLE  to move-around-photos  already posted.  Google just won’t let me re-use existing photos.

AND-THE-WORLD-TURNS ..

Now I am thinking that I will turn Baba Kaps Doxology into a photo web site and keep Bobba Caps Doxology a text web site.

OR!  Set up another Google Blogspot web site calling it Bobba Caps Photos or some such.

NOW TO WRITE WHAT I SET ABOUT TO WRITE WHEN I BEGAN !
Thank you so much Julia Cameron !

"What did you say Oh God of Abraham?" .. "You have given me enough money to pay Google one-hundred-dollars a month for photo storage!" .. "But you don't understand Oh God of Abraham!" .. "No yeah buts you say!"

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THE  JIGSAW  PUZZLE .. PART II

Two posts ago .. Friday the 4^th of January 2013 .. I began writing about the JIGSAW PUZZLE that a major trip out-of-the-country turns out to be for me .. I can’t speak for you!

THE JIGSAW PUZZLE now stands at about 80% complete. 

I have now completed the first-round-of-mail to those friends abroad who I will see or who follow me closely here.  Post Cards only because envelope mail will often be stolen and opened in the vain attempt to find money some people are stupid enough to actually send abroad!   All mailed together in one batch of mail so IF someone tells me they received their card I will assume the others also received theirs.

 Raj in Herbertpur in Dehradun 248 142 has confirmed by e-mail he received his card.  THANK YOU RAJ !

I am busy wrapping-up a lot of odds-and-ends here that I want finished before I leave .. lists of what I need abroad .. visiting friends I want to be sure to see before I leave .. I have already made two trips to Toledo, Ohio, to see Mel and Lori and will make a third trip next Monday.  And more much more I will not go into here.

Ask me .. “Cap can you believe you are about to make your tenth (10^th) trip to India?” .. “No I can not!”

Thank you Oh God of Abraham for my many blessings!

Over and Out for now .. Cap ..