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Adventures of the Elders Lasting Love

We Salute our Caregivers!

With a little help from HotPot.ai

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Adventures of the Elders The land, the people, the culture

The Lives of the Elders: Sunday, Nov. 11th, 2023

In celebration of the Lives of the Elders, the following have be approved by the WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice. [UC#3] A man named [UC#1] got a new knee For awhile, he’ll have to use a Zimmer to go pee Hoping the pain in his knee will reduce in size And the doctors bills […]

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Adventures of the Elders TechnoBLOTT

R5-D4 moves!

[UC#1] This is the robot that my son [UC#1-P1] has been working on for the last year or more. Most of it was 3-D printed on his printer. He had to figure out all the wiring and computer programming and all that stuff. This was the final part, getting the wheel motors going and responding […]

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Adventures of the Elders Fine Arts

UC#3 IRL

WLBOTT HR has granted UC#3 S/UIRL[1](pronounced /səˈrēəl/), but he leaves us with the following non-haiku limerick: There once was a man named Jerry He farmed a bog full of cranberry Every morning he put on his hip waders And would sell his harvest to OceanSpray traders But he secretly only enjoyed pie made of blueberry […]

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Adventures of the Elders Food Japan

Ozoni / Mochi

It all began with a work assignment from board member and Senior Elder UC#3: [UC#3]Much more work to do for WLBOTT: and connections between food and culture/religion [UC#3]And the mochi thing is real: Four women die in Tokyo after choking on ‘mochi’ rice cakes | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis [UC#1-SU]Can […]

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Adventures of the Elders Canada Work-Life Balance

Lives of the Elders: Stamps, Trains, Neil Young, Virtue & Vice, etc

UC#1 Back when I was considerably smaller than I am now, my dad set up an electric train for me and my sibs. Our house had only a partial basement – for the front half of the house it was only partially excavated leaving a space big enough for kids to play in. Dad took […]

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Adventures of the Elders Canada Will there be a buffet?

Trans Canada Trail: 1 of 17 ⅝

[recent executive correspondence: UC#1=>The Texas Elders] Fellow WLBOTT’ers, While I have know about the Trans Canada Trail for many years, until recently I never knew how extensive it is. We frequently walk the part of the trail that goes around [UC#1 jurisdiction] but that is a very small part of it. Of course, the trail […]

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Adventures of the Elders Curated Absurdity

Dudes Helpin’ Out Dudes

Today we celebrate dudes lookin’ out for other dudes….

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Adventures of the Elders Book Club Canada Will there be a buffet?

A Day in the Life of an Elder – UC#1’s Adventure

Well, I think I mentioned earlier that, after spending most of my retirement fund on a new natural gas furnace / heat pump we noticed our 2013 Honda CRV exhibiting a death rattle when starting cold. Actually, we noticed the sound a few years ago and the local Honda dealer replaced a belt or something […]