Day five

This photo was here, it’s a stock photo, a place holder that came with iWeb, the software program I’m using to work on this blog. I thought I’d just leave this photo since this is what it basically looks like here in St. Barths anyway.

Day five
Alone for a week

Brought Maya to the airport again today, this time she got a flight. I will miss having her around. I drove back to the house about an hour ago and now I’m here for a week, alone, until Douglas Gordon arrives on Monday. This will be a nice experience, except night time may be a little spooky but we’ll see, tonight is the first night.
I’ll probably unpack my boxes, set up a table and start working either tonight or tomorrow, probably tomorrow, I think I’ll take this afternoon and evening to go to the grocery store and set up house. The stores are closed in the afternoon for a couple hours. I guess they take a break and go to the beach for a bit, a siesta, so I’ll have to wait a couple hours for them to open again. Shopping is odd because the packaging is all in French. I was buying a jar of spaghetti sauce yesterday and I couldn’t tell if meat was in the ingredients or not. I’ll probably eat a lot of cheese sandwiches while I’m here, which is fine by me, plus they have lot’s of cheese here.
I’m still scratching from all the mosquito bites, it’s awful. Maya got me a new, electrified swatter for a gift when she left. I got some new batteries and I’m ready for war. I’m getting used to the dragons. I just stomp my feet when I walk to give them fair warning to go and hide, which they don’t really do, they just run away a bit and turn back and stare. When I see them just off the porch on the rocks and leaves, I’m not scared of them. But if I happen upon one and get surprised, I think, what the fuck am I doing here, this is crazy. Actually, one of them walked over to the top of this rock a few feet from where I am sitting right now, on the porch, and when it got to the top of the rock, he or she placed its hands over the edge and sat there like a dog, watching me type. For a second i thought it was, well I don’t want to say cute but it seemed friendly, or content for the moment, watching me watch it. I can’t stand reptiles, but I’m doing ok with these for now. And again, if it were snakes, bye bye.
Here’s the crazy bird that hangs out here, I just took this movie of his chirps.....make sure you have your sound on and push play.....

I phoned Jonathan today who’s at work in Manhattan and the first thing he said was that Paris Hilton was on the front page of every newspaper since yesterday was day one for her being in jail. I found a radio here, turned it on. Most of the stations are French speaking and all I could make out from this particular station was the name ‘Paris Hilton’ peppered in between some fast speaking French. Jonathan and I used iChat the other night, with video, so we could see and talk to each other and the quality of the sound and the video on both ends was really impressive. He in Harlem and I in the Caribbean and it was very clear and it was really fun. Computers - the wave of the future.
It’s hot here and very sunny today. I haven’t ventured anywhere alone yet but I’ll probably go to the beach tomorrow morning to walk. You can’t exactly get up and walk along the roads because there are no sidewalks, the roads are narrow and people drive fast and reckless. It’s kind of fun, whipping around the turns, but there is no way you can go for a walk unless you go to the beach. There are no streetlights either, so it’s very dark at night. You can see all the stars that are possible to see, and the ocean if the moon is bright enough. I like standing on the porch and looking out at the road which is way down below to watch the cars drive up it. For some reason its fun. It could be because it’s the only thing that’s actually happening here...I mean as far as an actual event unfolding - involving humans. It’s kind of like a television show, but the only thing that happens are cars driving up a windy road at the base of a huge mountain. They come around a corner way at the bottom, and eventually vanish around a corner. It’s so far down that the cars are about the size of an M&M, no, smaller. It gets particularly exciting when two cars pass each other because the roads are narrow and rear view mirrors just miss hitting each other. You can see what I’m describing in the pictures link here. And yeah, in case you couldn’t tell, there’s not television in the house.
I just walked around the property to take some photos so you can see more of what the place is like. I also took some nice photos of the moon last night, click here to see the new pictures.
That’s it for now. Oh, one more things, this is kind of blowing my mind....

This video was posted on YouTube and one person wrote in the comment area, “What happens if you punch it in the face”, which I thought was totally funny. I wrote a comment too; “I’d like to see a baby that acts like a robot”.