01: three-tiered pool - Fancy water designs at Chobe Safari Lodge.
02: travel ukuleles - Our niece and nephew play the tiny instruments they'd brought to give to an obscure group of African Jews.
03: nine or six? - A little screw up as we check in as one of the few people at a jungle lodge.
04: weirdest spaghetti ever - Also, Gretchen says the expression sex on the beach three times without being able to actually get that drink.
05: the chimps of Ngamba Island - Visiting an island for rescued chimpanzees just south of the equator in Lake Victoria.
06: what not to do on a public piano in an airport - Practicing familiar piano tunes is something best done in private.
07: no torque on what to eat - By myself and living on sandwiches while Gretchen heads up to the Adirondack cabin.
08: evidence of an amphetamine theft - A problem with the tweakerly ways of the boyfriend of a house sitter.
09: more like little footballs - A delicious and non mind-altering tea.
10: the grossness of soft tofu - It was left over from our tweaker house sitters. Also trying to fix what isn't broken at a rental unit.
11: Froggy into the Adirondacks - Listening to country music with a kitten in my lap on the drive to a cabin on a lake.
12: Trump steps in it in Charlottesville - Witnessed from the Adirondacks: after a counter-protestor is killed during nazi march on Charlottesville, Trump says the wrong thing.
13: Ramona swims across the pond - While salvaging things blown from the dock, Ramona the Dog shows off her nautical skills.
14: 80s definition of heat - It has less meaning than you might think.
15: red-vein; meh? - I try the more expensive variety of kratom and am not especially impressed.
16: 300 miles and no CEL - The latest iteration of my oxygen sensor doctoring seems to be working.
17: abandoning ice cream - A falafel sandwich was much more exciting.
18: just knowing I can go somewhere - It's often enough, and I don't actually need to go there.
19: peewees and a yard kitten - A sleepy afternoon after a good cappuccino and a gut full of spaghetti and fries in New Paltz.
20: Vicodin and retail sales - Evidently the two don't mix, at least not on an empty stomach.
21: penumbra of such advice - The solar eclipse of 2017. And yes, Donald Trump looks at it without eye protection.
22: not something you want to deal with in an airplane - Disappointing two women on the plane by taking the empty seat between them just before it takes off, one of them rewards me with a silent but fragrant fart.
23: supporting characters, no matter how colorful - A colleague's garage-based home hosts a small party in Los Angeles.
24: no twirling on forks - Retreat spaghetti proves to be a disappointment.
25: post-peak America - The experience of riding in an Uber pool.
26: air conditioning barricade - Dealing with stinky people on airplanes.
27: thorough olfactory inspection - Ramona needs to know what happened at the watching of the Game of Thones season finale.
28: Windows Phone for bathtub business - At least if it falls in the water, it's not much of a loss.
29: all the other little hygiene tools - Picking my teeth the night before a dental cleaning.
30: softening me up for an upsell - An attractive dental hygienist gushes about the quality of my teeth.
31: hard drive rings - Found jewelry in a dead Samsung hard drive.