Homeless Diver

It was one of those huge Tokay geckos… about 7 inches long.  I woke up this AM and found this. That book is the encyclopedia of recreational diving, about an inch thick and weighs a few pounds. It was on this end of the screen. This morning, it was on the ground, the box had been turned slightly like it had been kicked, and the screen is BENT upwards and crinkled.  Are there monkeys coming in this fucker?

I now have two of the large Tokay geckos. I used to think it was just a huge mother but now know its a different breed that rund around eating all the other smaller breeds of geckos, large bugs and… massive cock roached that are already posioned to death. Yuppers, I think they’re eating these 2 inch dead roached that died from uber doses of that Baygon posion thats so strong it makes even myself sick. Kills the huge roaches and spiders in a matter of seconds. But these geckos, they eat this toxic corpse and keep on truckin’.

Ya see, it was raining for almost two days last week and that drives these massive roaches inside thru the slatted windows, under doors and out of water drains. The hole in the drain grill is smaller than a pencil but they still manage to squeeze thru somehow. So I went around spraying all over and sure enough, a few hours later we had dead roaches all over; it looked like someone had unleashed muslim terrorism in the bug kingdom.

But the next morning, most of the corpses were gone. huh? A day later, I find these huge gecko turds and can easily identify it as whole-swollowed roach carcass.  I bet these bad ass lizards are kicking back doing shots of Baygon when I’m not looking.

All I had time for was this grainy pic just after the large Tokay gecko ate the smaller “ta-ka” gecko (according to how several people are pronouncing the small ones.) That would explain all the missing tails. Geckos eating geckos on Boracay - guess I learn something new every day.

I thought perhaps it was mating season but I’m thinking that the geckos are engaging in war. When they mate, the male pretty much goes Neanderthal and rapes his girl. They might circle a few times then he bites her on the back and holds her still while he does his bidness’.  But now, I keep seeing a lot of geckos with missing tails or regrowing a new one.

During the blackout/typhoon, I did see one that was edgy and going after others left and right. He was extremely sensitive to light for some reason. I would shine the lighter-lite on him , wiggle a little and he would freak out. Sometimes charging in my direction down the wall before turning back. A few others have also been edgy around the light, which is the first time I’ve seen it.

Gratuitous pic of the new big-bitch of the house. She’s taken to staring me down when I leave my room at night.

Sugar ants can predict typhoons - the recent invasion completely disappeared the morning before the typhoon hit Boracay. They came back at the end of the last rain and are back in force.

There is a former NASA engineer working as night-shift manager at a 24-hour bar in D’Mall….uh huh

Drunkenly walking thru a typhoon is easier than reporters make it look…either that or they’re drunk themselves.

NEVER take that large ‘emergency’ frozen bottle of water out of the freezer for longer than is necessary, it might make a difference between a little trash and a lot of rotten food.

Drunk Canadians with an accent like a drunk east Texan redneck should not be allowed in bars less than a kilometer from me.

Andoks is capable of closing; who would have thought.

Andoks does not need refrigeration: you will feel just as miserable the next morning regardless of refrigerator or not.

Solitaire by candle light sucks. It truly sucks. You cannot imagine how bad it wholly sucks.

Casual sex becomes “do you have a generator?”

Tokay geckos dont care if you just cleaned the house from top-to-bottom, they will crap huge nuggets whenever they please.

The ability to offer a clean-water shower can be traded for earthly sins.

Cocomangas never stops partying…ever.

The Baboy store will sell you tanduay in the middle of a typhoon…but only if he has a bottle left for himself.

Do not order any dishes with meat from a place that only uses generators at night time.

I can withstand being hit in the head, neck, and shoulders by flying coconuts. This is not bragging, but its still pretty damn interesting. Ok, yea its bragging.

The center of D’Mall is impervious to typhoon winds…possibly connected to the Bermuda Triangle

I am not the only person on this island that apologizes after pissing off people the night before.

The staff of Red Pirates are a dedicated bunch that let nothing stop the booze from flowing; even if that includes one of them standing on the thatch/nippa roof in sandblasting wind and rain to repair a few minor leaks.

Bags of trash are capable of levitating 200 meters and into other peoples houses.

It is possible to out-party people who have lived a party life for the last 5 years.

My neighbors do not need a 2-man-lift generator for basic sanitation, lights, fan, hotwater, cooking….no, they need it for a karaoke machine.

Having a spare and fully charged battery for the cell phone only matters when….when…. hell, it didnt matter. The service was out.

Sand can, and will, inform you of new body cracks it has found.

Rubbing alcohol is not a good way to clean the tabletop whilst using candles.

That big, huge, monsterous gecko that lives in the house…well, she might be dead. I’ve had a rash of cats getting into the house lately from the balcony and even a fight in my kitchen the other night….but last night, I saw the geckos tail. About 3 inches of it anyway. On the floor in an area that she never goes. I think the cats might have gotten her but at least I know she put a hurtin’ on them…she was a mean fu*ker.  At about 18 inches long, she was just starting to warm up to me. I was feeding her cicadas from the front porch (she always hangs out in the kitchen at night). These cats are hungry all the time and I doubt they would have left the tail section unless they had the body. They even steal whole chicken quarters when I’m marinating them and recently jumped on the HOT grill to get at the chicken carcass that I was searing.

I ended up asleep by 2230 last night. Deep sleep then I couldn’t sleep at all after an hour when the sinus acted up really bad. I’ve never had that happen before. I took some methol/camphor vaporub stuff and slathered it all over my face and a little up my nose. Hurt like hell but after an hour, I drained a lot out and was able to sleep again.

I also got up at 0730 today, which is not normal, at all.

Gonna be a busy day today. I have some college courses to finish this morning, again, since the puter locked up on me yesterday and the autosave didn’t seem to be working…..lost all my work. The I have to clean out the maids quarters room, clean the spare CR, move the washing machine, reattach the showerhead, clean the fridge, sweep and mop the floor. I’m not turning into a bitch or anything but we are about to have a full house and it never hurts to spruce up the place.

Personally, I dont mind the gecko shit everywhere. Except on the table.