Author: Steve Antipolo

Had a lay in bed today until 10:20, true, it was about 2:20am when I went to bed but that’s still a step forward for me!

Managed to help Matt & Anne a fair bit today which was rewarding, nice to be able to be there for them for a change.

Put the rubbish out here and picked up some 8 & 6 legged friends in the process so needed a shower to flush them away (shudder)

Only managed an hour with Dennis earlier, I think the local internet cafe cut the connections around them to get some extra business. Thought there was an irony in an internet cafe which didn’t serve coffee!

It’s not the best picture of Dennis, but it was a quick screen grab for my blog.

In the process of resetting my phone at the moment. It’s not been quite right since it went all lollipop on me and Samsung suggest a reset to resolve the issues. Worth  try I guess.

I keep pushing myself anyway. That said, I am going to write this then go pass out for some hours or so!

Yesterday I was so tired I had to stop driving up to Derbyshire. I was able to eat something and carry on but, even so, stupid tired.

Had an epic GTAV session last night but I was so tired there were times I couldn’t remember which controls did what! I wasn’t doing much more than making up the numbers!

Today I was so tired I was driving up curbs in the car.

Am so tired I am genuinely having trouble thinking.

Even so, have been having a great many long conversations with Mama in the Philippines, that’s been fun and makes my relationship with Dennis feel even more real.

Went cycling yesterday but we only did 5 miles, not really good enough but still enjoyable.

Got some good news today that someone has finally got a long overdue criminal record and, about time! It’s not for the sort of crime that they should have been charged with and they will find some way to get someone else to pay the fine for them but, even so, they cannot deny that criminal element to their life now, perhaps the police won’t be quite so keen next time to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Back to being tired … should have gone straight to bed, am obligated now to doing something else so I won’t have time for a nap after all

I’ve decided that the only way to find my lost 62GB memory stick is to buy another one. I visited Amazon and found the old purchase at £35 but now it is £14.99 except, underneath it said it had been replaced by a USB3 version for £13.99, a result I think!

Whilst I was there I also bought a tea strainer as that too has gone missing! I quite like leaf tea but can’t stand all the large leaves at the bottom. I particularly love Jasmin tea, it’s just sort of yummy and fresh and in my special china tea service too from China … OK, it was made in China but was actually bought in Spain at a theme park in their land which they call ‘China’ so, one way or another it’s authentic!

Cortana was missing as a working version from Windows 10 but strangely, now it works! I changed it all to USA location and it worked straight away, it wouldn’t with UK settings. I decided I really didn’t want my PC thinking it was American though so reverted back to UK and, as if by magic, Cortana works so, she doesn’t quite qualify because she’s no longer missing.

Dennis, I am missing Dennis … had to include him somehow in a blog!

I pulled on to a roundabout earlier narrowly missing another car .. entirely my fault, misjudged his speed and he had right of way.

Acquired a move the other day, ‘One of our Dinosaurs is Missing’ … can’t remember whether it was any good or not so might need to watch it.

I am in love with Dennis pure and simple. Yes, I understand that some might find it difficult to understand how I can be in love with someone the other side of the world who I have never met.

Clearly it is possible because it’s real and, Dennis feels it too which, let’s face it, is a good thing!

We speak just about every day between 12-3pm or as much time as we can on Skype otherwise on Viber. Time always flies by so quickly even on those days when we barely say anything.

God willing Dennis will be over here next April time for a month to get to know me in the flesh and also to get to know the family a lot more and those friends who would like to meet him. We are, of course, relying on the UK Border Agency approving his tourist visa but that should all go through OK. I shall probably go there to visit over Christmas 2016. Dennis only really gets two longer breaks from work in April and December so when we can travel is restricted.

He is a teacher living, hmm, about an hour or so south of Manila? I think that’s about right.

Long distance relationships are tough, our time online is quite precious to us so, unless it is really important we’d appreciate it if calls and requests were kept to a minimum during ‘our’ time.

All things working out wonderfully, and we like to be positive, he may come here permanently in perhaps summer 2017. It might then be quite possible that by 2030 we will move back to the Philippines for retirement but, that’s a long way off yet!

Hopefully, in time, Dennis will remember to write on Facebook and add some friends and family so you all can get to know him too.