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I was talking a couple of days ago with a young gentleman who used to own a comic store. He inspired me to write a little bit about comics for those who haven’t kept up. Sometime when you weren’t looking, comics got good. If you were looking, good for you, but I wasn’t and a few [...] I read this article in the paper today when the title caught my eye. We’ve been watching a fair number of “Midsomer Murders” on DVD from Netflix recently, and we really enjoy them. We sort of space them out, because too much at once is definitely cloying, but they are worth checking out. This is a [...] Flo was helping out at the fair booth for the Machine Knitters Guild, which got her two tickets for free admission. I couldn’t turn this down, so this afternoon I went to join her there. Besides, I like fairs. At least I thought I did. Either the fair is changing, or I’m changing, or both, [...] It’s the end of the year at UC Irvine, and we made a couple of trips up there to see and hear Andy perform. I missed a couple of them when I was in the Bahamas, so I had to go to these, even if one of them seemed awfully short for a lot of [...] Here’s an unlikely news article that I liked: Jack the cat chases black bear up tree. I can just imagine the bear’s thinking. I could take this guy, but I’d hurt a lot afterward, and I don’t have to. I think I’ll skip this one! Fifteen pounds of berserker tomcat is not something to take lightly [...] In response to some requests, along with a desire to learn more about using my scanner and photo editor, I’ve included some maps. These are excerpted from Yachtsman’s Guide to the Bahamas I heartily recommend the book for anyone really interested in the area. This map shows the entire Bahamas area. The little square shows where [...] This is a summary of my May 6 to May 17 trip to the Bahamas. While there I stayed on our boat, the Roseate. Individual posts will cover individual parts of the trip. Just to finish the story, it wasn’t raining the next morning, so the trip home was uneventful. No lost luggage, no bad weather, [...] Still no weather front, but we had some strong gusts overnight and the little harbor where we anchored is getting rough. We went to the local market for some supplies, then back to Red Shank for some quiet water. There are a number of other boats anchoring in the area too, so we aren’t the [...] Bad weather did not develop overnight, though it is cloudier than it has been. It’s also breezy, and Charlie claims that the crossing would have been harder if we had delayed, and could have been much harder. I am just as glad that we pushed a little. I took the boat the few miles into Elizabeth’s [...] After the prediction of an approaching front, we wanted to get the open water behind us before it got here. We started out today before 7:00 and made as directly as we could for Exuma. The morning was cloudy, but so far it’s been calm and very smooth cruising. We’ll see. The whole day went well, [...] |
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