Hell’s Half Acre

ARRRRR!  I have been so fracking sick I can’t even believe it.  I’ve been a wantin to stick my head in a bung hold and cover it with grog.  (and that will have to do for my pirate talk) I must have either picked up something at the cenote (with all the birds pooping . . . → Read More: International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

I’ll keep typing as long as I can feel my fingers but I can’t be held responsible for typos as I’m typing from a FREEZER. Jamie and Pike keep the A/C set to “FROZEN” and when i’m in the trailer it works as Ellen and I simply load up the sleeping bags and wool . . . → Read More: Grito from Valladolid

I’ve just upgraded to 2.6.2 – let me know if you have any problems.

This morning was the first time in 3 days that we are out of the bands of Ike. Yesterday we had roaring seas and wicked winds. My heart is breaking for my friend Jody, and I can only hope that she experiences a miracle.

Galveston radar

Mississippi pleads with hard-headed Galveston residents

Cuban . . . → Read More: watching in horror

What do you do when the southern bands of a hurricane start flowing over your sky? You go snorkeling, of course! We headed out for Tuesday Tea Time this morning but it was so hot and sticky and still and the still calm waters called to us so much that we threw on our . . . → Read More: Ike update

Suckerpunch Number One Way back in the Spring, or sometime in the past, honestly, my memory for non-numerical items has never been anything more than decent, I was made aware of the Randy Pausch Last Lecture.  Since our internet is satellite, we cannot download anything, even a 2-minute YouTube video, without getting our bandwidth . . . → Read More: Suckerpunch

Yup, they’re a little crowded, but that is One hurricane, Two tropical storms and One invest.  Oh, and Gustavo.  For some reason this year, all the storms are tracking north, over the Antilles.  I tried asking on Dr. M’s blog why (and I know that later in the season storms track more . . . → Read More: the day in jpgs