Seriously bad news on the commercial loan front. All the best will in the world has not proven effective. In the current banking climate, no one will give us the loan for the building. There is also no selling anything even if we wanted to. They'll give us about 2/3 of what we need to fund the loan. The rest is the cruising kitty and an investment ( Read more... )

It's like there is a rule that everything has to get much worse before it gets better. That's not a Murphy rule but it might as well be. I'm going to whine for a bit here. If you don't want to read it, go browse until I'm done ( Read more... )

An old friend of mine emailed this to me this morning. I believe we did a similar meme not too long ago, but I think I never replied. Heh. It was interesting how wholly and completely I fail to fit into these meme's any longer. Behan, I challenge you to answer these in light of living on the boat as well. It's a bit daunting ( Read more... )

That in the same year there would be both a hurricane Dean AND a hurricane Karen. I think someone is trying to tell us something. http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/2007names.htmRead more... )

The practice is SOLD. I want a big SOLD stamp. The practice is SOLD ( Read more... )

Thanks to samueljl. This is fun. I like the fact that basically I don't have an accent. Good for PODCASTING! Woo hooo!!

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern ( Read more... )

So niherlas is right, it can get a lot worse. Though, ironically the predicted power of the sinus infection is the least of the problems. Now I've got an adenoid on the left side that is roughly the size of a golf ball. You can actually see it. It looks like I suddenly got really fat and my jowls sagged... but just on one side. The pain this causes ( Read more... )

Two bits of reason we need all your positive karmic thinking ( Read more... )

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18 to 25 knots for nearly three hours last night during our DSS redux. We had Noey and the family. A sunset. Great wind. WOOOOooooeeee. Very very fun. DrC thinks it might have been our best wind in DQ. That says something really miserable really about the Puget Sound, when you think about it. I refuse to think about it.