Why, oh why did we not heed
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home is where I ain't ( Read more... )

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I've been here before, I thought yesterday.  I have sat in this locker room.  I have eaten in this galley.  I have worked and sweated in this engine room.
It is really weird to be having deja vu in a place you've been before in a totally foreign place.  Everything inside the ship is the same.  I even recognize some of the crew from last time.  I ( Read more... )

I've got a visa!  
Tonight I will voyage to an unfamiliar portion of the globe.  I travel with the head on my shoulders, steel toe boots on my feet, and engine diagnostic equipment in tow.  I am off to visit an old friend - a vessel designed to lift 100 tonne anchors from the sea bed.
I leave behind the cheerful spring-like weather and the daily ( Read more... )

I thought especially that
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Everyone keeps calling me or IMing me or posting, or whatever, with their jubalant news: "we've got a snow day ( Read more... )

Maybe LJ seems slower than usual because I've actually been checking it frequently ( Read more... )

Today is Candlemas, or the Presenataion of the Lord, (or formerly the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary). In any event, it has been 40 days since Christmas, and the days definitely are longer. Wikipedia has many interesting entires about this day, and the pagan holiday it replaced - imbolc, which they celebrate as the festival of the goddess ( Read more... )

Actually I found $17, frozen in the parking lot. It was one of the many interesting things I did last Thrusday ( Read more... )