WP is rotting my brain

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Sound like an accurate assessment.


I will have my ukulele and lots of books on boating. I would bring sewing...but too messy...I bring giant backpacks of stuff to do for road trips...but not very boat friendly..always having to move around and whatnots...

Now I am "locked up" on not being able to find Flakey's special green hat..I know I saw it when I was futilely attempting to organize things the other day...but my visual memory fails me as to where it is located now...and I can't do any of the other packing because I am stuck on the hat...so is Flakey...just going in circles looking for the hat.

I did make a daunting checklist of everything else we need to bring and do before we leave at 6:30a.m. but for now, all is consumed by the search for the hat.

We don't have a boat, too poor and unhealthy Did boating, and lots of canoeing, as a kid to 20-something.
Do get this magazine, lots of pretty boats in it http://www.woodenboat.com/wbmag/index.html
Some amazing woodworking talent is out there.

As far as sailboats the sharpie style is my favorite which would suit what I'd like to be able to do. Here's a particularly good one that was in that magazine a couple months ago http://www.whitewatersharpie.com/

The green hat was found...life can proceed...

This is Flakey's parent's sailboat...We are going on the "Harvest Moon Regatta"

Flakey owned lived on a Sailboat for a while a few years before we met...after his marriage went kaput.

The last sailboat Flakey bought, he christened the Spiderbite, because it was fill of spiders. He took it out a couple of times with his former-partner and then abandoned it in the marina.

His parents are "Parrot Heads"..(Jimmy Buffet fans)...and they are nuts about sailing and cruises and such.
He and his family have traveled all over the world.

I wish I could share his enthusiasm for sail boats and such..but for some reason it seems sorta bourgeois to me...not the boating and the sea per say, but the culture surrounding it all.

One of the straws on the camels back before my major crack-up a few years back, was when Flakey insisted that I learn a bunch of Jimmy Buffet songs so we could street busk outside Margaritaville in New Orleans during Jazz Fest...hours of playing the same songs over and over anytime someone walked by in a Hawaiian shirt. The Parrotheads were very stingy....It was quite maddening.

I was given a stack of books on sailing to read to read to help bolster my enthusiasm.

Yep.
Seductively afflicting to some in the world of wood boats I've heard from good friends who've been there.

I'm about as close to becoming bourgeois as a Buddha statue next to a black velvet Elvis painting in a trailer park office.

Dad was in the Navy and I grew up where boats were mostly either government with guns or weathered working vessels.
Way not bourgeois culture among most all of their crews.

I saw for the hukelele so it's fine.
But don't forget your hat and solar cream as well!

Especially for the nose and the ears: they're the first to burn when you're in the sunlight.
Hands and forearm as well!
Feet! If you go barefoot on the boat.

... Well every little part of skin which won't be covered by clothes, actually.

And don't forget to take a good time, even if you're not an experimented sailor yourself.
They know it, you don't have to stress.

Oh yeah...I usually smother myself in the highest spf possible. I still always manage to get the same sunburnt rectangle on my chest.


My dad's best friend was a habitual fisherman/restorer of beach houses, and we'd go fishing in Kemah (off a little pier)..when I was a kid. Now that very spot is the site of this gigantic corporate theme park and the marina where the sailboat we are traveling on is kept...and the little place where we used to fish is completely gone.
It is all owned by the Landry's corporation...bums me out a bit.

Oh I see.
Good memories which turned bad.

Maybe they will turn good again with that long week end trip?

I think to much of a good thing makes anyones brain rot, for me right now its to much second life, I am on that 13 hours some days, and its totally messed my life up, I have been weening myself off of one addiction for another addiction(WP)

Wow, sounds like an overloading beginning to a trip. Hope it's the sort that afterwards is a lot better than it seemed like it would be going in.

And hope you don't get seasick. I can't even look at a boat without getting queasy.

Your posts are great, PLS. I am having the same problem with the internet. Even if I stay off WP it is something else. My aim is to find lots and lots of things to do that are not involving internet and try and do them.. hard at first as the things seem boring and being on the internet infinitely more interesting But I think gradually we can become more used to doing non net related things.

A friend of mine mentioned you when we talked about WP and said you were one of her most interesting people and she liked reading about your relationships.

Hi Poopylungstuffing! I find myself doing the dishes and saying poopylungstuffing over and over..... a very quirky and addictive sounding name.
I've only been on WP for a month.....how did you come by your name?

ooh ooh! ooh ooh! I know, I know, pick me, pick me, teacher!! !

Merle

Hi Sinsboldly! Please Explain!
Are you trying to ridicule me?

oh, not at all! I am playing, I know how she came by her name! I was playing by pretending to be the eager student trying to get the teachers attention.

in other words, I didn't want to tell the story before poopylungstuffing had a chance to. It was my way of asking if I could tell her story.

Merle