No, Ghost Plane, you are used to extremes in your own Florida way -
as Texas has its - Minnesota its.
Ours is a little of each, but can be bad enough if it really wants to.

I am one proud mermaid today. Went shopping with my across-the-hall neighbor
- a delightful little fairylike lady with a paranoid psychosis. She bought this thing for her bathroom:
Drawer thingy
in knocked down state IKEA style.
Using the enclosed hexa key and a screwdriver from the tools
my ex donated to me I actually assembled the thing!!!


If I Were a Carpenter
- well, I WAS married to one without being a lady, and something must have rubbed off.

Well, not only that. The EURO is finally facing the truth as I lectured about a while ago.
I'm in the business end of that having fought hard to get a hold of some risky FOREX dealings
- an "inheritance" from my marriage.
Monday I was $200,000 down if I had to close everything. I slept poorly that night.
Now it's just 8% of that. Tonight I'll sleep well.
I'll get there - and I'll hopefully get myself together sufficiently to accept Guitar Man's Lazy Sunday invitation
in Poole, Dorset, UK when he's back from his U.S. Sofa Tour - now on his last leg staying with Ghost Plane.

Well, I have not written much for a while, so - voilá here is my life story
- abbreviated

This lovely piece of music is from
Cinema Paradiso
a wonderful Italian movie. I have hardly seen a bad Italian movie, but many excellent ones.
This one is at the very top of my list. Maybe you can rent it somewhere
- and do listen a couple of times to the music here
- it gets better each time.

Somehow extreme seems extremer in the USA this year
- you had terrible tornadoes as well in places the do not come very often, one storm system after the other and a record breaking drought in Texas

I take it these cats (José Barroso, Nicolas Sarkozy, Silvio Berlusconi) have something to do with the Euro.

"When are we going Trekking?"

I'll fire off a mass email this weekend asking for team suggestions and see what kind of response we get.

LM please remind me at Base Camp forum.

I recognized 1 of them. Do I get a prize?