Red-Handed Jill

Aye - lots of rum and black powder! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATRICK!!

Flashbacks from my early years! GAAAAH! (Umm... was anyone else in Catholic school during the 60's? Then this should be pretty familiar - except the nun in question would have been standing over you menacingly...)

Happy Birthday Haunting Lily. And here's to many more trips around the sun!

I've just started the Aubrey-Maturin series. They are too good!

People generally don't change unless they experience pain and/or discomfort by being the way they are. I'd say figure out ways to make her attitude have unpleasant results for her and start implementing them.

I've even seen cars with Flying Spaghetti Monster symbols (like the fish symbol for Christians.) The movement is spreading... And more power to 'em!

A promotion? Very well deserved, I'm sure! Congratulations!!

I got a chance to hear Iron Bess sing at Ojai and the praise is indeed well-deserved.

So sorry I'm late to be wishing you the most happiest of natal days! Here's hoping the celebration lasts for weeks!

It's really weird how much stress can do to a person. Years ago I was working for a small family-owned business. Unfortunately, the family running it was dysfunctional. I started getting tension in my neck and at times, the tension would build up so far that my head would suddenly jerk to the right. Near the end, my head was jerking to the right A LOT. Folks must have thought I was out of my mind or something. (The voices are making me do this, heh heh...) So you just never know.

Yes, he did. Spent the weekend in Railroad Flats at a black powder rendezvous. We camped in the primitive area (as always) and there were actually quite a few camps in there with us (at the last one, it was us and four other camps.) It was a challenge and a lot of fun to meet up with folks we see only twice a year. This is typically a mountain man kind of event but they have welcomed our pirate contingent with open arms.

Wore my shoes all weekend to a black powder rendezvous and they were extremely comfortable! And for me that's a tough act to perform!

^ The "new" black is what it always was - BLACK POWDER!! < Was immersed in it this weekend. V Favourite use of a sharp object?

Fairly miffed. My birthday has yet to be acknowledged in any way whatsoever by Jack... EDIT: He overheard me mention this to a friend on the phone and has since apologized - got the day mixed up.

Oi - thanks all! Brings a tear to me eye, it does...

Hey - we'll be firing cannons together. Heck of a celebration, that!

Thanks everyone! (And Ransom - who knew?...) And I will be making lots of bangs and booms this weekend - going to a black powder rendezvous for three days! WOO HOO!

Who knew - we share a birthday! Couldn't ask for a better person to share it with. Hope the celebration lasts for DAYS!

Loved that movie - but I wanted to shake some sense into some of those folks. I think that was the point, though. Okay: "I just thought you had hidden depths." "No. No. You've always had that wrong. "

Love, Actually?

Wimps - use an axe!

Hope you have the most pyratical of natal days! (Lots of rum and plunder, ya know...)

Aye - there's a good dog! Got her priorities straight!

You're the only other person I know of besides me and Captain Gary of Royaliste who likes that rum. I'm a BIG fan of it.

Here's a bit of breakfast - something hearty and healthy to start your day: