Mission

It does indeed! Thanks! No one will get in trouble. I'm putting together a web-page based account of my PiP Journal (which Stynky Tudor has stickied in the PiP forum) and I like putting names to the pics. "Un-k... un-k... there's no name on it!" "There's no name here, either. See, that's what Bill Carson told me. It was the grave marked "Unknown", right beside Arch Stanton."

Last I talked with Michael his schedule was a bit hectic as well. Still, you can pm him and see. His username is MichaelSBagley. Say, were you with the Apple Pie group? I am trying to figure out whose tents were whose at PiP for my web page. If you were encamped, were either of these yours? I think they belonged to the folks making Apple Pie and I'm trying to tag them with owner names and pirate groups:

Yep. I don't want any; never did. I think even when I was young (I decided this when I was about 13 or 14) I recognized it was a choice that had to be made and stuck with. (Although, in all honesty, it was mostly a choice to be selfish.) Besides, when you already think like a kid, why would you want any home-based competition?

I don't know why I'm just finding this post, but I am. Silas, what are the names of the boys in this pic? This is a neat one. Does that man ever stop sneaking into, mugging for and stealing pics? What was going on here?

To stay in my room and read something interesting. I like neither ice cream nor scented candles. (Particularly sandalwood. That is the stinkiest candle ever I have smelled.) And that whole scenario implies a group of largely insincere well-wishers. (Pardon my cynicism.) And organic fabrics make me itch. They're bad for you. I will soon ask Michael to make all future kit for me out of polyester. (This will be right before Michael decides to stop making future kit for me.)

Photo credit: Madam Grace Don't even believe that all innocent look... (Read some of the thread in the PiP forum. It will all become clear.)

Well, since starting this modified diet on Dec. 14th, my diabetic doc informs me I have lost about 15 pounds. So take that, all you people and your theories about alcohol having no calories or sugars or whatever. (Soon I will be thin and beautiful.)

Gibbet number two has been purchased. I do so hope in a thousand years some lunatic sociologist tries to reconstruct my life by leafing through my credit card receipts... I have a slight complication with the female skeleton in that she has no hook on top of her head. (Insert gratuitous penis joke here.) See, the skeleton has to hang from a hook in the top of the gibbet. The things are so flimsy that they can't support the weight of the skeleton. Fortunately I have many welder friends. (I have to weld a metal rod to the rod that runs through her spine so it pokes out of the top of her skull and attach a hook or loop to it.) She's going to get the most violent of lobotomies...

Rum...bring rum. I took a ton of pics of encampments if you want to see what people had there for ideas. You will find them here. Captain Sophia M. Eisley also took several which you can view starting here. You'll want a period-type bowl and utensil (a spoon will usually serve well). Of course, you can buy that from the vendors in a pinch. Presuming Silkie does the Sealkies Hide Ordinary next year, you really don't need food. There was always food around this year. Silkie done right by us pirates. Yep, bring rum. Good sipping rum. That and a good disposition and you'll make friends quickly. (Guard your hat, though.)

Or better yet, why bother with just one day? I find tithing is returned at least 10 fold in one way or another. Here's a group for ya': Friends of Fort Taylor -- The Community Service Organization (CSO) of Ft. Taylor. The non-profit group sponsors the Civil War Days event, the Pirates in Paradise Festival and other historical reenactments. Their role is to help preserve Ft. Taylor, a national landmark, as well as assist the state park in its overall mission. Contact them at P.O. Box 58, Key West, FL 33040.

Oh, that's right! I'd actually like to put a link to any info they have on-line seeking funding for that project. (Any PR is good PR, even on my dinky website. ) Anyone know what a ship's line is?

Latitude. That too. (I always get the two terms mixed up. I knew it was the bands going crosswise. Yeah, yeah, LONGatude. They could be long either way, though. Well, except for at the top. Never mind.) Dammit Jim, I'm a surgeon not a navigator! Explanation? Anyone? I can't seem to find this on-line, all I get is the stupid mooring lines! And Luna definitely just confuses Google. Would someone please explain this? LIKE DUTCH? (Pleeeeease?)

The first thing I thought of when I saw this was, "C'mere little girl...you want some candy?"

Actor, pirate re-enactor soon-to-be reverend, and gamer. Here's to ya' mate. (He's can be kinda' quiet, though. We have to get him out to PiP...that'll fix that. )

Thanks for the info! In one sentence, what do they do? For example, why is there a 28s Sand Glass? (I'll be sure to give credit where it's due.) I do know about the back and cross staves. (With the cross staff you figure longitude by looking into the sun, with the back staff you turn your back to it.) The log book is pretty clear as well. Items not identified: The ship's bell - used to "announce" time. The silver thing on the ship's lines - which Coastie identifies as a 'scope. (And I trust Coastie on this point.) Dutch's mug - used to make Dutch unreliable as the navigator. (I don't see the sundial ring, although I seem to recall you having a ring.) Is the rope with the weight on the end (not shown here) for taking depth measurements? Does it have a name?

(Ok, how much to I owe you?) "They tried to molest me!" "That's............unbelievable." (That line should have been directed at Streisand.) "I intend to get to the bottom of this web of deceit and confusion if it takes me the rest of my life! Which may end at any moment."

Dutch was explaining navigational tools at PiP this year and I never caught all of his explanations as I was explaining surgical tools. So I have taken one of the photos of his stuff and numbered it. Can anyone tell me what it is? (Maybe like Dutch?) I have these photos of him using most of this stuff and I don't know the names to call this stuff by. (I know 1 and 6 are timers, but what did they call them on the ship? And what were their uses?) He also had a knotted rope, presumably used to measure speed - but, again, I don't want to call it the wrong thing on my web page. No sense in mis-educating people. Thanks!

Sorry, Bo...we'll have to amputate.

The trouble is that the further away you get, the harder it is to remember what happened. That's why I like to record things as they happen. Even when I can't get on-line (I couldn't at Hampton), I still type things in at least once a day and twice if I can manage it. You forget so quickly...

'T isn't done yet. I'll alert everyone when it is. (I got this brilliant idea to do all these Easter Egg extra pages since there were so many good pics this year and...what a stupid idea. I could quit, but I can't. I'm driven. Or something. So far there are 12 EE pages and a bunch more to do. I haven't even started on the main pages of the journal yet...)

Oh, boy! I was doing a training today at Michigan State University and they have a public land grant. Long story short, they have to let the public have at their electronic database collection. They have access to both the Early English Books Online and Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online. I am filling up my 8g memory stick with some great stuff. The Experienced Chirurgion by John Moyle, De recta sanguinis missione by John White, Thomas Sydenham's complete works, John Atkins' The navy surgeon, Thomas Bonham's The chyrugians closet, R. Butler's An Essay on Blood-Letting and that's only about half of it. It's like striking the mother load. I may never start writing at this rate...

Possibly. Thinking on it a little, I can see where you might draw a parallel between them and Freud's psychic apparatus. Bones, the emotional doctor would be the Id, Kirk, the (somewhat) pragmatic leader would be the decisive Ego and Spock would be the corrective Superego. (Kirk has a lot of Id in him as well. The Superego tends to be moralist in nature, which I don't really get from Spock, but that was how it came to me.) Freud postulated that in order for a person to be normally functioning, neither the Id nor the Superego could be in charge, a strong Ego had to make the final decisions. It's sort of a weak comparison in many ways, but there it is. Of course, Freud's theories are kind of out of favor with many people right now. This one and the Conscious, Preconscious and Unconscious tend to hang around in psych circle, though. (The Un/Subconscious fascinate me. It is one of the areas about which I might write my thesis if I get that far.)

Topping $2 a gallon around here. Up from an average of about $1.50 per. ($3 by May or June...I stick with it...until May or June, of course. )

They won't fit me.

Note that when I say "opposite," I actually mean male-female opposite approaches to similar roles, not opposite types. I think the show sort of highlights the popular perception of male/female approaches - their strengths and weaknesses. Of course, anyone can do anything IMO and artificial categories are just one way of looking at something. It was just something I noticed after that comment on the Disc 2 extras. You could poke lots of holes in my premise if you wanted. It was just something I was thinking about during my -13° walk this morning. (If someone had told me it was -13° out, I never would have gone. Fortunately no one did.)