Raphael Misson

Jessi may just have to prod me from time to time to make sure I'm awake is all.

Oh! Originally I thought it was discussed that it was to be limited to only Wednesday or Thursday. That's nice for those of you camping.

I'll hang out with Jessi at the gate on Friday if I can stay awake that late.

Yeah, what Captain Sterling said. The precursor events are neat, but they're sort of one shot deals scattered around various places in town. The fort only allows the pirates to camp on that weekend he mentioned. (I believe starting Thursday the 3rd.) So most people will be showing up on Thursday (3rd) or Friday (4th). Hurricane may be able to tell you more about the precursor events as he seems to have been involved with some of them in the past. But you have to stay in a hotel or make arrangements to stay somewhere in town.

Here's an example of one of the town events several of us went to last year:

The Buxom Wench and Bad Ass Pirate Contest

I finally got my fixed, sorted and posted. You can see them here. All the climbing and water shots were taken by Kate/Jessica and all the shots of Trish and me firing the cannon were taken by Andrew Thatcher.

I should really have taken a pic of one of the skeletons in shades with a cig hanging out of his mouth at the wheel of the DMC before I sold it.

I found 13 posted photo albums last year when I was putting the Surgeon's Journal for the event together, so I've no doubt there will be a lot of pictures. You can find links to all of last year's photo albums in this thread.

I have never heard of a car ferry from the mainland to Key West, and I've researched a lot of strange ways to get there. I don't know where such a ferry would dock, to be honest. I would guess it would almost have to be somewhere on Stock Island if there was one.

Most visitors find a car in Key West as more of a liability than a boon, so I there may not be significant demand for a public car ferry. Besides, the highway is nice and wide. (Now if you had been driving with all your stuff before 1982 when the highway was a narrow thing built atop of the old railroad with nothing but the yellow line separating the lanes, I would have probably wanted to take a car ferry too.)

Hmm. Then Stynky is definitely out. I'd trust Captain Jim with my card, though. And Brig. Maybe Jesse. If there was a drunken photo of me with my best imaginary internet friend, I could use that, but there isn't.

"Hey, I seen a rabbit."

"Ya see?!"

"Where?"

"He's right here in the bar. Say hello... Harvey."

How about one of these:

I can't believe I missed an even more obvious caption for that pic -

"We want the essentials. Dinettes. Complete bedroom groups. Convenient credit, even if we've been turned down in the past..."

So my CC company says I can personalize the image on my card. I really wanted to use this picture:

(with the caption "Of course this is my card!)

...but somehow I doubt they'll let me. So what do you guys think I should use?

Aw, I didn't even get to do it during the battle. Silas was the one who risked life and limb. (Twice!!!)

Ah, Latin. I must say I now officially hate Latin. It's not really Latin's fault per se - it's really quite innocent in all this. It's the fault of the period surgeons who abbreviate and misspell it. Repeatedly and randomly.

Incidentally, if you don't need to own the original docs but would like to get hold of period medical discourses written by period surgeons -some of them even sea surgeons- you can find shloads of books and short subjects in pdf form using on-line databases. You usually have to go to university libraries to get access to them, but where there's a will, there's a way. I have several memory sticks full of books and docs that I thought sounded interesting. (Until I started reading them and encountering all that sloppy Latin.)

So you are planning to steal...um, borrow...a 10' x 12' tent? (It couldn't possibly be yours...)

A very nice event with some interesting new adventures and people. (I made a list.) However, I arrived home learn of the failure of the master computer at the business, so I'll probably be dealing with that all day. Whee. I'll post pics as soon as I'm able - hopefully today. We should start a new thread for that, eh?

Ah, the Arts Festival. That's where someone called me "Colonial Boy."

Interaction between the events is a great promotional idea.

Whatever Wobble juice is, as I remember the taste (that would be somewhat vaguely) it can't possibly be 100% rum. It has other flavors in it...or are those just flavored rums?

Indra's Net: Alchemy and Chaos Theory as Models for Tranformation by Robin Robertson.

Aha! Jessi's Mercury role should be...the Chocolate Baroness.

Not quite the same as your story, but some period chocolate refs. (We'd have a rare raven-haired Spaniard from the 18th c. in our crew.):

“[1705] The Cocoa-Tree is small, and the Nut or Kernel bigger than an Almond; and ripens in a great Husk, wherein are sometimes 30, nay 40 Cocoas. These Cocoas are made use of to make Chocolate: And as in England we go to the Tavern to drink a Glass of Wine, so they do here (upon this Coast of Mexico) as frequently go to their Markets to drink a Dish of Chocolate; And the Indians count it a very wholesom Drink. We were glad, whilst we were upon this Coast, to make three Meals a Day of it for near a Month. We would much rather, if we could, have fed upon Flesh; But however, living near a Month upon Chocolate, it made us very fat, and we found that it kept us very well in Health. Whether, if we had lived upon it much longer, it would have done us hurt, I know not; but I am apt

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to believe it would have increased our Fat too fast, and so have made us unhealthy.” (William Funnell, A Voyage Round the World, p. 89-90)

“This Province [Guatemala] has many hot Springs, of several Natures. There is also good Balsam, liquid Amber, Anime, Copal, Suchicopal, and other Gums; several Creatures in whom the Bezoar Stone is found, and much Cacao for making of Chocolate, which is very valuable.” (Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World in the Years 1708 to 1711, Volume 1, p. 371)

PC Margaritas? Que?

I didn't think rum (as we know it today) was even truly PC...

Wait, this is interesting.

"The community we now know as Tequila officially became a village in 1656. In the 1700s, mezcal wines became an important product for export because the town of Tequila lay on the route to the newly opened Pacific port of San Blas.

The first licensed manufacturer was a gentleman by the familiar name of José Antonio Cuervo. Sr. Cuervo received the rights to cultivate a parcel of land from the King of Spain in 1758, and the rest is history. However, tequila did not achieve its prominence until after 1821 when México attained independence, and Spanish products were more difficult to obtain.

By the middle of the 19th century Cuervo’s fields had more than three million agave plants. By 1880, Cuervo was annually selling 10,000 barrels of its tequila in Guadalajara alone. Today, Cuervo is the largest manufacturer of tequila, with a huge export market. Other distilleries established during the 19th-century that are still flourishing today include Tequila Herradura and La Preservancia Sauza."

[from http://www.loscabosguide.com/tequila/tequila-history.htm]

No, not Spike as Scrappy. No one as Scrappy. (Scrappy needs to be put down. Puppy power, indeed!)

Gee, and here I had pictured myself with a blue collar.

They did a computer visual of my heart reading during a stress test. That was cool. I don't recall any sound, but I'd like to think it sounds like a twin ion engine.