Code Buster

One of my professors in undergrad was the son of a code-breaker at Bletchly Park.  He taught a course called "Lost Languages and Decipherment," which I have now copied to teach for myself.  This stuff is facinating.  If you're bored and want to try your hand, I suggest the Voynich Manuscript!

Even in the village, we have a neat level of rank, code here, and I can figure out the control messengers..some of it is clever boredom ie., the word migraine was annoyingly repeated ...;;. then there is one who discriminates in undertone way...it does not go un-notice...instead of repeated it ....recommend diversity education curriculum becasue changing minds starts young..;...bringing up lurkers...*control.....but """n" all, hitting the send bottom more than 4 times...shows: can everyone see  my neat message...yea, we all learn together our opinions and views.... and tone...of the writers...so everyone is eyeing.... makes it alot of fun-filled learning experience... ; - )  ...I am semi recovered from my daugters...mystery airport excursion; its' being handled by an attorney..."you too can never be too careful.... Paolos,
"I indeed lost my Spectacles....!"  that video with Jethro Tull reminds me...and I actualy said this to a friend, a famous writer, you know.... when times get tough..trying to find a cure for the vapors.... I wonder aimlessly, around this big Frank loyld Wright-styled house, calming my mind looking through old books..and such, my feelings are such that... I feel like......despair.....OK,... it is like missing a fine pair of old leather shoes....and how odd you just can't find them...and their your favorite double AA's....So i am working on finding another pair  double AA;s plus a pair of Spectacles...............too cute...how on earth, do you find these videos!I am enjoying all the videos..because that is a new realm for me....Stoney, i enjoy your thought-out conversations/opionions, too.... Hazel, I liked your Goldfish comment...too..I was still in a tempid mood the following day of a unwelcomed event,.from overseas..... and in & out of the house doing errands...the attorney sister is on the case for the stripsearch...%^*)_**A little ditty:  i remember words mean different ideas; the word Home/house;  Home means inside your place...House means outside your place...so invite people to  your home...this winter or they will hang-out outside....in the cold.....if you say house......

 
 
 
 
note to self
do not drink green tea, or other caffeinated beverages after 3pm.

SAJ JOHNSON....................that's really fascinating...............
 
MISS BLUE..............your comment is noted & noticed...............
 
VIOLET ROSE...................are you SI LADY????????????????
 
Loverly day to all!

Bebe ~ I was about to ask the same thing:  Violet Rose ARE you Sea Island Lady?  Miss Blue ~ Same note to myself but I seem to forget it now and then.....they lied when they said green tea is naturally decaffeinated.  SAJJ ~ What an interesting idea....when my mind is less muddled (I need a code breaker to sort it out sometimes.) I'll give it a look.     And of course, Good Morning to All.

VIOLET ROSE repeated posts are known as "Bert-ing" here, as Bert, a high ranked member of the Village, had issues with his computer. It generally is a technological issue and not a statement.

Hi Village....my ski plans foiled again....it is raining ...the local weather ;changed dramtically from probably it will rain in the afternoon...so in the mountains it usually would be snow....I've been up since 5:OO o,clock reading my Newspapers....they reduce 70% funding to the GoWild programs for  our PAstate environment programs...and read sad news about PennStatesports news...i won't even comment on because the news is so sad.....so i checked the eye...notes and at this time we have a downpour; and of course,cancelled my plans...Give me some space for making mistakes on my comments...i am still a beginner in writing my opinions...i am not thinking them out as clearly as i should; i am writing freely....freeform....trying to be on target...hopefully helpful....and hoping i learn something from this style of communicating...honestly, it scares me to bits...but i am trying...i came on board to the eye way back when it started and i used the name Violet Rose, so i will change around a little because i like changing pics and utilizing the format, freedom to do things differently...change is good...yes....it might not seem it, but i am trying to fit in...My interests are especially with the children grown-up..and having more time...this village takes alot of energy and keeping up with ..Fabric and the fashion styles in Pertermanscatalog and design of past patterns...especially Victorian.....Water....i love swimming....ocean...the "sea and me" and anything associated with water...first attraction to the eye. ..wonderful horses..very much...enjoy those topics....i like cooking and entertainment....Heaven sakes, I am a theatre director....kinda of semi-retired..now but i have put together so many fundraisers get togethers and venues...community gal....volunteer....worked in many hospitals.as a Dietitiandifferent life experiences...I like to Rhyme...sometimes find it interesting .to figure out politics...Foremost, I am still learning...see that part never stops i still want to learn...i want to see...and i have some common work, social, and concerns as you, too...so if i stay on...it is a big effort..i am trying to be engaged....this cyber space writing is fun but sometimes uncomfortable...trying to stay on topic with that said...i am pressing the send button!

All this code stuff is an enigma to me.
I remember my brothers and I going through a phase of writing coded notes to one another, or notes in invisible ink. I guess any code is breakable - my life is full of passwords and pin numbers, most of which I can't remember. Ha ha! Try telling "Them" you do not have a cell phone. Unbelievable.

Violet Rose~ Nobody will object to a lovely ramblin' rose flowering in the Village. Freeform 'till your heart is content.

Bebe, Andy, I too had wondered the same thing about Violet Rose. Thanks for confirming SIL. Isn't it interesting that we may have a "style" without realising. I think the posters I might fk d easy to recognise would be KSS, Ivan, Lynn, bebe, RY, PL, Bert, Moose, SIL  of course, P4...what do you think?

Chef Deb ~ We had a similar experience in a construction where I worked.  A good friend of the owner of another company seemingly decamped to us.  We found that he was indeed passing along what our estimates were so that his friend could bid lower,  We caught on and started leaving key things out as well as false estimates in the file.  Horrible, horrible time to have this person there and not call him on it.....that must have been a terrible time for you as well when you question your judgement and feel personally attacked.  Hopefully it didn't change your outlook in general; sometimes those things do.
 
Violet Rose ~ There is another poster who writes as you do, interesting, full of good ideas and worth reading.  Second what Hazel said.
 
Hazel ~ My and friends and I did the same and of course we could never figure out what was being said.  I can't figure out the shorthand used for text in emails and other postings.  The emoticons, other than smileys, leave me baffled....do I say "thank you" or "bug off"?

Mr. Beurling from what little I have read was like many geniuses and certainly most savants who operate in their brilliance with limited social skills. Often the greater societies benefit from their gifts but their individual lives are wrought with difficulties and detachment. Big Bang Theory as a pop culture example. The well adjusted B & C students my teacher wife tries to tell the parents who want their kids to be special are just "perfectly" happy and be prepared if your child is gifted for lifestyle adjustments. After the code breaking is over there is a normal life to try to live but like in A Beautiful Mind (Great Film) we have so much to learn about the human mind and behavior. Meanwhile I use my Apple products & reap the rewards of OPI (Other People's Intelligence)

ANDY--isn't it awful? having caught her redhanded and she "spilled" immediately perhaps made it a bit easier. But yes, it was creepy and did make me much more wary in hiring practices. Having to learn NOT to go with your gut about people is not a happy lesson, but I'm laughing because there are some who would say I didn't learn the lesson, surrounded by the eclectic people that I am!!

Betrayal is not an easy code to stomach, thats for sure.

I read something recently about Bee Codes. Seems honey bees do a dance at the hive entrance to give other bees directions as to where the nectar and pollen is to be found. Clever stuff.

I've never been any good at codes or puzzles.  And Chef Deb, I can see myself doing something like what happened to you--setting up a secret code and then forgetting the key. I often outsmart myself in that way. A couple years ago, we remodeled our guest room--everything had to be removed to replaster and repaint the walls.  While I was packing stuff away, there was a special tray I had on the d resser, a pretty navy blue plate with rabbits dancing on it. It was a favorite, so I wanted to put it in a special place.  Well, after I finished painting and was ready to put everything back, I had no idea where I had put my favorite plate!  I never truly remembered, but I did find it about 6 months later.

SAJJ

We discussed the Voynich Manuscript here at the eYe 15 February 2011. You might want to do a rewind and take a look.

http://www.petermanseye.com/curiosities/notables-gossip/5961-world-s-greatest-riddle

..."poleeol.qokeol.qokchod.chody.cthom

yshol.tor.sheor.qotchor.qoky.darala

 dair.shkeeo.s.sary.okor.ykarshy.lkaldy..."

F1gur471v3ly 5p34k1ng

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53RV35 7O PR0V3
H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
4U70M471C4LLY
W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
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Paolos ~ Amazing isn't it?  Though I'm wondering about the "certain people"...what does that say about us :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JxpOhBQeNI&feature=plcp&context=C31d0da6UDOEgsToPDskL_L2SQMGcDd_gbS4EFxqT5

See if you can break this code and tell me who's in the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjbfeFhL7iM&feature=plcp&context=C3974f53UDOEgsToPDskJrdbO1ntVKr3m5f-Pr5zc8

Just because I can...

Also, here is a code the FBI is trying to crack, and has asked the public for help:http://forms.fbi.gov/code ;

Violet Rose ~ ...a
rose...by any other name would smell as sweet. I had both an Aunt Violet
and an Aunt Rose, both sweet ladies.

Andy ~ My penultimate daughter
has vision issues, her eyes do not focus properly, which makes reading difficult
for her.  I think it would be a challenge for her. The difficulty level can be
increased by changing fonts or even better, using roman numerals.

KYC ~  Bellissima!

I've got a secret code I need help with.....

Women.

paolos ~ should have known you'd be the first to get it...

KYC ~ She is a beauty.  As Ivan would say, Good on You.

Ummgawa ~ Ask Stoney.  If you need help with taxes, good luck.

SAJJ

The second code is a recipe for kibbe.....

Hey Miss Blue- Elvis singing Gospel. Pure Velvet.

KC- man, that is out there. (your videos I mean)

Ummgawa ~ thanks...first attempts...hopefully they will get better and a bit more polished.

Miss Blue: mmm!  Thanks for the idea for dinner.

OMG

Talk about code....

British billionaire Richard Branson, Al Gore and a herd of other climate shills are taking a private cruise to Antartica.

Guests include climatologists James Hansen of NASA and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( on leave from their jobs of course  ; )...they are entitled).

To quote Mr  Branson, We're going on a boat organised by Al Gore to learn as much as we can from scientists and experts about where we are in the worrying cycle of Global Warming."

CYCLE...he actually used the term CYCLE !

Is that code for this is all part of being inhabitants of an ever-changing planet that from time to time will get warmer and then hotter whether convenient or not?

Suggested reading as follows:

http://www.accuweather.com/en/home-garden-articles/earth-and-you/scientists-celebrities-to-crui/60600

and....

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Miss Blue ~ maybe their skipper will be Italian...oooo...that wasn't very PC now was it.

Miss Blue, of course it is a cycle. The question is what is causing the cycle?  KYC, you're naughty!

We do not know...
the earth has been much warmer and has been much colder than it is today MANY times. The climate will change, sometimes very abruptly, for example the Younger Dryas period and The Little Ice Age.
 
 
 
Gotta head to class. I'll rejoin later this evening.

Hazel Leeze ....here's a code...for life...
 Bee Life..or The Official Bee Code....I....put it all together, after readin up with books on the Honey Bee..we could help ourselves out following their lifestyle...
 Wisdom - On-going toil and labor & aiming instinct for survival Virtues - True of the maternal Queen; admirable labors Policy - The Honey Bee knows instinctive job tasks at hand Law - Recognizes order, teamwork, & call to duty Selfless --Courage defined by no known useless regrets; sharing Provider - Hive produces 120 lbs. honey = 600,000 x,s >wt. of one Honey Bee Honey-maker - Treasure chest fulls of  honey, pollen, & bee glue Construction builders - Luxury city beeswax storehouses by Violet Rose....Buzzzzz  Thanks for the couple of Thumbs up from the Village!
  

We don't know, but some are trying to find out...

Violet--I love bees. Somehow, I don't think we humans would embrace the lifestyle or codes of bees.  Way too regemented.  We demand personal freedom.

V I O L E T R O S E = S S I 2 and that is code for same style if not same person.

No use of codes here, unless, like Hazel says, the ones with user name and passwords that let us into the sites we like to frequent. Over and out here on the day of birth at the lovely white sand beach of Anna Maria Island, FL.

I feel like I did when I walked into the wrong class in college, and didn't figure it out until the TA handed me a hourly exam.  I took one look at it, it was Greek literally and figuratively, and not the class I belonged in, not by a long shot.  The only difference here is that I know some of the faces, otherwise, it's very much the same feeling.   

Paolos:  Are you with the CIA?  If it's one of those "if I tell you I have to kill you" please don't.  But really, are you a spook?  I think I"m just kidding.  Also I can read it.  And I am thinking of '17' .  I can't get the The Manchurian Candidate  out of my mind.  For some reason.

ummy ~
Works for me:

http://youtu.be/GcdyC8L_U7A

More about that later.

 DRONE 

As a noun

the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey. a remote control mechanism,

as a radio-controlled airplane or boat.

a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer.

a drudge.

As a verb

to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.

to speak in a monotonous tone.

to proceed in a dull, monotonous manner (usually followed by on ): The meeting droned on for hours.

Me thinks I will not be a bee and let it be....for now ; )

 
 
Stoney
I'll see you and raise you.....
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDFgcoP9tW0

KYC-enjoyed your videos....keep having fun with them & be sure to share!

IMARJORIE thanks for commiserations on the code memory lapse!

My wee brain can't handle codes--even pig-Latin is a strain. (I still shake my head at that day in the Village!)   There is a distinct echo of IdahoProducer and...can't remember her name..older woman (she said), lots of tales of WWII, spent time in every year in Africa.....Anyway, I sometimes feel like those two are being channeled.   

A magician may never tell his secrets, but a magician's six year old assistant is never bound by such secrecy. I became aware of secret notes in first grade.

David Nickel was the cutest boy in school. He had a cast on his right arm. He told me that during the past summer he fell out of a tree. I suppose his cast added to his allure. Cute and adventurous…surely the ingredients for love.

After school my brother, a budding chemist told me about lemon juice notes. On a white piece of paper, I could write anything with the juice and no one could see my writing once it dried; unless they knew the secret.

The next day, I passed my blank looking note to David, hoping he knew the secret. "Do you love me?" My note read, and underneath it were two boxes "yes" and "no." Check one. The waiting was awful. Did David know if he ran a match just below the paper's surface, the lemon juice words would turn brown and readable? I'll never know if he knew the match secret or made a paper airplane out of my note and flew it out the window.

Where was Beurling when I needed him?

PS- I suppose it was not meant to be...Penny Nickel...well you see...

Carol:  I know who you mean.  I was thinking the same thing, about that older woman.  Could be. 

Penny Nickel.  I like that!  There's a woman in town here whose last name is "Docter".  She's a nurse.  At work - yes - she's called Nurse Docter. 

ChefDeb et.al. ~ here's another one still piping hot...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feo4IEYIOR4&feature=plcp&context=C31d0da6UDOEgsToPDskL_L2SQMGcDd_gbS4EFxqT5

I had a man that once worked for me that started going into my office when I was out and get phone numbers and names of companies which I did business . After ai fo0und out I simply left phoney phoney numbers and make believe companies scattered on my desk as was usual. (A clean desk is the sigh of a sick mind )After a while he found he was doinf little or no business because he had slowed down or stopped contacing his clients because he figured mine were more financally rewarding, espically with some of the names I made up for the fake comanies that sounded impressive. After a while he changed jobs and professions. Saved me from fireing him and did add a little amusement to the work day.

I had a man that once worked for me that started going into my office when I was out and get phone numbers and names of companies which I did business . After ai fo0und out I simply left phoney phoney numbers and make believe companies scattered on my desk as was usual. (A clean desk is the sigh of a sick mind )After a while he found he was doinf little or no business because he had slowed down or stopped contacing his clients because he figured mine were more financally rewarding, espically with some of the names I made up for the fake comanies that sounded impressive. After a while he changed jobs and professions. Saved me from fireing him and did add a little amusement to the work day.

Stoney & Miss Blue
~

I am in,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dael4sb42nI

How ever did we get from Otis to "she be my
B*****" or my "Ho" all in one or two generations?

Miss Park ~ I am the son of
spook.

Mooseloop....Happy birthday ....and i posted a pic of the orange peach ball that you get to enjoy down south....Anna Maria...i have never been there, but i am going for and with my college age children for Spring break, the catalog sits next to  my laptop...white beaches...enticing....the front cover of the magazine highlights: "Get soaked, go wild, explore these fun family adventures...." here is some of our iterniery..Captain Kims, Segway by the Sea, Beach Horses;sarasotaopera;Marvista Dockside Restaurant & Pub ;staying at Bridgewalk and Lakewood Ranch......Segways, saw action videos of casualities, from the children,  not really for me...the horses riding..on the ocean how refresh... 1 C4N R34D P40L05 M3554G3!   I posted some community pics...hurry to post peach ball!   

CAROL, PARK...Fay! And yes!! same thought, only with adjusted meds perhaps..

in other words, basically impervious to the rest of us and what we're talking about. I'm blaming my bitchitude on the low pressure system since I am now completeley off topic, but Great Minds, etc.

ChefDeb ~ I have trouble recalling where I keep
my passwords, much less the password. 

Miss Penn ~  the Code Buster...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLsIXZdFeDw

I love Yul Brynner!  Thanks Stoney.  I did see Lou Diamond Philips do this on Broadway. Not too badly either.
 
But really, we women are not all that hard to figure out, are we?

Carol, the older woman with the compelling stories about WWII was Fay something, Gruenwold?  Something like that. 

I see Deb already remembered her name. 
 
Anyway, like I said before, I don't know much about codes. Let's talk about food.

O! Buster Keaton! Now I want to watch them all...

Park--it just came to me:  Fay!   I knew if I waited long enough.....

Fay is in Tanzania visiting her little friends.

KC ~ Re: your 12:02 -- heh heh heh
 
I margorie ~ Iagree -- I know a lot about food. 
 
Two days of an Elvis sighting of sorts; I'm a happy camper.
 
Paolos ~ Does Braille help your daughter or not quite that bad? 

That's right.  She is in Tanzania.  But perhaps there is internet there now?

Buster made his best movie in Cabbage Center.

It went like this: "Well, if you're working down here, I'll just go up and clean the bathroom floor and all and we'll be ready.
Later: "If you cleaned the floor, where's the mop and the bucket?"
"Didn't need them, just filled the sink with warm water and detergent and cleaned the floor with paper towels."
"Paper towels you say?"
"Oh yeah and got the WC and the tub while I was at it too."
"How about the sink?" she wondered.
"That's the beauty part, with all that soap and water, the sink pretty much took care of itself… you could eat off of anything up there - really and if you were thinking about getting naked and thanking me, I'll have to ask you to try to think about something else until the plumber leaves."

That's one of the great things about women of the opposite gender, sometimes they are just so blown away by the humble magnificence of our practical genius that they  have to call a friend and talk about it: "You will not believe this one."
I have always been too modest to hang around and bask in the details.

Andy ~ Her vision is fine. I am sure you know well the story of
Rachel and Leah. As I understand it, english translations are in conflict about
the description of Leah's eyes.  I have heard it told that she was wild eyed, I
have heard it told that her eyes were dazzling.  We named our daughter Leah to
tempt fate and this is what happened. She has bright and beautiful eyes, some
would say dazzling, and she can roll them around in her sockets,
one independently of the other, some might say wild-eyed.  It is more comical to
watch than it is disconcerting, yet it contributes to her inability to focus
when reading or writing. She is presently working her way through a
strengthening program, which we are told will restore her focus.


 
Stoney ~ Is it any wonder that she loves you, loves you,
loves you?

as do we all...

paolos ~
Nice link and I will refer her to you when I need support.

If God had been on his toes, he could have done everyone a service by calling home Joe Paterno about three months ago.
Just think...

You guys have so much fun during the day....................I am jealous.................
 
MISS BLUE...........a.k.a. Divine MB................your 1:22 is what panty shields were invented for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravissima.........................
 
STONEY...........................wunnerful, wunnerful, wunnerful............................
 
PENN.................How could you not resist a tree climber w/ a cast? Hands down he was the foxiest little 6 year old out there......................
 
 

Miss Blue ~ Why, pray tell would
scientists go to Antarctica in summer to discover the effects of global
warming?  It would make more sense to stay for a year or twenty. How many hours
of data will they need to collect to understand their worrying cycle?  What the
hell is a worrying cycle?
How is it an entire generation can throw away
hundreds of years of science involving the serious study of sunspots, solar
flares, solar winds, volcanic activity, el Niño, la Niña, jet streams and give
it all the boot based on some crackpot theory and
a picture book by a man who flunked his college chemistry classes?  I will stop
now lest others attribute these questions to
elstevomartinning.

Great story, Stoney.  As usual.  I love the Stoney at Home with Her stories, in particular.  I'll never forget one about you and she and one other driving home from someplace far away, and she and the other were trying to talk in the backseat, but you had the radio on so loud they couldn't converse.  And son on.  Later, you found that she warmed your side of the bed....I so remember thinking 'Stoney you are a lucky man because I wouldn't have done that, you'd made a particularly snotty remark to Herself and the other, and really, you got lucky.  In the sense that she left the bedroom door unlocked, and also warmed your side of the bed...............I was so annoyed with you myself for about 5 minutes I began a PM to you, but I'm the one with fiery first reactions which flame up and die off within the space of well, 5 minutes in your case - you you never got the PM.  Lucky you.  Lucky me.....I like how you clean bathrooms, my husband puts an (old) towel on the floor and shuffles around on it, 'washing' the floor as he shuffles.  ....  he never calls the plumber.  I do, after a certain amount of time, I call.  And he saves face.    Women and men, what a couple we make, especially after 40 some years together, as we both know ...THANKS for the 'story' - and yes, it is better to thave them than to looth them.

And SO on.  NOT and son on.  gee whith.

Duvet time. Nos da, dear people.x

Stoney----Modesty becomes you.......

Miss Park ~ I've got stories like
that.  Do you want to hear one? Of course you do.  It goes like
this.
 
Well, golly honey, if you are going to change the
oil in the machine (I always referred to the auto as the machine in those days),
certainly I will fix dinner.  She immediately rings up her best chum Miss T to
tell her that "Well, T, this ought to be a good one HE is going to cook
dinner. On my life,  I bet he can't even find a pot to boil the water." 
Meanwhile I am looking for an apron in the pantry so not to soil my dungarees
with tomato paste.  The ones I find have flowery stuff on them because they look
so nice on her and I always pick up a new one for her whenever I pass by a
Williams and Sonoma on my way to work. I am just that kind of guy.  I think to
myself, "I hope none of my chums drop in while I am wearing this thing" Just
then, who should pop his head in the door but my old pal Norton.  "Hey
Ppppppahahahaha, what are you wearing?" he blurts out as he lets the door close
behind him.  "It's an apron, wise guy," I retort.  "What do you need an apron
for?" he asks, "Are ya gonna change the oil in the machine?"  He doubles over
with laughter. That Norton he thinks he's both clever and funny. Why I have half
a mind to bop him a good one.
 
Yessiree, Miss Park I got a jillion of 'em just
like that one.  Oh, they may be a bit rough around the edges and need some
polishing in the middle but HEY what are editors for anyway?
 
If y'all liked this story and would like to hear
more of them y'all can PM me.  Positive reinforcement only please, because
like all the other gentlemen here,  I am a sensitive sort of fellow. I know I
make this look easy, but it is hard work.
 

Paolos & Ms. Blue ~ Could it be that we are financing these expeditions through Government grants? 

Stoney ~ So true.  What a sad asterisk to have for a live otherwise well-lived.  However a few months wouldn't have done it; it needed to be a few years ago. 

paolos ~
I did try to PM (post mortem) you but was told that I was early but...  not by much.

Bebe....aw shucks, I do what I can.

Paolos, if KYC's fantasy was realized and that group sank,
the ensuing oleaginous sheen would rival that trailing the Exxon Valdez.

Andy, best I can tell is that Mr. Branson is footing the
bill. Of Course any "findings" can then be claimed to be the result of
independent study.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JPIeyBPum0

Stoney ~ I am sorry.  It's been one of those days.  I will try to beehive.

 
Park4 ~
Sure, now you tell about the old towel deal… almost eleven minutes of peon stoop labor completely wasted.
And thank you.

It was 81 degrees here today. Sunny and lovely. I can't see why everyone doesn't come to south Florida!

Had a fabulous birthday dinner at the Beach Bistro! Bruschetta, Caesar salad, Lamb, asparagus, bread pudding, Chardonnay, praline crunch ice cream dessert, and 2 long stem red roses! All in a classy little bistro looking out over the white sands and red sky of sunset int he west. Life is good. Thanks again for all the public and private best wishes for the day of my birth! I feel young.

MOOSE................as well you should! ( I love Rod Stewart's song "Forever Young.") Okay, I am hating you just a tad for being in such a wonderful place, but I will get over that. Enjoy!

Miss Moose from Miss Bebe who woulda if she
coulda if not for being amish
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bbNOPUnyho

Just got back from the Pittsburgh Mills and saw...RedTails it was a wonderful movie with the battle planes "n"  Love story....all, actors great..storyline...action...but i will not give in by telling you about it ..If you get the chance to see it, hope you enjoy it as much as i did...the only minor thing...was they needed to illustrate how freezing cold it is in those bomber red wing airplanes...they all wore the heavy pilot jackets... and heavy cargo pants...but they could of made it real..about.... how cold it is flying in the sky...my Dad was a pilot and my husband...and even though the temperatures on land was in the 80,s after flying...they would wear a  thick wool sweater.....not one mention about weather..or the cold temp...? the other challenge with this village is to keep up with the reading. on the eye posted notes.....i am definitely & will be pretty mobile all day and won't being able to tune in as often as would like..kids started college and work...etc. i have to help everyone with car rides to work and school etc...so it will be impossible for me to keep up with the storyline of the day..Good videos today... Good nite.....

Good news for those who care. Got an email from my publisher saying my CORRECTED book proof will be ready this week. My first proof was a mess, my rep got married turning my finished product over to a neophyte. The result was a stranger unfamiliar with the up to date version hitting the print button.

It's almost finally done for the second time.

Umm- if you can get a full size press sheet of your uncut cover it will make a great framed keepsake and the little bumps in the road will seem like pimples on the metaphorical gnat's ass when you look back on it. Look forward to a signed copy. Got a project in Hotlanta coming up real soon.

Added Turks & Caicos to our Spring Cruise and an extra day in Ft Lauder-dam-dale will have me spending some time at Bahia Mar Yacht Basin (fictional home to the Busted Flush, Travis McGee's twin-dieseled houseboat in those John D. MacDonald novels. I try to trod in the places that shaped me. The code that helps me figure me out is a real brain teaser requiring boat drinks and places alluded to by Moose. Always large bodies of water involved.

CD ~
Small wonder that the world's most delicious mass-market snack is called: Little DEBbie Nutty Bar (wafers with peanut butter).
Fab like you.

Bebe, he was...in his button down oxford shirt and all!

UMMGAWA ~ I know you have me down for a signed copy.  KYC is
going to start bugging you for the movie rights.  He can do it on the
cheap and still give you that Hollywood quality.   His filmography is at 10:10, 10:15 and 14:15.