Gramercy Park

Gramercy Park is a main setting in Mallory's Oracle an excellent mystery I am currently reading. It's a private park where dwellings come with a key to the private park. Sounds sort of Grosse Pointish to me!

Wolf buries Packers

Ron Wolf speaks truth...the Packers have a lot of 'NFL Europe' Players. Question is how'd they get there? Mike Sherman as GM. Does this mean Sherman goes? No, as Sherman the coach keeps the team in games, disciplined and prepared.

Next Man Up so to speak is Ted Thompson. Can he do what Wolf did...get a good coach talent?

Back to Paper Movement- Been There

I've always been a paper. Had a brief fling with an early Palm Pilot late in the last millenium but it didn't work out. Communication Nation: Why techies are leading the back-to-paper movement

Currently I use Moleskine notebooks as many others do. Think of it this way- if paper was a new technology it would be considered a breakthrough!

Horton loses man on decisive play

Bad teams- and the Packers are one- have things like this happen: everybody but one man plays man to man. One guy plays zone lets a receiver go and the other team sets up a game winning field goal. You are what you are.

The economy

GM Media Online

GM makes the economy 30,000 more jobs post industrial.

Muskegon's past is shown by the camoflogued LST which used to transport cars as the Highway 16. The white vessel in the middle is the Port City Princess which gives sight seeing tour. Farthest away is the Paul Townsend a cement carrier built in 1945.

Waterfront Pix

Front to back: World War II LST, present day tour boat and Great Lakes Cement Ship.

A barge is not a barge...

until it sinks... and this one has at the Mart Dock in downtown Muskegon.

Viewed the Movie Prime

Universal Pictures: Prime.

A good not great movie. The plot is semi simplistic and takes to long to get there. The ending is not the sappy one it could have been.

Good performance by Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman acts and looks well.

Thieves of Mercy-Mini Review

Thieves of Mercy

Maine's James L. Nelson a long time favorite. His latest Thieves of Mercy his 2nd on the Civil War and it's naval aspects from the Confederate Navy's POV mainly. Like a steam ship 'gettin up steam' Thieves is a slow starter. However, from the point in the books from a rare chase scenes set on Virginia river's and conducted on small sailing boats the tempo rises and keeps on satisfactoraly. There is a particulars funny epilogue.

Minor E Bay Win

eBay: 2 Martha Grimes books mystery fiction novel books (item 8353400683 end time Nov-20-05 17:59:05 PST)

I'm in a major mystery mode lately.

Border Collie Book

As someone who own's a Border Collie I'm partial to books about Border Collie's. Here's an old one I stumbled across A Shepherd's Life.

Transat Jacques Vabre- Skandia Update

Transat Jacques Vabre

Sill and Skandia are gainers, while Virbac and Pro-Form losers. Under 60 miles until the 1st boat finishes.

Skandia Update

Cayard sees Negative Becoming Positive

Cayard Sailing Inc -The Damage to The Black Pearl-Cascais

The choice is to airlift to Cape Town, skipping Leg 1. As the race is on points and not time this is possible and perhaps a good choice.

How lame would it be if a boat won an around the world race w/o sailing a 6,000 mile plus leg!

Gimme solo sailors any day!

Transat Jacques Vabre

With 100 miles to go Virbac up 15 miles on Sill. Virbac also is 4.4 knots faster.

Farther back just 2 mile seperate Skandia and Pro-Form with Skandia .1 knots faster.

Return to Blogging

From Lifehacker:

Blog Instead of Email - I used to send out life update emails to my mom and pop and others who give a crap about me but no more. It saves more time and keeps a record for my great grand kids later on if I blog my stuff. Granted I am not a faithful blogger but we are working on that.


I too have sent occasional emails, but not recently. I can't say I am a faithful blogger but will try. Watch this space.