Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can’t eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.
If you can’t eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.
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Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can’t eat it or play with it, Just pee on it and walk away. The wedding pictures are up and located in the gallery.. the link below will take you there. scott Ok everyone… here is where the wedding will be held. You should be able to get driving directions from just about anywhere to here through google maps. Just follow this link. Wedding Location After clicking on the link you will see a map with a blue marker on it. The marker is where the church is. You can click on the marker and it will bring up a box that one of the features is to get directions to it. Please use that to get driving directions. If you are still having problems please give me a call at 843-465-6555 Just read a saying i really liked by an retired cop that had been a cop for 27 years. He was commenting that he didn’t support the new HR45 bill ( Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009) for gun control and went on to quote what he said was an old saying. “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” I personally know how true this is.. I was in the middle of the city… I have added a new cooking section to the website where I am posting some of my recipies and or ones from other people that I like and use. You can find the cooking link at the top of the site and then the subpages with recipies on them to the right once your at the main cooking page. I must say that in the last year or so I have come to have a lot of problems with the pricing of books in general. The retailers and publishers have a lot to answer for. I have just gone along with everyone else in assuming that it just cost a lot of money to publish physical books and ship them to the store etc and then the store needs to make a decent profit to pay for their employees and floor space. In the last year though as digital editions of books have started to come out the prices in general aren’t reflecting any savings to the end purchaser. I leaves me wondering at the truth of statements made by publishers as to why they charge as much as they do for books. If we are no longer paying for the printing, the physical paper, the shipping and the retail floorspace and salaries of the sales people then what are we paying for. In the case of authors it is fairly criminal how little they get per book. One author I spoke with was getting royalties of only about 3% and in my opinion getting ripped off royally. Amazon right now is selling their books at around 30 dollars a copy and they are getting about 1 dollar per copy. If they published their own digital edition through amazon it could sell for half the cost and still get 5.25 a copy.. a 500% increase in profits. Or they could setup their own website and self publish from it using paypal and keep all the profits minus fairly minor expenses. It could published in PDF with the file locked to keep it from being easily copied. The simplest method would be to just have a link on the website that took you to paypal for payment and when the author got an email showing receipt of payment they could email to the purchaser. A little more difficult up front would be to set it up so that when they paid, it redirected them to a download page. As to loosing revenue doing this because it would be possible for people to give copies of the book away without paying for them. Well that is true. However it is not the problem you might think. Baen as a publisher has sold and given away full unencrypted copies of all the books they publish, in digital format, for years now and according to them it has not hurt sales. They say it has actually increased sales overall. I recently purchased a 48 foot reefer trailer (an insulated trailer pulled behind an eighteen wheeler.) it is 48 feet long and 8 feet wide outside dimensions and 7 feet 4 inches by 47 feet 6 inches or so on the inside with about 336 sq feet of floor space. Now you might ask, “why would you want a huge trailer like that?” Ahh.. therin lies the story.. I have lots and lots and lots of books. My best estimate as to how many is around 10,000. I have only cataloged just over 4500 of them so far. That many books weigh a lot. We are talking tons of weight. My house after years of supporting that weight is complaining. It is starting to sink on its foundation piers. Not a lot yet but enough that some of the doors are starting to go out of alignment. It’s time to get the books out of the house. Well, I don’t just want to box them up and store them. I like reading my books. So what I need is a library of my own. I could build a small building and put them in it, but there is a problem. I plan on selling my house in the next few years. I would prefer not having to spend all that money on a building I leave behind and also on having to pack all those books up and move them and then unpack them… Trust me I have done this before.. it is a lot!!! of work. We took Valkyr (a Downeaster 38, Mast head sloop cutter rig) out a couple of Sundays ago. It was supposed to be Angela, Zsanic, Jay, Eva, Barbara and me on the boat but a few days before we were scheduled to go out Angela found out she had to work. When she did she offered to let me captain the boat and take everyone out anyways. To be honest I have several people that have made similar offers of letting me take out their boats and I never have felt comfortable being responsible for their boats. Up till now I have always just said thank you for the offer but never taken them up on it. However, in this case, there were a lot of people looking forward to going out on Valkyr and it would be the only chance Eva would have to go sailing before she went back home to Slovakia. I have probably sailed as crew on Valkyr more than just about any other boat other than my own so I am very comfortable with how she handles and sails. The next positive is that Jay was going to be onboard and I knew that I had a very experienced boater and sailor to give a hand if I needed it. I used to get practical sailor magazine up until I had some issues with my subscription. When I tried to contact them about it I got no response at all. Not a yes, no or maybe. Just silence. So I quit renewing. I received two promotional offers to renew today in email and it just struck me wrong so I felt motivated to send them an email back. Dear Practical Sailor, I had quit renewing my subscription some time ago and I don’t intend to renew now. After the last time I renewed and then found out that it wasn’t a special renewal price but just a partial renewal I was very upset. Also I don’t really believe your renew now and get the book of product reviews. Some how the book of product reviews never quite made it to my mailbox. I did contact you about those issues at the time but I guess my business was not that important as you never bothered to respond to my inquiries. We went sailing today from Valkyr’s new home. What a difference a face dock on the the ICW makes from being buried deep in a marina. Leaving is just a matter of pulling away from the dock. No backing and carefully missing the other boats in their slips or worrying about the current carrying you into them etc.. It also is really nice to sit on deck looking at the unobstructed view of the marsh across the waterway and watch the sun come up. Surprisingly though not as long a haul to the ocean as from little river it was still a bit of a ride as the wind was on the nose most of the way to the inlet. On the final turn out the inlet we raised sails and sailed out. Winds were light so we had a long slow sail straight out till about 3:00 pm and then headed back. We had two large freighters pass us on the way in as they came out the Cape Fear Inlet. The first one did a bit to freak us out as they were on our port side approaching and wanted to cross bows with us so they could pass on our starboard. We went ahead and did as they asked and all passed safely but it was kinda weird that they wanted to do that. I got to help Angela and Zsanic take Valkyr to her new home up in Southport. It’s sad that they are now more than a hour away but I have to say that the new digs are 1000 percent better. Valkyr now has a marsh view the a strong breeze almost all the time. You can come out and sit on deck in the morning with your coffee or hot chocolate (poisen of choice) and watch the fishing boats and private boats heading for Bald Head Island or Oak Island heading out while the sun comes up. The trip up was a repeat of my last trip up on La Bon Vie. No wind and motoring the whole way. Not much to say about it. The trip was uneventfull and safe which is the important thing. We left the dock in little river about 10am and got to the dock in Southport about 4ish i think. After a lazy morning Orin decided we were going to motor back down the waterway to Little River. We spent a fairly quiet and uneventfull day on the water. Maybe 6 hours travel time. |
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