Richard Moore Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 ...because our local forecast isn't looking so good for Friday the 21st and beyond. Click to Enlarge 27.09 KB Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Yep, I've wrapped my Mariners baseball cap in aluminum foil to reflect all of that excess heat. I figure I'll be the only one left around here who doesn't get fried. [:-graduat ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlord Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 I'm keeping my tee time for Friday just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 The Crown Prince has only two days left to get that money transferred into my bank acct. I responded to all three Princes. Seems like one of them would hire me as their personal assistant. I stopped with the appointment nonsense couple of weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Here in china, I'm an international date line/one day ahead of you guys. Technically, I should be going first. I'll let you know what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben H Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish! The best thing I've read in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Meiland Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Richard, where's your slip, and where are the keys? I'm going to be down there Saturday anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Here in china, I'm an international date line/one day ahead of you guys. Technically, I should be going first. I'll let you know what happens. Kurt, If you are killed or drown or a building falls on you, please send us an email so we can delete you from the board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 The 21st is my younger brother's birthday. I told him to watch the sky that day for a huge fireworks I'd ordered up for him. He's not amused. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 the news ain't good. back to the appt book! Click to Enlarge 78.69 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 So Kurt should be through most of the day in China, if it's still there. If he hasn't posted soon you may want to prepare yourselves. [:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 So Kurt should be through most of the day in China, if it's still there. If he hasn't posted soon you may want to prepare yourselves. [:-party] Kurt's got to use the Chinese calendar, so he's going to be off by a month or two. It is still Thursday in Toronto, and that is the Center of the Universe, don't ya know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Kurt will likely just cool his jets for a bit of time before he provides any updates ... just to give all of us heartburn and/or any other anxiety!! [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericwlewis Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 GOOD NEWS! Kurt is currently online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 I'm still here, and so is the rest of China. Since the Chinese are hugely into signifiers, portents, magic numbers, and all manner of superstitious crap, you can imagine it's a topic over here. The government is rounding up and arresting hundreds of people that are disturbing the peace by announcing end of the world from makeshift stages. I watched a bunch of plains clothes goons swarm some folks yesterday at the site of the Wuchang uprising. The police state does not tolerate disharmony. We, as a profession, are constantly involved in safety. Navigating urban China is somewhere at the opposite end of the safety scale, as we envision it. Take, for example, a brief shopping trip to a new development zone. The pace of change is so fast, the tear down while rebuilding phenomenon is taken to it's greatest extreme. I was in Optical Valley (a huge, newish, retail and business sector in Wuchang) walking down a sidewalk that was literally getting torn out from under me while they were building another one next to it. Imagine a few thousand people, walking down a retail street....a cubic yard bucket hoe (that's a big ass machine) swinging it's load inches from us pedestrians, a hydraulic hammer blasting away inches from our feet, a chunk of concrete literally gets dragged out when I'm standing on it, I jump back, the walk ends, we're all funneled into a dirt ditch strewn with rebar, then back onto a cardboard walkway, then funneled out into the ****ing main street artery with 4 lanes of trucks and cabs blowing by at speed inches from our elbows....then back through a fence and onto another mud ditch, back to busted up concrete, then relative calm as we regain actual pavement...and no one misses a step or even makes the slightest sign of recognition that anything strange is happening. The mass of pedestrians (and you've never experienced a mass of pedestrians until you've been in a Chinese city) stagger around a massive pile of concrete, building materials, dirt hangs in the air, filth, extreme high decibel construction sounds everywhere, step over old rebar stacked in heaps, push through those plastic hanging door air barriers.....and suddenly we're in a Nieman-Marcus like lobby, spotless clean, saccharine Chinese pop music playing, uniformed smiling cosmetics salespeople pushing Estee Lauder at us. The place is jammed with people buying all that stupid shit. Outside, total chaos and danger....inside, N. Michigan Ave. on Saturday before Christmas. It's like Bladerunner meets the Robb Report, or some similar clash of barbarism and "luxury". It's nuts. Heading to Yunnan next week if the world continues. My bet is it will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 "...Imagine a few thousand people, walking down a retail street....a cubic yard bucket hoe (that's a big ass machine) swinging it's load inches from us pedestrians, a hydraulic hammer blasting away inches from our feet, a chunk of concrete literally gets dragged out when I'm standing on it, I jump back, the walk ends, we're all funneled into a dirt ditch strewn with rebar, then back onto a cardboard walkway, then funneled out into the ****ing main street artery with 4 lanes of trucks and cabs blowing by at speed inches from our elbows....then back through a fence and onto another mud ditch, back to busted up concrete, then relative calm as we regain actual pavement...and no one misses a step or even makes the slightest sign of recognition that anything strange is happening...." Dig it, Kurt. I appreciate the commentary. It is like this place on steroids. "Free market" run amok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 OK, It's now officially the 21st on the east coast of CONUS. Hey, you guys still there are all you all racing around in Lincoln town cars trying to jump 200 ft. fissures? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted December 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Even if I happen to somehow survive the 21st, there still remains my other paranoia...collisions with very large tankers, container ships, submarines, etc, etc. Fortunately, I have found and ordered a book on that very subject. How To Avoid Huge Ships At $1,585.96, it seemed a tad expensive at first glance. However, please take the time to read the many glowing reviews. It's clear that Cap'n John W. Trimmer has penned a life altering manuscript. I look forward to receiving and reading this tome and, in future, will not leave port (or starboard?) without it. Squirrel!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 This aluminum foil wrapping on my cap is starting to make my scalp itch. I wonder if I'm allergic to aluminum? No explosions yet; not even a measly little temblor. Man, what a gyp! ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Fabry Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 At $1,585.96, it seemed a tad expensive at first glance. plus $3.99 shipping. Customers who viewed the item also viewed on Amazon- a gallon of milk and Bic Stic pens. You mariners are an odd lot indeed. Who buys milk on Amazon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottpat Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Tennessee is still here! Yea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 And only in "paperback" ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 At $1,585.96, it seemed a tad expensive at first glance. plus $3.99 shipping. Customers who viewed the item also viewed on Amazon- a gallon of milk and Bic Stic pens. You mariners are an odd lot indeed. Who buys milk on Amazon? The used paperbacks are only 189.99. Pages missing? Did somebody forget to bring TP? We're still here, but I did manage to sell my boat. I have the skills to build a raft if I have to. BTW, the bow wave from a big ship will push a raft out of the way. We'll be safer on a raft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 ...because our local forecast isn't looking so good for Friday the 21st and beyond. Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish! Click to Enlarge 91.28 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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