Clickety—Clack

Happy Saturday morning. Every time I believe that I am traveling at ‘jet’ speed I get knocked back into reality. It’s been less than two weeks since I was in Chattanooga, TN and then with Jason closing the cabin in Canada. Whew!

[working the water line – delivering the new canoe – testing the standby generator – ready for my “walk on the water’]

At about the same time I learned that our newly elected President has nearly completed filling out all the slots in his Cabinet, making a cabin closing seem small potatoes. My hat off to you sir! Since you don’t drink, please share a mug of coffee with me would you.

Friday a week ago Jason and I arrived at our cabin – Northern Comfort. It was 10:45pm and we wanted to quickly unload and climb into our sleeping bags. Minutes later Jason hurried in, “Dad, quick, outside, look”. For once I had the good sense to grab my camera. Great view of the Northern Lights don’t you think?

Two men and their meal – Marcia thinks that when we’re away from home life revolves only with a slab of bread slathered with Peanut Butter. Wrong!

Truth be told, Jason is an incredible expert preparing Tofu. The photo below shows me enjoying an amazing Tofu Ramen w/Onion dish topped with a hefty ladle of Kimchi. A brilliant meal! Yes, it was a wee-bit chilly in case you think it odd me eating while wearing a Toque.

Quote – “Every Time you quit, somebody else gets your prize.” ~ Andrew Tate.

Clickety-Clack – For the election it became clear that winning Pennsylvania would be critical. Team Trump went all out. Team Harris was lukewarm. Add that the current administration’s fully armed Marshall’s Service raided an organic Amish Farm causing an uproar within that community. That and Elon Musk’s PAC funding door-to-door workers proved a winning combination. 80,000 new Amish voters climbed on board (or is it buggies?).

Vendée Globe 2024 – It few short years ago I became mesmerized with a 10-week around the world sailing race – the Vendee Globe. As their site states. it’s “is a single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race that takes place every four years. It is contested on IMOCA monohulls, which are 18 metres long (60 feet). The skippers set off from Les Sables-d’Olonne in Vendée and sail around 45,000 kilometres around the globe, rounding the three legendary capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin and finally Cape Horn) before returning to Les Sables d’Olonne, France.”

Years ago a friend and I sailed a day Sailer (Highlander, primarily) and did regional races and once did nationals – all on inland lakes. It’s a great sport. Now, watching these magnificent boats transports me into a world I can only dream about – and dream I do.

The 40 boat race started on November 10th and here is a bit of an intro of the first 5 days of racing. Enjoy!

Filling the acronyms – Our elected President (Trump) has wasted little time filling all the key slots of our acronym riddled government departments. I think that in today’s world he won’t have the standard 100 day introduction period, and he knows it.

He’s ready to create change. His two ’axe’ bearers, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have already begun to create notice.

However, there is one person who, if successful, will create truly substantive change, now, and well into that of future generations. The position of Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be a Democrat with a beloved family name, Robert Kennedy, Jr.

I’ll close out by letting RFK, JR tell us with the immense power of his own words:

Life is AMAZING!

Slán agus beannacht (Irish for: Goodbye and blessings to you all)

Dirk

BONUS POINTS:

Every nation has them, slang insults; and British English has a very rich such vocabulary. All of these are British slang insults (all without swearing). Which is the one word that is not one of these expressions

1) nutter
2) numpty
3) daft
4) pofertje
5) plonker
6) bonkers
7) manky
8) scally
9) wazzock
10) chav
11) prat