Who You Can Meet Sailing

Ruth sent us this picture of a rattle snake killed on Lake Sakakawea. Click on this picture to enlarge it. It looks like the biggest rattle snake ever seen. I would be more worried about it eating you than the venom.

God doesn't like nicknames

Lord Kadizzle is terrible for giving people nicknames. Today a cute little Jehovah's Witness girl showed up in my driveway. Being the terrible sinner I am she got the Kadizzle religion lecture. One thing that has struck Kadizzle as strange are some of the silly rules God has. The little lady told me you must call God by his correct name. She was amazed when I told her I knew it was Yahweh. God is just his nickname according to the Jehovah's gang. If you don't get it right, you don't get in. This was part of my lecture. Kadizzle cannot tolerate a petty God, Yahweh or whatever. It seems very contrite to send someone to hell because they call you by your nick name. People often call me Quinn, as if it were my first name. I don't mind a bit, but I would surely not say "You will go to hell for that". So if you do get to heaven be sure to say "Hello Yahweh". Now, it just occurred to me why the guy I saw in the parking lot in Page Arizona was so mad at me. He was dressed like Jesus, and for all intents and purposes that is who he looked like since he even had a beard. I said to him "How is every thing going today Jesus". He was pissed and just scowled at me. Now, if I had called him Yahweh he probably would have said "Fine my son, and welcome to Page Arizona, this is a close to heave as you will ever get".

Farting Through Silk

Lord Kadizzle had the good fortune to go to High School with some nice black kids. One expression Author Little taught Kadizzle was "Farting through silk". Apparently the black kids put a premium on a good pair of silk underwear. Today the underwear drawer gave out. The last pair was as near to silk as Kadizzle will ever get. My hunting buddy Spindly Riddle accidentally left a pair of premium undies on a hunting trip. Spindly ran a very high class clothing store, and of course catered to those who could afford to fart through silk. So tonight if the winds are favorable his Lordship will be enjoying a pleasure confined to a few.

No wind to power the boat but plenty for this

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The old saying is "God works in strange ways". On the way back from Heaven Bay we had very little wind to power the boat, but up above us the wind was being used.

Summer Sailstice

Sailboats all over the United States will be gathering tonight to celebrate Summer Sailstice. As the Earth leans as far to the south as it can, the boats will gather for a good time at Berthold Bay. Around the campfire songs will be sung, glasses will be emptied, and sailors will tell the same lies over and over. In the morning people will slowly crawl out of the ships moored side by side and greet the day. Pancakes will be flipped, coffee will be brewed, and another day of sailing will begin. Perhaps the fleet will go on to Heaven bay. Maybe someone will greet the first rattlesnake of the season. The lake is as high as it has been in many years. The boats can get back into secret places they have not been in a long time. The sailing will be good, and so will the company.

Garage Sale, or Garbage Sale?

Tax Bullshit

Remember the old days when a mother could stay home and raise kids if she wanted to? What happened? A man named Ronald Reagan thought the rich should not be taxed. The gipper got underway the current mess where the rich no longer pay their share of taxes. Reagan called it trickle down. He should have called it "Piss on the poor". From 1954 until 1978 the middle class got the biggest share of the pie they ever did in our country. Since the Republican pigs quit taxing the rich this has all changed. Now the rich get more of the national wealth than they ever have. The top one percent of our earners get 17% of the take. Real wages for working people have gone backwards. Most people don't take the time to find out what happened. Instead they prefer to listen to some propaganda machine like Fox News. For all the bitching you would think taxes have gone up. People are now paying the lowest tax rate since 1950. The biggest beneficiaries are the rich. George Bush had the first war in history where the rich got tax breaks. Click on this sentence and read the article that appears to see what really happened, or just continue to live in right wing fantasy land. Real wages for working people have gone backwards, meanwhile the pay for CEO's has gone from 147 times what a line worker makes to 500 times what a line worker gets. The taxes on the CEO have gone down, and the tax on the working person up, but that is not the picture the right wing paints.

Praise the Lord, Thank You Jeeeeesus

Lord Kadizzle's aspiring fashion designer called yesterday with good news. Megan has been struggling with her business for a long time. Starting a business in a downturn is tough. However, her work did not go unnoticed. Urban Outfitters was courting her, but did not act quick enough. Yesterday Macy's offered Megan a job assisting a designer that will create a new line of clothing for them. Megan and her boss will be the team that gets it done. For Kadizzle the economic security, and health care will be a blessing for Megan, and a burden off the Kadizzle treasury. With the job situation in this country in the worst mess since the depression finding any job is a miracle. Everyone go to Macy's and buy baby buy. Lord Kadizzle posses above in an outfit Megan designed just for him.

More Medical Adventures.

Kadizzle is turning old and falling apart quickly. After the recent episode with the gleet, Kadizzle thought life would be good for awhile. Wrong. Yesterday Kadizzle was convinced a tooth demon had infested one of his molars. The pain was unbearable so a trip to the dentist was in order. It looked like a root canal was staring the carcass in the face. The dentist could find nothing wrong, and suggested it might be a sinus problem. Awakening to unbearable pain his lordship had to get a CAT Scan. It turned out to be acute sinus infection. Kadizzle never thought the sinus could rival the old gleet for pain, but the sinus won. A needle jabbed in Kadizzles ass with some antibiotic did miracles. Now things are looking up and perhaps this body can survive a pain free weekend of sailing.

The Nature of the Universe

The Commander demanded that the alcohol stove be replaced on the boat. So Kadizzle set out to do it, thinking it was a simple inexpensive matter. Installing propane safely on a sailboat is neither simple, nor inexpensive. Now, hundreds of dollars later, with completion no where in sight, Kadizzle realizes installing the stove correctly may be impossible without major modification to the boat. To correctly install propane on a boat the propane cylinder must be in a container. The container must be air tight, and drain by gravity to outside atmosphere. This is where the dilemma starts. It turns out there is no where on the boat to store the propane tank high enough. In order to create such a propane locker a major fiberglass boat rebuilding would be necessary. As somewhat of an alternative Kadizzle has ordered a Propane detector. Hopefully shortly before the explosion there will be an alarm sound. The alarm will give all on board a chance to repent and exchange final words. This all proves Kadizzles theory involving the law of entanglement. Things will naturally turn out in a manner you did not expect. If you want to see how the law of entanglement works, take three pieces of anything like twine, rope, or extension cord and drop them in a bucket or drawer. Without human intervention they will come out hopelessly entangled. The law of entanglement dictates that anything that can turn out wrong generally will. Nature has taken advantage of this law. Seed pods are the classic case. Many seeds are spread by seed pods that get caught on everything. Everyone has come home from a hike in the fall full of burrs, or had it happen to the dog. It works flawlessly.