I've been neglecting this blog lately but that's what happens when you have a life besides an online one! Watched an awesome sailing movie the other day - morning light. Sure it's easy to critique a movie about spoiled rich kids sailing on a racing yacht but that's like shooting chickadees off the birdfeeder. Suffice it to say the cinematography was fantastic and the sailing was, well, sailing. I loved it. Very few movies made about sailing and i've seen 'em  too many times (none of 'em were actually all that great).
I'm a great Patrick O'Brian fan and yet i couldn't get through master and commander last night; the writing was too awful - that which wasn't stolen from the book that is. I have all 20(?) of his Aubrey/Maturin novels, and i'm reading them through a second time. He was a fantastic writer.

I'm doing a  ton of writing myself,a nd have started my first non-fiction book aside from the marine books i wanna write (first one almost half done but it's the illustrations that take forever; the writing would have been done a long time ago but i want to illustrate as i go along, not write and illustrate later. maybe that's not a good idea.

The nonfiction book is more a philosophical/lifestyle book rather than a how-to book. A compilation of knowledge obtained after almost 50 years of the searching, experimenting and testing that comes with living alternative lifestyles.

Lots of irons in the fire. The boat engine is apart waiting for me to install a new thermostat, ream out the heat exchanger, and wire the damn alarm so it actually works when the oil pressure falls off or the engine overheats. I really hope we didn't damage anything when i overheated it last time. good thing we were only idling.

oh yeah, and there's this:



 one of those "maybe not such a good idea" moments.