Probably not out of the woods

I am in Roatán He beautiful beach weather and diving with my soon to be ex plant manager. we didd a beautiful dive yesterday called Dixie. We saw a nice slow moving beautiful sea turtle. csfthe dive lasted for 4 minutes can I still had 500 pounds of air left when we finished. I am getting better at my rate of air consumption or breathing efficiency. when I was getting ready last night to go out for the evening I noticed that I had a sore spot underneath my armpit. it is red and raised. now I'm worried that my rrrrrrlymph nodes are swn and that it could be something bad

Wall Street Journal Web Site Cookie Handling Sucks

I have a print and online subscription to The Wall Street Journal which is my favorite place for news. I have turned off all cookies in my browser and am allowing only certain specified cookies to be saved on my computer. Wall Street Journal's site will not seem to work this way. I can get all other sites to works properly by turning global acceptance of all cookies, browsing to the site, browsing around the site for a little while to save all the shitty cookies that the site wants to put on my computer and then turning off global cookie access. But not the Journal's site. Sucks! Why should they dictate how I handle my own cookies? Seems unfair and unjust to me. Now I have to turn on global cookie access every time I want to read their site. Maybe I should get my news elsewhere?

My neck, my back, my ***** and my crack? Plus the Best Ice Cream on the face of Earth

The wife left for a girl's weekend and I had the kids to night. After we ate dinner at home I took them to Wal-Mart to buy an ergonomic neck pillow because my neck and back are still bothering me six weeks later. The pain is not as bad- mostly gone but still noticeable. I have been to an ortho doctor and had x-rays but nothing serious showed up on x-rays except some narrowing between my vertebrae and the curve in my neck straightens out a little more than normal. Doctor Campbell says it isn't anything to worry about now. He gave me some exercises to do and sent me on my way.

So I took the kids to Udderly Delicious in Conover tonight after the wondrous trip to Wally World. I always get Preacher's Coffee Ice cream. That shit is so damn good! It has coffee ice cream with chocolate fudge swirls and almonds I think. I only had one scoop but I could have eaten seven.

Samuel Adams Tasman Red

I am drinking a pine tree. At least it has alcohol.

The Crutch

I am at "the beach" with the family- our condo at North Myrtle Beach. The wife took the daughters shopping all day and I hung out with my son Atticus. He wanted so badly to have a skimboard. He saw some other kids using skimboards earlier this week and has since talked about nothing else. So I took him to Ron Jon Surf Shop and purchased him and his sisters each a skim board and wax. Many thanks to the nice man who helped us and advised me on which board to buy. He qualified me correctly and and didn't direct me to the $599 carbon fiber board but the $11.99 wood board for beginners.

We got back to the condo and I took Atticus out and he tried and tried to skimboard but just couldn't quite get it. He wanted to throw it too far in front of him and when he jumped on it, the board had already stopped moving and he wasn't moving fast enough to actually skim on the water.

I realized at that point that he was a little too young to learn from his father and that he may be able to learn faster if he had someone else teaching him.

He kept telling me "daddy, you think it is easy" after I had told him several times that it is hard to learn. Obviously he was picking up on my frustration that he was having a difficult time with him learning. It is really interesting that he can pick up on my frustration. He kept on repeating "daddy you think it is easy" but I never told him that. I guess my body language and tone of voice told him that. Thus, he needs someone other than me to teach him.

So I have consumed some Vodka and strawberry/kiwi sparkling juice (meant for the kids who didn't drink much of it) and Unibrou Trois Pistoles (awesome beer- possibly my favorite) and the Samuel Adams Tasman Red.

After the Unibrou Trois Pistoles the Tasman Red tastes very, very piney. Like a pine tree. I am drinking pine cones.

So now I feel too drunk to write intelligently. Time for me to go to bed.

Adios and Au Revoir.