[This post was started around 1:pm, Tuesday, but was stopped near the end of #5, due to computer, health, and time difficulties. It was picked up later at around 9:pm, after I had returned home from shopping, etc. I say this because some of you get vertigo when things just don't seem right].

( Mad Dogs and Englishmen )

Well, I was imagining living on an island, offshore from Canada. But it would have been a trap. I would run out of food. And money. It would have been a money pit. An exercise in vampiric futility, comparable to this less lonely scenario: The Money Pit, (movie).

Here's another island, Oak Island, offshore from Nova Scotia, Canada, which has its ( Read more... )

hhhhh.... OK - I highly expected that a large solar event has occurred in recent days, and here it is - http://www.space.com/19093-sun-eruption-video-new-years-eve.html / Read more... )