seafarer's poem

Last night as I lay sleeping
I died or so it seemed,
Then I went to heaven
But only in my dream
Up there St. Peter met me
Standing at the pearly gates,
He said "I must check your record
Please stand here and wait."
He turned and said "Your record
Is covered with terrible flaws,
On earth I see you rallied
for every losing cause,"
I see that you drank alcohol
And smoked and used drugs too,
Fact is, you've done everything
A good person should never do.
We can't have people like you up here
Your life was full of sin,
Then he read the last of my record
Took my hand and said "Come in."
He led me up to the big boss and said
"Take her in and treat her well,"
She used to work on cruise ships.
She's done his time in hell"

some good quotes

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
-- Howard Aiken

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
-- Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
-- Don Juan Manuel

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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Paradise Point, St. Thomas with Olga and Kalyn

Management lunch in Ocho Rios, Jamaica and San Juan at night

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Random Triumph pics