Real world issues

interesting times…

Some needful reading, making sense on the energy front, and Garth Hudson is no longer with us… Yep, interesting times… Press Release | Jan. 21, 2025 Coast Guard announces immediate action in support of Presidential Executive Orders WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard announced immediate action on executive orders issued by the White House Tuesday. “The …

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the stupid, it burns…

Dumb, dumber, and just plain stupid… So, yeah, yesterday happened. This morning, a quick glance at what passes for news these days confirmed that the excrement collided with the rotating blades and there will be far reaching repercussions for folks who plan to cruise and those out there currently cruising. What those may be are …

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1-20-2025…

Krugman makes a couple of points, the word for today is recrudesecence, and this pretty much says it all… Well… I’m not sure what you’re going to do today but I’m going to celebrate Martin Luther King Day and then binge watch silly Hollywood films with lots of explosions and car chases. Might even go …

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Nomadics 101…

Here’s a fun fact that occurred to me yesterday… Most carrots available for sale here in the USVI seem to come from Canada. Here’s another factoid you might want to consider… A lot of Caribbean islands buy groceries for resale in the USVI. Which is to say that, when shopping for a can of tomatoes, …

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Aw fuck…

I know how I feel but Chuck Wendig says it so much better than I can so you should read his take on this whole damn clusterfuck. For the future, as it stands, VolksCruiser is going to be mostly about lifeboats and getting gone. Deal with that however you care to.

an odd time for sure…

I’m having a lot of trouble keeping my mind on boat jobs I need to be doing. While I should be building a new dodger, sorting out needful spares for Yanmar, chasing down that mystery leak that’s driving me nuts but my mind always seems to be somewhere else… Like wondering how nearly 50% of …

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