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To: Clappy who wrote (3078)	4/14/2001 12:29:28 PM
From: Dalin	Respond to of 104155

Hi Clappy Where will he stop along the way? It'll take him 30 -35 days to get to his first stop. I forget where he said it was. They'll stay there(did i say he was goin wit his wife)for a month or so, then head out again for another spot before getting to New Zealand. He figures by November they'll be there. What a life, eh? They started from canada. Where ever they stop, they both get a job doin whatever, and save their money for the next journey. His wife used to live in New Zealand and hears they are in need of pearl divers. They both dive, so they hope to get a job diving. What a life, eh? Couldn't do it with kids though. He figures sooner or later they want some kids and they'll have to settle down. Was the Raven the boat you helped someone bring down to southern California earlier this year? That boat looked nice. How big was it? How the heck is the satellite dish able to stay focused on the satellite with the bobbing and weaving of the water? Yes it was. It is a 63 ft Nordlund...built in Seattle area. A family business that builds 3 boats a year. Nice and heavy boats made for rough waters. We spotted another Norlund (looked like a 80+ footer)in the same marina, called "Happy Doc". Owned by a neurosurgeon from LA. These boats have special(expensive) satellite dishes that trac even in rough water. You get a glitch every now and then, but its not bad. Happy Easter! :0) Ramblin

To: Clappy who wrote (3078)	4/14/2001 3:48:52 PM
From: elpolvo	Respond to of 104155

señor- you're right. i've got a BIG jones to get on the water... and yes, i'm in the middle of more preparations on my boat. i took everything out of it and it's filling up half my garage. i'm going through it all, cleaning and selecting what goes back in - only half of it gets to go back in. four years of collecting "very important" stuff to have on the boat has finally crossed the line of "too much baggage". i found a 20 pound lead weighted diver's belt that i never knew was on there - it musta been hiding in there when i got the boat. DOOD! GOOD NEWS! I JUST LOST ANOTHER 20 POUNDS! <G> but that's not what this post is about. this is about amazing people. people whose lives are very busy, very full. you would think anyone who had the time to spend posting messages on this "broad" might be people who "didn't have a life" or didn't have better things to do. that's not the case. it's the people whose lives are the fullest and busiest who seem to take that extra step and add a little more to everyone else's lives. do you know how much work is involved in compiling over thirty digital photos, uploading them to a website, adding captions, and then writing up a story about them all and sharing them here? it's a lot of work. how much is involved in just viewing all those photos, one by one over a slow modem, reading the stories and making comments? it takes time. well spent time, but nonetheless, time away from other important things. i remember when someone asked me to organize and run a charity golf tournament a few years ago, i pointed out how busy i was and how many things i had going on and i asked them why they wanted me to run this golf tourney when there were many others in the club who were retired, with no children at home, no job, no overtime, no commuting to do, etc., etc., etc.. he looked at me and said, "when you need to get something done, and get it done well, look around and find the busiest sob you can, and ask him or her to do it." i took on the task and we had a terrific tournament. that's what we have here... a collection of busy people - when you're that busy already, what's one more task? thank you for being busy. thank all of you here for adding me and even the invisible lurquers in to your busy schedules. thanks for sharing, thanks for taking the time to enhance our lives with your words and pictures, and most of all, thanks for being an example of the effort of love that it takes to make the world grow and evolve. when i grow up, i want to be just like you. yes, i have work to do... and i will get it done and do it well but this is my vocation too, and you are important to me. "vocation... is where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need" -frederick buechner "i'll never retire." -polvie of all the investments i have made in the new networked economy over the past three years, the time i have invested with friends and people here has been the only one that hasn't failed or floundered. muchas gracias amigos, -el polvo con corona y limon