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Same trailer, different park

 Yeah, I stole that from Kacey Musgraves.  Pretty good album, iiirc. Fueled up at Nawi this am and left for a mooring up the creek at Savusavu marina.  No more construction noise!  Nawi is building a hotel, convention center and condos right next to the marina.  As you can imagine there is quite a bit of noise from earthmoving equipment.  As Boz stated at the bar the other night:  "It's a trailer park.  A very nice trailer park, but still a trailer park."  Nawi will be hella expensive in a few years.  But - always have Savusavu marina.  Right now on the moorings there's one abandoned boat, one boat that hasn't seen its owner in a year, and me.  Quiet.  And the best part - the boat swings with the wind so the front hatch will catch breeze and cool the boat. Brian will be coming down (up?) in a few days.  We are going to use the hookah to go under and clean our boat's hulls.  Probably a good idea to have someone up...
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Sylvia's Mother

So I'm up on deck, scrubbing the accumulated grime off.  Getting ready to leave Nawi for the familiar 'ol stompin' grounds of Savusavu Marina, taking advantage of the free fresh water while I'm here.  And one of those earworms gets in my head:  'Cover of Rolling Stone'.  Remember it?  Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show?  1973?  Yeah, I was there.  I think I even saw them in concert once.  Anyway, it's an earworm.  Tough to dislodge.  So I began to consciously try and remember their other hit songs.  And I remembered 'Sylvia's Mother.' Why is this worth mentioning?  Because of the incredibly archaic lyrics: Sylvia's mother da da da  Sylvia's busy da da da Sylvia's trying to make a new life da da da... AND THE OPERATOR SAYS 'FORTY CENTS MORE FOR THE NEXT TWO MINUTES PLEASE' And it hit me that Gen Beta (or Alpha, or Z or whatever) will have the following questions: What's an operator? Why did you have to pay to talk on the p...
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Rain? What rain?

 Well, there was supposed to be a video post showing the intensity of the rainstorm yesterday.  Unfortunately Blogger and I are not completely copacetic yet.  I'll leave it up, hoping the video is just taking forever to load over the cellular link. Trust me - it was intense.   Edit:  I have an as yet unconfirmed report that the video made it through.  I still can't see it.
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Rain

 Just another day in Fiji.  This is a bit more intense than normal...
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To Infinity...and Beyond

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 Pretty nice infinity pool with swim-up bar.  Oh, is that dangerous... Only down side is the bartender's insistence on blasting that modern country music that is just shy of being called rap.  (C-rap, anyone?). Jeez, guys, turn this crap down so we can talk.  Brian is hard of hearing anyway.  I tire of having to yell in his ear to make myself heard. Which brings up an apocryphal story related by a Reddit user about a conversation between Kris Kristofferson and Toby Keith: My favorite story is Kris talking down to Toby Keith who wanted Kris to “tone down the Lefty shit.” “I don’t want any problems, Kris — I just want you to tone it down,” Toby then said. “You ever worn your country’s uniform?” Kris said in response. “What?” Toby replied. “Don’t ‘What?’ me, boy! You heard the question. You just don’t like the answer,” he continued. “I asked, ‘Have you ever served your country?’ The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever t...
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It's a Signal

 Zika One! Zika One!  Come in, Maverick! Zika One here, Zika Two.  What's with the excitement, Goose? Mav - we've been reactivated!  They're bringing us out of retirement!  We get to spread the virus again! Goose, I haven't had any... Yeah, Mav, it just came through my Signal app.  We're supposed to rendezvous with the rest of the squad at 1800 hours.  The SECDEF sent the target, too!  It's... Goose, slow down.  First of all, we have secured lines for these sort of communications.  Nobody - and I mean nobody - is stupid enough to issue attack orders over a public comms app like Signal.  It just doesn't happen.  Can you imagine what would happen if the phone was hacked?  The target would be ready for us with cans of Deep Woods OFF and citronella smoke spirals.  We'd be dead meat before we could land. But Mav, didn't you get the message? Goose, I wouldn't have Signal on my phone under any circumstances.   I do...
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Better Living Through Chemistry

 This used to be DuPont's corporate slogan.  What a great slogan.  What an inspiring motto.  What a disgrace when they tried to run away from the term 'chemistry' back in the eighties, fearing a eco-backlash.  Sure, they did some bad things with chemistry; what corporation hasn't (talking to YOU, 3M, with your Scotchguard).  But still, it said a lot about the power of science to better mankind.  I was offended when they dropped the slogan. Got the sails back, installed them yesterday with Brian's help.  The main has always been a bugger to raise.  The slugs jammed in the track and it took tremendous effort (not exaggerating) to winch the main up.  Several times last year I was running out of room off a reef because the damn main wouldn't go up.  But, it went up eventually.  I collapsed into a nap. I realized that I had a spray can of some Liquid Wrench Silicone Spray on board.  Hmmmm...  Says it 'forms a slick coating...
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