I hope so! The alternative is unacceptable.

Not much to report. I did my laundry (everybody cheer) but other than that the weekend was quiet.

The canoe has gone to Palau as has the crew. The canoe left on a barge on Monday, the crew left on Saturday. They have a week to repair any damage and learn how to sail him without falling off. The trip to Palau was donated by the shipping company and the return trip was paid for by the Festival committee. Unfortunately the return trip includes stops in Shanghai, Hongkong, and one other port and the canoe has to be transhipped at each stop. We are worried that we will only get busted wood when it comes off the ship in Guam, whenever that happens.

Assuming our canoe arrives safely our next order of business is to rebuild our canoe house. After that we start carving on our smaller two man canoe. So far it only looks like a log but Manny can see the canoe inside.

My prime order of business after Palau is to paint the house I will be moving into. It needs paint bad, inside and out. The nice thing about a smooth concret wall is that you can use a roller and that is just what I intend to do. First hit it with the power washer, roll on a coat of paint, move to the opposite wall, hit that with the power washer, roll on a coat of paint, then go back to the first wall and give it the second coat. Next day do the other walls. Then it's inside for the finicky work. The landlord needs to do some work in there and I need to build some stuff before I move in. I will have the power turned on and start banging out bookcases so I can unpack my library. I need to make some space so Wakana can ship her books in from Japan. Sigh, it figures I would take up with a reader...

I just wish I could read her books but the are all in Japanese. Her brother sent her some antique Japanese comic books (late 1960s and early 1970s) and she was thrilled. Of course I couldn't make out anything in those pages but they didn't seem to have a problem with nudity.