News From Guam

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: GUEST,winterbright
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 06:35 PM

It may interest you to know that very recently we (the Earth) missed getting hit by a space chunk by - get this - a mere 4,000 miles.
It appears your luck is turning. (grin)

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 09:16 AM

whining?

na, just too busy with other stuff, you certainly do live in interesting times, Brett (and a beautiful place).

sandra

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 03:18 AM

I'm not a great believer in coincidence- as some above have intimated, it might be fruitful to investigate whether the pieces of your recent 'bad luck' originate in one person's puzzle.
(
Hafa Adai! Great phrase). Yes, it comes from a Coastie now posted in Juneau.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Amos
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 01:27 AM

Nah, man, push them further!!!


A

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:32 PM

It occurs to me that Amos was right in his 24 Aug 04 - 12:41 AM post. "SOmething weird has happened to this thread...." I thought about it and realized I have only been whining lately. No descriptions and no mental pictures.

I drove out at lunchtime today to buy some plumbing items for the new house. As I drove down Marine Drive I noticed the surf crashing out on the reef. It has been cloudy and rainy for as long as I can remember. Today the sun peeped out and lit up everything with an unfamiliar warmth. The sea turned a lovely green-blue and the waves crashed into a brilliant white. The surf is running very high because of the typhoon and instead of a thin line of white surf out by the reef we have huge masses of incredibly white water foaming over miles of reef and shore. The waves loom up in translucent tropical water colors and then explode into white masses while the wind drives the white flecks inland. The surf cannot reach the shore so all this drama takes place about 100 yards off shore.

The typhoon was a wonderful experience of driving warm wind and rain. Early on as we tried to put up shutters we were soaked by showers that filled the air with water. It was warm water so there was none of the shivering I have always associated with being wet by the rain. The wind, when it came on strong, bent the palm trees over and sent their fronds tossing all in the same way, as though Mother Nature were combing their unruly hair.

We were safe indoors but we could hear the wind battering the house. The shutters were thin sheets of steel bolted to the concrete walls and they boomed with every gust. Often there was no rain, just the driving wind. It was a wonderful display of nature's power.

Last night I could hear water trickling past the house. The rain water is still draining. Who knows what else it might be. Wakana thinks there may be a water line broken in the jungle behind the house. It certainly sounds like gushing water. I like to think it may be a natural spring that has opened up after the storm and now I will have a brook to deal with next to the house. I imagine building a pool and concrete water channel with rocks in place to make the water splash. Maybe I could even install a little water wheel and rig it up to a generator... Nah, my daydreams go too far.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 07:16 PM

Judy, the house that burned is the one I have been in for a year.

Hafa Adai to you too, Ebbie. You must know someone who has lived in Guam!

Is there more? YES! We have more! Come to the fire sale for your own mess of bad luck!

Yesterday I answered a message from the MBNA Fraud Department. I thought it must be related to the earlier ID theft problem I'd experienced back at the end of July. Oh no, not so Mr. Burnham. It seems that on the day of the fire someone began making purchases with my new credit card, the one I could not activate because I no longer had a home telephone. So here I am, with a brand new credit card still stuck to the mailer in a folder at my new home and someone is out having a great time with it!

How does that happen? Remember I said I thought my social security card and passport had been stolen? Well, they appear to really have been stolen! And someone is having a great time out there.

Wonderful! What is next...? Do I dare even ask?

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: JudyB
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 05:06 PM

Hey, Brett -
Sounds as if things are looking up just a little if you actually have running water now (without standing in your yard with your bar of soap during the typhoon)! I'm a little confused about which house is which - is the one with the fire the one you've been living in for the past year or so? Or the one you said you were moving into a few weeks back? Not that it matters, but I was curious as I know there had been a couple of other "incidents" at the house up in the hills over the past year. Do they have lottery tickets on Guam? Seems as if there should be a wave of good things due your way now (though Wakana sounds like a major step in the positive direction!).
    Take care!
    JudyB

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 12:10 PM

Brett, I'm supposed to tell you hafa adai! I hope you are well.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:34 AM

Brett, although of course I'm concerned and sympathetic about your troubles, I have to say that shining through it all I see a strong man being wonderfully strengthened by the circumstances and people of this place and time-- a man living as large as is his heart and spirit.

Go, man, go!

~Susan

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 08:48 AM

So let's see, fire, typhoon, hmm, I guess that's the list. I figure the big earthquake is next. And that's the news from Guam.

If you were in Oz it would be fire, cyclone, flood, drought & locusts! We're heading for bushfire season, & cyclones hit the northern regions Nov to March, naturally floods follow, drought is endemic (Sydney's dams are below 5o%) & lotsa' locusts are hatching out west.

Do the police think all the incidents are related?

sandra

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 02:41 AM

Holy cow, Brett! I see I am going to have to call more often to keep caught up or be sure I make more reading time! I am very sorry to hear of the burglary and fire. What a terrible thing to do to anyone. I am glad to hear you had a good friend to stay with and that you both seem to be coping with it, together and well.:-) Wakana sure sounds like a keeper.:-) Oh, and I can relate to those winds, though NOT 185 mph! Wyoming has wind, but I don't remember any blizzards going beyond 100 or so!

Take care and enjoy your new place as it takes shape. There is some satisfaction to be had from surveying the results of one's hard work, esp. when shared. And, let us know if there are things we can help to replace, okay?

luvyakat

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Amos
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 12:41 AM

SOmething weird has happened to this thread....

anyway: Brett, the operating range for a monitor of the CRT type can be around 140 degrees farenheit. But that is with the ordinary airflow, calculated to keep the heat down. So I reckon just putting a cheap cotton pillow on the air vents near the hot part of the tube might be enough to start it but I am not 100% sure.

A

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 09:31 PM

Here is a more detailed report from last week. I am now back in the office and very glad to be here. This is the easiest day I have seen in over a week.

I went out on Monday to arrange for the utilities to be turned on. That was a long and arduous day. I got home at 4:30 PM to find the door was not locked as I usually leave it. There was a foul odor in the air. I opened the door on to a scene of wreckage and the reek of smoke and soot. My house had burned while I was out.

Now that the investigation is over it appears that someone had broken into the house and stolen my camera and Wakana's laptop computer. They may have also taken my passport and social security card. They then set a pillow on top of the computer monitor and turned it on. The firemen report that the house was full of smoke when they got there. It was a smoldering fire. It wasn't until they ventilated the upstairs rooms that the flames came up and they could put it out. We lost a lot of our stuff. Anything that was made of fabric is full of the soot and smoke smell. We may be able to clean the clothing well enough to wear but the bed and easy chair are gone.

Next day we started in the new house. It had been empty for about a year and a half. We had to clean and paint the whole thing. What a chore. We had planned to do this work over the rest of the month. Now we had a week. I bought a new bed and a dresser. The kitchen cabinets were full of termites and ants so we tore them out. The air conditioner didn't work and the refrigerator wouldn't cool. Some of the windows were broken. The bathtub was full of rust and debris. The sewer line was plugged. The driveway was silted up with four inches of mud washed down from the neighbor's new yard.

While we worked we stayed with a friend, and our future landlord. We slept on his couch and on the floor. The village was having water problems so we weren't able to shower. We would arrive at his house after a long hard day, drenched in sweat and covered with dirt, barely able to stand. To clean up you would turn on the water in the bathtub but there wasn't enough pressure to take it up to the shower head. Instead you had a Taco Bell plastic soda cup which you would fill and pour over yourself. There was no hot water. Once you were wet you could lather yourself with soap and then rinse with the cup.

Last night, Monday, August 24, 2004, was our first night in the new house. It still looks like a construction site with paint cans and tools scattered around. The range is in the living room and there is a roll around dishwasher waiting to be removed. We also have a water cooler in the living room. But we slept in a bed and we got to take real showers. The house is near the naval magazine and for some reason has water while the rest of the village is dry. What luxury is a hot shower…

Oh, then after all that work we heard of Chaba. Chaba is a Thai word that means "sweet flower". It is also the name of the typhoon that was bearing down on us. We spent Sunday in the pouring wind whipped rain putting up storm shutters and preparing two houses for the storm. Then I helped Gordon get his own house and his neighbor's house ready. Gordon was house sitting for the neighbor and we stayed in the empty house to ride out the storm. Chaba passed about 90 miles north of us so our winds were only in the 60 to 70 MPH range. It hit Rota and Saipan pretty hard. Now that Chaba has moved on we hear that the sustained winds are up to about 180 MPH.

So let's see, fire, typhoon, hmm, I guess that's the list. I figure the big earthquake is next. And that's the news from Guam.

I hope you can see this. It is the satellite montage from our neck of the woods. Next time you hear Florida complaining about storms just think of this picture. Chaba and Aere

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 12:57 PM

Must be true love if you can stand each other without bathing for a week.
SINS

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: bbc
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 12:34 PM

Progress, dear. Being clean is almost as good as being rested. I remember from the time when my kids were babies!

Barbara

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Amos
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 08:35 AM

Keep plugging, pal;!! Change is a bear...


A

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 06:40 AM

Typhoon Chaba took a turn to the southeast and made a close pass to Guam. At it's closest it was about 85 mailes away and our winds were up to 70 MPH gusts. Rota and Saipan took it as a close approach and saw sustained winds in excess of 100 MPH. Currently it is moving away and has sustained wind speeds of 185 MPH.

We spent Sunday afternoon putting up typhoon shutters and preparing the old house and the new house for the storm. The rain was pouring and the winds were already high. I was soaking wet before we were half through with the first house. Then we were back to help Gordon get his and another house ready.

We rode it out in a friend's house. Oddly enough we had power through the heighth of the storm and sat up watching DVDs and movies. Then it crashed this morning around 8:00 AM as the winds dropped.

Tonight we are spending our first night in the new house. We had our first shower in a week this evening! What luxury!

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 06:49 PM

Ah yes, weather. I failed to mention that Typhoon Chaba is bearing down on Saipan. That means we get tropical storm conditions today and tomorrow. I wonder when the earthquake is scheduled to occur.

We are both so tired we cannot see straight but at least the major painting is done. Today we work in the old house cleaning and salvaging.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 10:27 AM

Cheer up, Brett! The balance of the universe is being restored as I post, in that today we Gooch Island revelers are scheduled for Guam monsoon rains. The Island itself was last reported surrounded by bounding billows of muddy water. There are rumors of a tent being erected for the survivors in the adjacent Royal River Park but somehow the idea of crowding together in a tent while thunder and lightning is breaking overhead is challenging to even the most foolhardy.

The good news? Well, the rest of the week promises to be warm and sunny.

Charlie

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 06:36 PM

I am using Gordon's computer to make a quick post before we get back to work. In the last four days we have converted an empty abandoned house into a home. We still cannot live in it. The sewer system is blocked up and the aircon is not working either. But we have a bed and set of dressers. We are bone tired and ready to drop and we haven't yet started in the old house. Hopefully we'll have help today.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: bbc
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 10:50 PM

Gee, Brett, I can relate to this one, too. Sorry to hear about the break-in, smoke & fire damage, etc. When my house was broken into, it was winter. The bad guys slipped on the snow & broke a window on the way out. The draft blew out the pilot on the oil furnace & we came home to standing water & ice on the whole ground level of our house. I happened to have laryngitis at the time which was pretty amusing as I gave the report to the insurance adjuster. We had a plumber showing his butt crack who knocked holes in the walls to find the broken pipes. Then, we had to replace all the hardwood floors & wall-to-wall carpeting. Did I mention the several hundred dollar water bill? Thankfully, we didn't have to pay that!!! Anyway, it took about a year to get the house back in shape. The good news was that we never felt the sense of violation that many folks do when they are robbed. Who had time? Thinking of you with sympathy. Best to you & Wakana. This, too, shall pass.

love,

barbara

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: JudyB
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 04:31 PM

Hi Brett!
Have the police made any progress? Do make sure you mention the other "little" things to them, like the identity theft and the stuff that went missing from your old place - if someone does have it in for you, it should help them find a pattern. Please keep us posted when you can (is there an internet cafe on Guam?
Hugs, JudyB

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:35 PM

Brett,
Seriously...does someone have it in for you? Be careful. Any chance of you and Wakana moving to the relative safety of Maine?
Take care,
SINS

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: JudyB
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:05 PM

Brett -

Big hugs to you and Wakana from me, too! This does seem like a somewhat different version of paradise than what I usually envision. I was thinking your new place was more suburb than rural - if so, they are one brazen bunch of thugs! (Or one sort of dumb and hopefully not too lucky jerk.)

I'm sending good thoughts your way - let us know if there's anything else more concrete you need from the states.

The ads have changed to ones for blues albums....

Love, Judy

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:37 PM

Damn! Of course there are scum like that in Maine too but what a bummer to come home to.

I note that the appropriate ads are for fireProof Files and Safes and attorneys.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 09:50 AM

Brett - big hugs to you & Wakana. I hope this time the police will find the (alleged) criminals.

Did your CDs survive - I can replace the Ozzies if they're gone.

love from sandra

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 05:04 AM

Brett, I don't know what you've done to upset the gods and have all this recent bad luck. Have you been treading on any maere out there?
Here's hoping the force of the Mudcat can counteract it and send you some good fortune.

RtS

Subject: WIld News From Guam
From: Amos
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 11:10 PM

I just got an unexpected phone call from Brett - he would have called Charlie but it is late in Maine.

Seems Brett and Wakana came back from doing errands (including getting utilities set up for their new place) to find that their new place had been burgled! Wakana's laptop was stolen, but the guitars are safe down stairs. Not only did they toss the joint and steal an indeterminate amount of stuff, but they then set the house on fire. So when Brett drove up it was all charred and smoke damaged. The fire was started at his computer station where a pillow had been left to burn from the heat of a monitor (the burglars had to turn the system on and place a pillow on it to make this happen, so Brett reckons it was arson. Police and Fire officials are still working it.) The whole upstairs is smoke-damaged and charred, especially where the computer was.

What all this means, unfortunately is that Brett is sleeping on a borrowed floor somewhere in Guam, the t-shirt and shorts he has on being the only clothes not smoke-damaged or burned. I guess all those nice clothes he bought in San Diego are layered with smoke from burning CRTs and such...jaisus!!

He wanted me to post a report to you all and say it will be a while before he'll get to a borrowed computer and post to his thread.

I told him he was living an awful interesting sort of life with all these catastrophes in it, and he managed to laugh, so I guess he ain't broke, but it isn't as if he needed this extra chaos in his life!!!

Well, that's about it -- we couldn't talk long as it was his nickel from way the hell overseas. He sounded okay, considering all he's been through, and asked me to pass his warm greetings on to all his friends, so consider them passed to you.

Best regards,

A

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: JennyO
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 10:24 PM

Charlie, you turning into El Ted? :-)

Brett, you are going to have to stop bashing yourself up like this. It just won't do! I still have visions of those poor squashed donuts :-( I love donuts.

Jenny

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 08:22 PM

Well, I really shouldn't do this but here's the 900th post!

Happy healing!

Charlie

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Amos
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 07:19 PM

Brett,

Life has its little lessons. If you're going to be a biped and walk upright on the earth, practice til you get it right!!! :>)

Heal quick, amigo. Falling down is not encouraged!!

A

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Barbara
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 07:17 PM

Brett, do you know the trick of heating up one end of a paper clip in a flame and using that to burn a hole in the nail? It tends to be less painful than drilling (less pressure). I used a pair of needle nose vice grips to hold the paper clip.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 07:05 PM

Well, Charley, I would love to do that but the job wouldn't get done. Not the office job but the renovation/redecorating job. Wakana and I spent this weekend prepping and painting the new place. The landlord came in and worked on cutting out large chunks of concrete where the rusting re-bar was showing through the ceiling.

Back when we first looked at the place I got my truck stuck in the driveway. When I told Gordon about that he was truly puzzled. This weekend he went to look at it and saw what had happened. The neighbor had graded his yard and put in new soil. Tropical Storm Tingting had washed it all into Gordon's driveway in time for me to get stuckin it. Gordon and his son shoveled out over 100 five gallon buckets of wet red mud so we could get into the house.

Today I go off to fight with the utility company bureacracies to get the utilities hooked up to the house. Then it's back up the hill to keep painting. If I am going to live in this place I want it clean and neat for at least the first ten minutes before it gets comfortable.

This morning in the office we had a pot luck breakfast. I brought in donuts. Wakana had rallied her strength and made rice balls, wasabi, shrimp, sour plum, and salmon. I was carrying in the donuts and rice balls when I tripped on the curb and fell. The donuts were crushed under the weight of the plate but the plate was undamaged. I cannot make the same claim. My knee is scraped and the little finger on the right hand was scraped raw with hunks of skin hanging off of it. I came in and grabbed the office first aid kit. So this morning I was reintroduced to the joys of iodine on open wounds. My fingernail is dark red and may be turning black soon. I may have to drill a hole in it to release the pressure. Sigh, it's just one damn thing after another.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 10:17 AM

Brett-

It's been relatively cool and wet this summer in Maine, only a couple of days above 90.

We have managed to enjoy the beach a couple of times, and now that the surf temperature is up to 60 degrees the swimming is really wonderful!

The Gooch Island annual picnic/survivor's challenge/sing is on the weekend of 8/21. You could always fly in and surprise us.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Amos
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 11:49 PM

Gee, Brett -- I don't recall skeeters or snow...or mud... and a few warm days have been tolerable.

You could always move here!


A

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 10:50 PM

Ah, back to normal, clouds and rain. Would someone please remind me why I wanted to live in a tropical paradise?

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 09:14 PM

Yesterday afternoon I whacked it on the leg of my desk. It appears to still be sensitive as I voiced some choice comments without intending to and then limped home to ice it and take some Tylenol.

We have an unusual weather anomaly outside. The sun is shining. There are actual shadows out there. In other weather news there is a typhoon churning off to the west of us. It's headed for China. There is a tropical storm northeast of us headed out to the center of the Pacific. And there is a tropical storm to the southwest that has a fair possibility to turn into a typhoon that might head for us.

I understand the eastern USA is having some fears of hurricanes right now so I hope I don't hear anyone questioning my sanity about living in the path of typhoons. It's been over twenty months since our last real typhoon.... Am I nuts or what?

Still, in those twenty months my friends in Maine and New Hampshire have shoveled through piles of snow, slopped though buckets of mud, smacked flocks of mosquitoes, shivered through chilly nights and sweated through hot August days, so I still think I have the better deal.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 06:37 PM

I will have to watch PBS for the film so that I can write in and complain about the big American ruining the authenticity of the pictures. How's the toe?
SINS

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 06:19 PM

No job in Tokyo. That program has been terminated.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 12:25 AM

I THOUGHT it had been rainy! Now I know it! I just saw a weather report. The annual average for rain in the dry season (Dec - June) is 30 inches. The annual average for rain during the wet season (July - Nov) is 60 inches. So far in 2004 (the "dry" season) we have received 73.4 inches of rain! June alone gave us about 37 inches!

And now we start the "wet" season.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:10 PM

Yesterday I decided to check on the job as chanty singer at the Tokyo Disney Resort Park. I have sent out a number of messages to those who might have some info and am waiting for a reply. That would be fun once I retire.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 11:25 PM

Another update from our trip to Palau. Wakana had her heart set on seeing an abai, a men's gathering house, in Palau. There is a very old one in Arai state. The abai is still an important part of modern Palauan society but she wanted to see an original.

We rode out to see the Arai Abai which is the oldest on Guam but the taxi driver didn't know where it was. He did manage to find the Palauan war canoe. It is an outrigger paddling canoe for 40 men. The thing is huge! And it was carved from a single log! Amazing.

The taxi driver took us to the Belau Museum where we knew there was a modern replica of an abai. When we got there we saw a group of people watching dancers all lined up in front of the abai. The dancers were men and boys wearing the traditional thew loincloths and carrying dancing sticks. We settled ourselves on a convenient seat to watch but were hustled away from there because we "could be seen by the camera". That puzzled us but we moved on. The men started to dance but we couldn't see much of them because of people standing in the way taking pictures.

After the men finished it was the women's turn. A huge group of women and girls in grass skirts, panadanas brassieres, and other colorful decorations and headresses took their places before the abai. We tried to get a better look but someone kept shooing us away from our vantage points. It turns out the event was being filmed for TV. If I wanted to see the dancing and ceremonies we would have to go back to hotel room and watch it on TV! The other people that were in our way were "the media" who were recording the event for their various publications. I was mad enough to spit nails! We'd spent good money to be on Palau for just such a sight and we were not allowed to enjoy it because it had to be recorded for those who were NOT there! Grrrr. Sigh. It must be another facet of the modern world.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 06:57 PM

Life can sometimes be difficult without actually seeming to be. My broken toe kept me out of the office for a while and then the phone quit working so I had no internet access. Sigh. It seems to be connected to the rain. We had torrential downpours late last week and the phones quit after the first one. They still don't work today but at least it has quit raining. Still cloudy though.

Two weekends ago we went to Palau and last weekend we moved Wakana into my house. Consequently I did no laundry for two and a half weeks! Yesterday Wakana and I washed and dried seven loads! What a job! She seems to think it would be better to wash more frequently. I guess I have to agree with her.

When I was young one of my favorite TV programs was COMBAT!. Wakana grew up in Japan on the other side of the world and is 8 years younger than me. As a child one of her favorite TV programs was... COMBAT! Recently I found a DVD with the first season of the show on it and she and I have been watching a show or two every evening. What a great series. It still stands up even today.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 09:35 AM

ouch - I've walked on a broken toe, tho I never was aware of breaking it, I just walked on a very sore foot for a long time. I'm used to sore feet & legs, so it was a bit of a surprise to find it was broken.

I had no trouble seeing the break in the X-ray - the podiatrist didn't need to draw around it as a previously 0-shaped sesimoid (spelling??) bone now looked like a very obvious B!!

watch those boxes & packing materials, they jump out at you.

sandra

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 06:25 PM

I talked to Gordon last night. The canoe crew is home from Palau. I'm not sure what the outcome will be but they are trying to schedule a meeting for Thursday. Gordon claims it will not be a grousing session but I think there are frictions that will have to be resolved. Note for the future: Maybe we shouldn't go to these big events without more personal planning and preparation as well as setting some guidelines.

Last Saturday, while carrying boxes for Wakana I stubbed my toe on one of my own boxes. I heard the snap and felt the deep pain that means I've broken that bone behind the little toe. For the last few days that corner of my foot has been black and blue and there is some pain when I walk. It will take a while to heal.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 11:46 PM

your news is wonderful Brett - enjoy your happiness, you deserve it.

best wishes

freda

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: bbc
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 09:09 PM

I wish you happy, dear!

Barbara

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Naemanson
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 08:45 PM

Wellll, not exactly an afterthought. Just reporting news without all the personal stuff that's associated with it. I'm sure your guys can read between the lines to guess at the emotions involved.

The newspaper is reporting an outbreak of Dengue Fever on Palau. We were warned when we got there that the mosquitoes were carrying it so we were careful. I think we are OK.

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 12:42 PM

LOL, SIns. Joy to the two of yez, mate!


A

Subject: RE: News From Guam
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 11:55 AM

A dissertation on clams followed by an afterthought - Wakana moved in with me today...guess who's from Maine! Be very happy, Brett.
SINS