Thanks Jenny. I have been enjoying life more this year than I have ever enjoyed it in the past. I have found the right combination of therapist, antidepressants, and living conditions. Each day is as good or better than the next. There is real adventure in the air and in the future. The trip to Palau is a big one but just seeing the canoe finally slide into the water will be a great adventure also.

Tonight I sat with Manny down by the canoe. While the rest of the gang talked about the latest Seafarers venture he and I talked about what was left to do and when we could get together to do it. His son came up with a small octopus he'd caught down by the sea. manny told him to throw it back and then started remembering octopi he'd caught at various times. He said that he would kill the smaller ones by biting them between the eyes. They are smart aniumals and do not stay still for that treatment. Instead they try to climb up and on to his back. Larger octopi are too dangerous to bite because they latch on to the head and face and could cause a drowning so he uses his knife on them.

He also told me of two cousins who went to Alaska to work on the big fishing boats catching the king crabs. He says they told him they could tell when they had an octopus on a trap because it was much harder to pull up, the winch made a deeper sound. He said those were big octopi and were difficult to get off the traps.