out of tot

"The prelude to the action is the work of the engine room department."

I love that word 'prelude'. It is the very definition of this hour of a Friday. Where the hope is high and the unexpected rampant and imagination ridiculous. Courage the main barrier, and curiosity the counter. Oh you TFI, how will you be avoided next 14th??

NS

"No one is going to come back like Vivaldi. No one is going to come back like Verdi. And there will never be a tempo like a tango in Argentina."

Out of "tot". Double Black Seal, it is.

Superweepers

Battle of Jutland quote - and Rum at the Mess - shortly. Almost now, actually. I wish I was wearing sunglasses.

"She should tweak her fable in future tellings"

I haven't disappeared, quite. Just subsumed with work, actual attendance at the gym (!), reveling in Giant Super Bowl glory, and the rise of our man Barack. On that note, nice rhetorical flourishes today from George Will.

Less than a month until Malta and further pursuit of the Falcon. And dreams this weekend of an August jaunt from La Paz to Lima moving marvelously toward fruition. Ah, the wonder of the magic striking of lightning. It will be nice to soon be back along the Thames.

Shall get back on the Shakespearean track tomorrow. Since Burns night, the Fridays have been somewhat less than epic. Hoping to make the first tour through the Officer's Mess tomorrow at RA Park though, so we'll see where that rabbithole leads...

"This is why you watch sports"

"...I never would have thought it. That the Giants would be the World Champions. But they are. And it's well deserved... They were simply the better football team... This is why we watch sports. For nights like this, upsets like this. I don't want to say miracles - but the spectacular..." -WFAN 660AM commentator.

Give that team some Nat Sherman cigars! Never did I ever dream that Coughlin and Eli could out-coach and out-play Belichek and Brady. But, it happened all the same. 17 years awhile to wait, but how sweet it is. Thanks, Big Blue. Enjoy the off-season. And thanks for the memories.