Another Good June Five

...and potentially momentous one, at that. It did not start off that way, but after escaping the office for the vistas of the Dartmouth Yacht Club and then Shining Waters it could only go in one direction. Best perhaps to just quote the following email and leave it at that:

"No worries man. Good story for you too. After 3PM, went out boating hunting, and I think my buddy and I might soon be owners of a Tanzer 7.5 named "Southern Cross"! It's a sweet 24.5 foot sail boat that has room to sleep 4 and looks just beautiful. Now we just need to learn to sail her! Ah, how perfect a June 5 if that were to work out. You'd definitely have to try and make it out here in September to assess our progress.

Boat priced at $8000, but I'm sure we can get the guy down a bit to the point where we'd be looking at $5-6000 each or so for the purchase and the launch, mooring, and storage fees through the winter. Quite pumped. Hilariously, it probably means I'll need to get a car as well, and have already been thinking about the accommodations for next year, and having a car means I might fold for a cheap condo that is a bit outside the downtown and under a solid renovation at the moment.

Rather ridiculously, I could go from owning essentially nothing to owning a boat, car, and condo in less than a week. Not too bad, I guess, and isn't that what June 5 is all about? Now to see if an email arrives this week from a prof in Dublin or Galway to mess with these plans..."

Just that simple, sometimes. Looks like some fodder for Krapp's tape, as another, stranger plan begins to take shape. Let us see where this one leads, eh? In the mean time, good to have a boat that has its own, excellent theme song, by Crosby, Stills, and Nash:

"When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from
Is so small.
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day."