Without Prejudice and Sweet Rivers

Understandable error in sending off those letters today with that reference included in this file that will never end.  I look forward to the response to the recent round of back-and-forth.  Unhappy clients and parties all around, but what can you do?  Hours lined up for the new year I guess, so it could be worse.  At this point, the worst of the to-and-fro seems over, although the abrasiveness and affront that permeates everything is draining.

Relaxing tonight amid the Kili and World Cup planning, mapping out other thoughts for 2014.  For now it is looking like another full year in Halifax at whatever deal is struck for those 12 months, and something in the Caribbean involving boats after that.  Or so we hope.  Funny to have hosted both MP and TF last night and their day-long interviews here.  All the different ways life could go .  The academic route clearly not the way, and so it makes sense in the context of the usual flight from Hali.

The question remains as to who that might be done with if anyone.  The eH experiment has been fairly limited, but not for lack of trying.  The most recent encounters interesting in the clear signals received and the thoughts on how to play it out, all the while puzzling over the  TZ trip and the extent of friendship that applies to such an excursion.  Zanzibar shall be a very interesting place to reflect on a few things.  In the interim, need to line up the hot tub for a few blustery December nights such as this one and see what happens.  And hope that all the work that remains can be expedited in 3 short weeks.  I hope Oxford works out, that would be truly magical as a way to start off a memorable odyssey.

Oh, the other thing to think about, in this missive that may form some basis for the annual note to MF tomorrow, is the google discovery tonight of Rio Dulce in Guatemala, or literally Sweet River.  Doesn't that just sound like a place you could end up learning Spanish and sailing a year or two hence?  Maybe March is the time to consider checking it out for a few days.  What dreams this next year holds.

Make them all work.