Well it's 21 degrees and heading for a low of 11 tonight, wind whips up out of the NE will bring that down a few digits lower. I ain't liking it.

-3 here with 10-15 mph winds.

A frigid 85 here and the lake is 78 from the top 600 meters down to the bottom...

But I'll only be here 'til the end of the month.

I've been deemed "redundant."

Where is here Carl I get the feeling your not in the upper midwest these days.


Redundant that's just plain rude.

They weren't even that nice, really.

Six weeks ago, they "proposed" terminating my contract with a measly three month settlement.

I said, "no." and they said, "OK. Now we're in negotiations." I wrote a six page essay about how they came looking for me, we quit two good jobs to come here, etc.., added a zero to their number, and waited for them to get back to me.

Last week they got back to me and said, "Same deal as before but now we don't care if you agree. You're done 31 December. How about them apples? Pack out over Christmas.

Soroako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Google it and you can find some photos that include our house and our "raft" (huge rolled steel pontoon boat).