On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:18:29 -0400, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Reef Fish wrote:
>
>>>>What's this "neighbor" business?  Did your Mom call the Sheriff
>>>>on you?   I thought she was your nearest "neighbor" along that
>>>>them thar I-75 exit.  :-)
>>
>If you remember where I was, take the same route.  You get off the
>freeway and turn at the RaceTrack station,

As I said, your Mom was probably your nearest neighbor.  :)


>But anyway, get off the freeway like
>it was still there heading to where the RaceTrack used to be.

This sounds almost like the direction I got when I gave Clemson a
trial run on a year's leave.  The direction I got was something like

"You get on the Old Hwy 123; when you turn at the junction where
there used to be a service station, ..."

Trouble was -- nobody knew what the Old Hwy 123 was, and of course
when I asked someone at the junction where there USED to be a
service station years ago, it wasn't there any longer ... it took
me three hours to find the house I was renting when it should have
taken 10 minutes with a normal direction.

I should have known right then that I SHOULDN'T have gone to Clemson. :-)


>>>>Da Feeesh.
>>>>At sea somewhere in the Caribbean.
>
>>Less than 12 hours from now, we'll be diving in Ocho Rio, Jamaica.
>>Not the world's diving capitol, and I don't even remember if we
>>ever dived there.  :-)  But what else is there to do but get wet
>>and perhaps it's another "Been there, done dat" location.  :)

I never dived there before.  NOW I can say "Been there, done dat."

It was the most expensive, shortest, and worst two-tank dive I've
ever done in the Caribbean.   That should suffice for the dive report! :-)


>I almost made La Paz but have to care for my elders.  Mom has a new hip,
>dad has congestive heart failure, and grandmother is going senile.  But
>they sat with me through the nasty hospital stuff 2 years ago, else I
>wouldn't be here.

Sorry to hear that!  Hope all this will settle back down to normal
soon, so that you can get wet again.


>You sound about as excited about Ocho Rio as I was a Grand Bahama (you
>get thye steel tank harness and dump into the pool and clear your mask
>annd do so other tricks before they let you onboard).  Screw UNEXSO.

Been there, done DAT too!  UNEXSO is like Little Cayman or Palau,
compared to Ocho Rio.  :-)


> It's a real pisser, trying to see if I can cancel the
>flight and get my frequent flyer miles.

What airline?  Can't you just apply the cost of the ticket (minus
something like $100 penalty each way for change) to a future trip?


>Same freeway exit, same side road.  < snip >

I'll save the directions.  If I don't find you, I'll find your
"nearest neighbor" (either your Mom or your "asshole neighbor" :-))
and either of them can probably point me to the right direction
for your "tree house".  :-)

>Jeff

Da Feeesh.