Where is my quote?

The guy from the security company was supposed to send me a price quote for a video camera, but he hasn't. I'll just go to the opposition and get one.

This is pathetic. When someone calls you up (twice) and says he wants to buy something from you, it is good business policy to sell it to him.

Sun tea

I made sun tea yesterday.

Put some tea leaves in a half-gallon bottle of water, which I left outside to get sun.

It worked. I am drinking it this morning. www.stjohnvillarental.com and www.frankbayvillas.com are the web sites to use for rental villas st john vacation.

Celtics and Red Sox Both Win

The Boston Celtics and the Boston Red Sox both won last night, and each team actually outscored its opponent, which makes the win actually count as a win.

The lads will rent a villa on St. John through www.stjohnvillarental.com, I imagine.

200th post

This is the 200th post. The 3rd and 4th blogs already have 200. The second one, and this one, each have 199. So I am going to post just here and there.

No post

I am not going to do a post here today, except to keep the blogs even with each other.

Earth Day Today

Birthday of

Gerald H. Hills
Buddy Rotondi
Mares
Glen Campbell
Oppenheimer
Jack Nicholsen
Some other singer
A director
Vladimir Lenin
A singer friend of Michael Beason

Terry Holt

The Patriots picked up 7-time all-star Terry Holt yesterday.

That makes 3 old fart receivers added to the roster.

David Patten
Ange Crumler
Terry Holt

Now it is time for a good youngster to be added. I like Gresham.

However, the most likely choice is a defensive end. The Pats have 4 choices, so they are likely to draft

Defensive end
Running back
Receiver
Tight end

But at this point, the receiver won't be drafted. Instead, a linebacker or defensive end will be taken.

We'll know on Friday.

Bruins Won and Outscored Buffalo

The Bruins not only won again, they also outscored Buffalo while so doing.

They are ahead in the series 3-0, although they have outscored Buffalo only 2 times in those 3 games.

Red Sox Win Again

The Boston Red Sox won again yesterday. 4th straight win, even though they have been outscored in each of the wins. Yesterday they won 1-7 even though they were outscored by 6 runs. They are 8-4, 4 games about .500, even though they have been outscored 8 times and have outscored the opponents only 4 times. Luckily I am such a great statistician that most of these count as wins. www.stjohnvillarental.com is the place to go for rental villas on st john, usvi.

Celtics Win Playoff Game

The Boston Celtics won a playoff game last night, even though they actually outscored the Miami Heat. 1-0 in this series. The Celtics are clearly much better. The referees tried cheating, but it didn't work, as the Celtics pulled away and won by a million points.

I told you

I told you there would be no posting today, and here is a perfect example of a non-post. Nothing at all here to read except no post.

Drugs Shipment Seized

From the Source, our on-line newspaper. You can read it at www.stjohnsource.com. This is an article about how someone actually did something here to deter crime. It wasn't the local authorities, of course, but the DEA.

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Feds Seize Millions in Cocaine at St. Thomas Marina
By DARRIN MORTENSON — April 15, 2010

Federal agents on St. Thomas this week busted two crew members of a charted sailboat that the Drug Enforcement Administration says carried 250 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated street value of roughly $5 million.
After tracking the 54-foot Laurel as part of an ongoing investigation, the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force, based on St. Thomas, dispatched helicopters, planes and Coast Guard vessels to international waters north of Grenada Tuesday to intercept the sailboat and divert it to St. Thomas, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued late Thursday.
After the Coast Guard cutter Farallon escorted the Laurel to the Independent Boat Yard on the southeast side of St. Thomas, agents boarded the boat and arrested the crew before hauling out the cocaine and other items.
While agents combed through the boat Wednesday, DEA Special Agent in Charge James Doby asked the Source not to report the seizure right away. There was still a chance to make a second wave of arrests of other suspects the feds had been following on other islands, he said.
He said the secondary arrests had already been compromised Wednesday when the Daily News published a front-page story with photos announcing the seizure, despite pleas from agents in charge.
“We asked her to wait and she said she would,” Doby said of the Daily News reporter Wednesday, adding that the rush for a headline may have allowed other suspects to get away.
“The illicit trafficking of cocaine and the violence associated with its distribution, sale and use threatens the safety of every person in the Virgin Islands,” U.S. Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe said in the statement Thursday. “Therefore, it is critical that law enforcement disrupt drug traffickers’ delivery networks, seize their illegal products and prosecute all those involved in the criminal endeavor.”
The St. Thomas-based HIDTA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Bridgetown Barbados Country Office, and the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF) are continuing the investigation.
The St. Thomas HIDTA investigates both domestic and international drug trafficking, targeting organized crime leaders and dismantling and disrupting the flow of drugs through the territory, according to the statement. The HIDTA includes agents and funding from the DEA, U.S. Attorney’s Office, V.I. Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Internal Revenue Service.
The Caribbean Corridor Strike Force, which scrambled an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter, CBP Dash-8 aircraft and two Coast Guard cutters to the scene Tuesday, primarily investigates South American-based drug trafficking organizations that use the Caribbean as a transshipment point for smuggling large amounts of cocaine and other drugs and contraband in the United States.
In a recent interview with the Source, agents from the DEA said that most of the U.S.-bound drugs in the region are shipped from South America to the Dominican Republic, where many of the top Caribbean drug trafficking organizations are based.
On the way, the drugs are often hop-scotched through Puerto Rico and some of the smaller islands, mainly Dominica and Antigua, and only rarely through the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the agents.

iphone

I am allegedly getting an iphone today for my birthday which is exactly 1 week from today. #64, and it is wicked good.

Most likely the iphone will be fun.

Wicked fun.

It might be just plain wicked, in fact.

We're also getting a wicked sofa.

Once Again

The Celtics won once again, even though they scored fewer points than the Bulls. This is absolutely incredible, how they can keep doing this.

Maybe next time they win, they'll actually outscore the opponents.

I expect them to win every playoff series.

Maybe I'll call Scott

I might call Scott today.

I can't find a file on my little peecee.

And I can't find two itunes.

So I need some better brains than I have.

Broken Boat

We were sailing in the Around St. John race yesterday, comfortably in last place, when the cable connecting the steering wheel to the rudder broke. So we rammed Waterlemon Cay and scared a few snorkelers. We would have lost badly, of course.

Every time there is a wind, Larry puts up the small sails, and we end up in last place.

Do you think that - - -

Do you think that anybody will ever read this stuff. I think not. If you are the person who reads it, I give you credit for getting this far.

Hello.

There will be more posts in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.

Some of them might be interesting. Some might not be.

Sailing

I will be in the Around St. John race on Sunday, in the cockpit of Southbound. We should make it all the way around. I'll check on the wind from www.stjohnyachtclub.org.

Planner

Meeting today with the St. John Planner. Yes, and Larry will also be there. I will show him some Pond Bay Club photos.

No posting today

I am not going to do any posting today in any of the blogs.

My recliner

My recliner will be here eventually.

It is wicked good.

It is so good it is just plain wicked.

When I get it, I am going to sit in it and recline it.

M is allowed to sit in it now and then.

Little Rascal Runs Fast

This little rascal was in The Source today, www.stjohnsource.com. I think he will end up as a good runner. He is only 12 right now and is on the Gifft Hill School cross country team already.

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@ School: The Fastest Kid on St. John
By Lynda Lohr — April 4, 2010

Evan Jones

When runners at February’s 8 Tuff Miles race on St. John crossed the finish line in Coral Bay, 11-year-old Evan Jones was right up there with the men and women.

He finished 32nd out of a field of 895 runners and 28th out of the 406 men. He won his age group of 12 and younger with a time of one hour, six minutes, 12 seconds, not that far behind the course-record winning time of 46 minutes, 22 seconds.

"I like to run because it's one of the things I'm really good at," he said.

Jones starting running the 8 Tuff Miles race in 2008, when he came in 53rd. In 2009, he was 47th. That year and again this, he won the pre-race practice events out of a field of about 50 people.

He started running as a small child but it wasn't until 2008 that he began participating in organized events. Last year, he was a member of the Gifft Hill School's cross country team and expects to join again when cross country events start up in the fall.

He also plans to participate for the second time in the Peachtree Road Race, held in Atlanta on July 4.

Evan's hero is Steve Prefontaine, an acclaimed runner who raced at the Munich Olympics in 1972. After a friend gave Evan a book about Prefontaine, he said he was inspired by his efforts to keep running.

He's fifth grader at Gifft Hill School, which he started attending when he was three. He's a straight A student who "reads voraciously."

He was born in Athens, Ga., but his parents, Arthur and Beth Jones, brought him home to St. John when he was three weeks old. He has a sister, Adelaide, 6.

His parents are proud of their son's accomplishments. His mother usually volunteers at the 8 Tuff Miles race so she can watch him cross the finish line.

"I can hear people start yelling as he's running down the field. It's pretty cool," she said.

He already runs faster than his father. The first year the two ran the 8 Tuff Miles, he beat his father by 10 or 11 seconds.

"This year it was five minutes," Arthur Jones said.

When Evan's not at school or running, he goes fishing and plays basketball, football and soccer.

He occasionally goes kayaking with his father, who owns the kayaking guide company, Arawak Expeditions.

"But I like paddle boards better," he said.

36 and counting

My new favorite itunes, including discovered ones and downloads, have now been played 36 times each. Once they hit 52, they will merge into the larger list and have a regular rotation of once every now and then. Right now, they are played a lot.

I did it

I downloaded 5 itunes yesterday. 3 by Neil Diamond, 2 by Rosanne Cash. And then I found 1 by Arlo Guthrie that I had categorized with 4 stars instead of 5. Now I am playing them until they get up to 50+ along with Captain's Favorites. At that time they will blend in. This will take a week. Maybe two weeks, since there are another 9 songs in wait at about 32. So when I get to 32, there will be 15 songs in that little queue. That's about an hour each time. So 20 hours of them, and they will all blend in.

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My trophy

I built a trophy stand for the Cees DeGraaff award for first place in Around St. John.

It is pretty much industrial strength, but so what. At least it makes it a trophy.

Mares will like it, I am sure. And Cees would have been pretty happy.