Charles W. Moore

Politicals of Today

hypocrite
[hip-uh-krit]
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noun
1.
a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

Florida Raining & Other stuff

It started raining up in Jacksonville Avondale are about 1400 hrs.  We were having lunch with new friends Allen & Candice’ of Tuktu.  I helped Allen deliver her from Green Cove Springs to Ortega Landing Marina this morning on a glorious day that turned into an expected soaking, rainy overcast afternoon.  It was a fun trip of about 4 hours.  Afterwards they treated SAM & I to lunch at  nice sidewalk cafe’.  We have been using our nautical blogs to document these happenings.

Now back on our boat, I am writing to kill some time.  We have been working hard trying to finish up chores on the boat before end of season layup sometime in mid-April. Abby is snoozing beside me on the starboard setee and looking quite content.  What a happy companion dog we have.

I have been taking strong Ibuprofen 800mg tabs three times a day for neck pain that I think began as I was cutting off the wooden teak plugs used to cover up the screw holes on Inspiration II eyebrow decorative stripes.  It started three nights ago while sleeping and that ended my sleep in extreme pain.  It seems that each time I do strenuous repetitive  motion with my arms it occurs with alarming regularity.  I do know what to avoid and can mitigate the condition by limiting the time I perform the function and break it up into several sessions.

The rain that started in Jacksonville about 1400 continues to fall steadily here in Green Cove Springs.  I am guessing the rain started here about 1315 hrs.  The weather is overcast, rainy, 77°F and 1014.8 mb barometric pressure.  The rain was expected and if forecast to last several days.

Breakfast at Clubhouse

I awakened early and went down to the clubhouse for breakfast.  The only other person was Camper Man and the TV was blaring Fox TV News with this rant and that rant about Pro-Trump and Anti-Clinton stuff.  To me it is all Blah-Blah-Blah but they did side with Senator Sanders run for President.  I think this is because they would side with anyone who could throw pebbles into the Clinton path.  Like Trump they are pretty free with words like Liar, Treason and other words that I heard during the Bill Clintorn run for President so many years ago.  The Republicans are pretty straight forward liars themselves because it takes one to know one.

Anyway, I just told Camper Man that I was an Engineer and Scientist and all this philosophical junk was so much Blah-Blah to me.  However, that did not stop him from spewing forth his particular brand of words as he went out the door.  I pretty quick shut the TV off to get some piece and quiet.  Good morning to all.

Sunday – a beautiful North FL day

I started the day as usual while on the boat.  Down to the clubhouse for an Oatmeal breakfast, a chat with the “Breakfast Club” and back to the boat.  Since this is Sunday, we prepare for church and leave the boat about 10:10.  Church ran a bit late today – 12:30 – at First Assembly.  After church, we came back to the boat to have lunch and a wee nap.

Later in the day I started to work on the boat and installed a few bits of wood.  Mostly it went pretty well but the wood strip did not fit up as well as I envisioned.  Now I have to figure out how close the gap between the hull and the eyebrow.  We have put it back on unfinished and are trying to decide if to put a finish coat of Cetol on the decorative eyebrow strip.

The last three weeks have been absolutely marvelous.  Compared to last year we are happy with the weather this year.  As the season is drawing to a close we must say the year has been kind to us.

Blogs and blogs and Moore

I have been writing more in my nautical blog than ever.  I had a few minutes tonight and I am ashamed to say it has been weeks since I wrote in this one, my longest running blog of all.  Besides this blog, I have Water Water Everywhere at blogspot and one at Tumblr as well, which is called Water Man Water.  The Tumblr blog is a technical blog of nautical nature of things I want to remember and record and mostly deals with devices.  The blogspot blog records our day to day time on the boat.  This blog was intended to be my diary of sorts and a long term record of my life.  Unfortunately, this blog has taken a back seat to all of my other activities, interests and plans.  I have also said that this is a new leaf and I will write more now.  We shall see – Facebook has destroyed motivation for writing here since FB is more real time and interactive – and we will try to write more often.

BTW Scott, I hope you still read this from time to time.

A Friday in January 2015

I am contributing to Water Water Everywhere again.  Also, listening to TV and listening to the rain on the cockpit enclosure of Inspiration II.  It takes me a long time to get into the grove these days and the main ingredient is the internet and a decent computer.  I have all three right now and am happy with these since I installed a driver for the Radiolabs external antenna.  I am not too sure that it is really working as it should because I see not Windows 10 icon that allows me to test signal strength.

Ponderings of Today

http://www.openbible.info/topics/quick_to_listen_and_slow_to_speak

I have been pondering these verses for the past hour ±.  I want to say something positive but find I had better keep my mouth shut.  What do you do when you hear something that sounds so incredible or out-of-place from a normally credible person?  Enough said since this will last forever.

Later in the day I ran across this article, thanks to Robin, and enjoyed it immensly; however, I was also saddened by the impending loss of a fellow scientist:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1&referrer

DJ Owens RIP

We will be absent from the blog for a while.  In fact, we have been absent already.  Our grandson DJ was sick with non-Hodgkin lymphoma brikket.  In fact, he just lost his battle and will be buried Thursday.  Truthfully, I feel a little low on energy plus we will be traveling to Texas to my son’s house for another grandson’s graduation. Therefore, I will not be writing for another couple of weeks.  Regards to all.

Hillary

Home Sweet Home

There is nothing like home.  We went to church this morning and we saw all our old friends and it felt comfortable.  So very comfortable and able to make one slide into the old groove.  The new pastor will not let this happen I am safe to say. So here we are, still unpacking, getting equipment ready for Spring and still feeling kinda under the weather.  This chest thing is getting me down I fear.  I keep coughing and there is a rattle now and again but I am expectorating and feeling slightly better now that I am home again in Indiana near family, friends, extended family and even old, but dear, enemies.

Even so, I am still researching ship born items like AIS and Chart Plotters on Alibaba.  My heart is at home and restful but my spirit wants to be at sea.  I am sure this condition is related to age and at 70+ years it is a malady confronted by countless generations that are getting old with or without Grace.  I am sure it is the peace of Christ that will finally give me the peace that I yearn for.

As far as we know, Inspiration II is resting at peace in her slip with double lines tied to every possible cleat and position that does not violate nautical protocol.  Steve and others look after her and this gives us comfort.  I hear SAM rattling the dishes above and this means grub is coming soon. Thank God for wives who, doing there duty, with a smile produce food that is tasty and edible but tempsts the palate with things to come.  Thank you SAM.

I feel right now like I must end this missive and find the place to contemplate.  We missed the church service tonight and were missed, due to tests that I received, so the guilty capitulate, but I am so weak I do not have the strength to counter the argument.  To DJ: fight, to Beth: Strength is your virtue, To Marc: I love you, To SAM: thanks for sticking thru thick and thin, boats and all, to Jessica: What a heart and Mind, use it or lose it.  The end of this missive.