Lost Messages

Cyberspace continues to taunt and tease us. Most of the messages I send manage to get through to Lee and then others just disappear. This makes the phone call time that we have rather frustrating as Lee then asks me about things that I have already told her, but she has not received it. Wastes the call time and leads to doubt. For all I know, Lee could be getting no messages during any given day; so she’s sitting out in the middle of nowhere wondering how come I don’t have time to type 138 character messages to her. I look forward to our phone calls and then get questioned as to why I’ve gone out and left the dog alone, why I’ve gone shopping two days in a row, what did I buy myself – all things I’ve explained to her in messages not delivered.

Anyway, my cry for an email cyber-tracker fell on kind ears and I finally received the email from Lee, about 8 days after it was sent. There was very little news from the boat last night. Wind was very light and they averaged just under 4 knots yesterday. At least it’s better than the 2 knots they were averaging two weeks ago. The weather is otherwise good and the stars were once again very beautiful last night. Lee said it was amazing to go and watch and be able to watch the Moon as well as Venus rising over the horizon, both shining with a bright yellow-orange light.

Both ladies are still doing well and were well on course to sail over the 100 degree line of longitude sometime during the course of last night. 82 degrees down and 35 degrees left. For those that wish to be exact and need to have that in a measurable, they have completed 71% of the journey and have 29% left.
Position can be logged as 38S 100E.

Life at home stays the same, with the weekend once again upon us. It happens to be the end of the month and like most of us, my grocery cupboards and cleaning locker need restocking. The J&B met is on this afternoon, and for those of you that like to put a little money down on a horse, I hear the hot favourite is Igugu (trained and owned by Mike de Kock/Anthony Delpech). A google search shows that it is also voted the 2012 horse of the year. Unbelievable how humans can label something the “best of a year”, yet we have not even finished the first month of that year. Good luck to those that are visiting the Tote.