Month: February 2007

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Happy Valentine’s Day Laura and K³ !

17 years old... and in love way back then! Happy Valentine's Day Sweetheart!My Uncle Cal — a scientist by birth and a mathematician at heart — referred to my three daughters Kristin, Karen and Karla as K³ …. and it has stuck with me ever since.

Valentine’s Day has a long History and Wikipedia has a nice blurb if you take the time to read it. A couple of exerpts amused me…. allow me to share these morsels:

 

“A recent trend has been to refer to February 14 as Singles Awareness Day.”

(nah… singles are just ‘practicing at love’)

“In …. (Iran) this popular date is discreetly celebrated by most lovers despite the disapproval of such occasion by the hardline Islamic government as a copycat of the West.”

(even ‘love’ — I guess — has to be approved by the mullahs)

Well, Valentine’s Day is a great Day to remember those you love….

Happy Valentines Day  Laura and K³

Roger Freberg 

 

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Terrorist ‘Chic’ walks the London Runway?

Photo on YahooOkay, boys and girls, I know this isn’t going to sound too Politically Correct… but outside of folks named Osama, who’s gonna buy this stuff?

Believe it or not this is what is ‘haute coulture’ on the London Fashion scene. Want more pics? Now, I know a few women who might actually look good in this sort of thing… names starting with Hillary or Dixie Chics… but this is the sort of thing that sets the old time machine back to the times when three women sold for one cow.

Well, I guess we all get to thank this month’s Weenie Award winner as described by Yahoo: “A model wears an outfit by Fashion East designer Louise Golden during her catwalk show at London Fashion Week in London, Monday Feb. 12, 2007.”

You can read more about Fashion East and their ‘young designers’ here. However, real Islamic fashions can be found elsewhere.

I just might go for this sort of thing if it was marketed better… maybe, if we were told that this is cold weather gear… but then, the bare legs say another thing.

Roger Freberg

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Jenny Craig Dinner…. super sized!

Jenny Craig Dinner.... plus sized
Actually, I designed this meal to actually tease my fellow dieters Karen and Laura.

Laura is on a Jenny Craig 1200 Calorie plan and Karen is on a 1700 Calorie plan now that they are ‘successful dieters’… when you succeed, they drop your calorie intake as you approach your goal. I think they do this to help you along… good idea.

In any event, they protest loudly that I … on a 2300 calorie plan … can actually lose weight… and they protest even louder as it means I get an ‘extra’ meal. I combined my dinner (chili) and my extra meal (turkey burger) into a fine combo meal! Along with the ‘free foods’ of Zuccini and baby onions ( seasoned with Susie Q)… it was…. WONDERFUL!

It does look kinda wonderful doesn’t it? Makes you forget you are actually on a diet.

Roger Freberg

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Remembering Anniversaries isn’t so tough….

Happy monthly anniversary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remembering any anniversary, guys, isn’t all that tough… if you make it a game.

The ‘prize’ ( you choose) goes to the one who remembers first. I always thought it was unmistakeably romantic of the Germans to have an anniversary for 400 months of marital bliss… very cool.

Happy 413th month anniversary, Hun. Thanks for keeping it fun.

Roger

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Pirates of the Seas …. yep, they’re out there!

Pirares in dez waters, me hardy!

 

I don’t know how much anyone ever follows Piracy on the high seas… but it really isn’t a thing of the past and although the number of confrontations doesn’t come anywhere close to what happens on land… it is obviously horrific for the civilized gentry caught in a robbery.

A modern day Piracy may be a simple robery… but as they say in the movies …’dead men tell no tales’ and unfortunately… the sea is a great place to bury your dead.

Here’s one example of a Piracy at sea:

“Further details of the two incidents in the northwest of the Malacca
Strait off Sumatra have now emerged, revealing that they took place in
broad daylight, not at night as first reported, and that the pirates were
armed with AK-47 rifles and grenade launchers.” (July 2006)

Pirates as pictured in SailInteresting? SAIL magazine did an excellent job of pointing out some of the risks and providing it’s middle aged audience with practical advice…. but I think I would be more impressed if it gave a list of where one could buy ‘stuff’ to repell such attacks.

Here’s what SAIL lists are the ways to spot pirates ( I will paraphrase):

1) Pirates use small boats traveling fast (gas is expensive and local fisherman seldomm travel fast)

2) Most fishing boats have a crew of 3… if there are more in a boat or more boats… trouble is brewing

3) If you don’t spot fishing gear… then the boat may be after ‘bigger game’

4) If the boat that is following you is far from their government’s fishing grounds….

5) Birds normally flock around fishing boats… no birds = no fish = pirates.

6) Regardless of crew size… if you see weapons… avoid these folks… duh

By the way, I would like to thank North Sails for the complementary copy of Sail Magazine… it is fascinating.Plus, I couldn’t resist buying some sale items from their shop.

So, what are other folks saying about sailing?

What about Bob?

Valencia Sailing

Florida Boating

Royal Yaulting Association

 

Roger Freberg