September 12, 2013

  • Mission

    The number last week was 339. The number this week 333.

    Insiders predict 320 by 9/30. Sub-300 before 11/28. Set your odds accordingly.

    Cyrus once said, "He knows what to do, he just has to do it."

    It is being done.

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    Does anyone else realize how hard it is to get non-Chinese ditch-bugs outside of Louisiana? I found frozen Chinese tails in Denver. In Miami, I saw them whole cooked in the seafood case for about a month. There are places in Louisiana that will over-night a cooler's worth, but it is not cheap. Maybe they all taste like BP oil nowadays, and I am being spared that nastiness.

    I am looking to make some etoufee. I do not want to be stuck with contaminated farm-raised Vietnamese shrimp as a substitution.

    *****

    Bone can go ahead and choke on his $54 Edelman.

    *****

    No one will know what I am talking about, but in case I get lucky, I am going to ask this question anyway:

    In Avalon Hill's Dreadnoughts for the Apple IIe, if the Prinz Eugen is sunk, the crippled Bismark is out of ammo, and a similarly out-of-ammo Hermione will not disengage in Battle mode, how do I force an exit from Battle mode so that I can steam toward harbor and/or encounter a capital ship that can put me out of my misery? I am sure I have victory conditions already, but I cannot resolve the game. Any suggestions would be appreciated.