My friend Alex is Flying to Rio (Brazil) on Tuesday. After that I’m going to wrap up a few things and decompress in the San Blas for a while. I want to pull the plug on everything for a few months. The root canal and visit from Alex cleaned me out financially and when I’m broke the best treatment is always to go to sea. I’m going to get a gallon of spar varnish ($25.00), some sanding disks for the grinder, and a few tubes of 5200. That will keep me busy for 6 weeks or so. I’ll work on Splendid during the mornings (cool), in the afternoons I will spear fish (hot), and in the evenings I will work on videos, blogs, and my book. I want a totally secluded anchorage and will only come out of hiding for a charter. Speaking of charters, raffle tickets are still available in the store. Also if your interested the next few months is a good time for me.
Alex and I were thinking to maybe rekindle an old relationship but we are so wrong for each other its comical, we’ve had a good laugh about it. I’m good alone and I get the most done that way. I am a solo sailor, and that’s not such a bad thing to be. I’m putting a 3 week expiration date on all potential relationships (superficial), I think I go bad after a few weeks anyway :)
I’m trying a new bread recipe, and man does it smell good in Splendid right now. I’m going to teach you guys how to make bread and yoghurt in an upcoming video, probably not the one I’ll be posting next week, but the following one. Real men not only hunt, but bake too! Ha…, I just took it out of the oven, buttered a piece, and my bread has reached a new plateau! FANTASTIC :)
Well I’m in a fair amount of pain coupled with splitting head aches. I go back on Tuesday for the final appointment on my root canal. My ears often feel like they have ice picks in them. I’ve been speaking to a doctor friend of mine and I’m going to start a two week run of Amoxicillin to make sure the infection is out of my jaw bone. No beer for two weeks :( That should give me just enough time to finish up some projects here and head out to the islands. I’m worried about the infection in my jaw spreading to other places. My friend Rogers brother had the same problem recently. He lost all of his teeth and nearly died when the infection was reaching his spine. Before I go I want to make sure I’m out of the woods on this. Perhaps I’ve had a brine infection for years and that’s what I’m doing out here ? :)
Anyway, root canal finished next week, new video to be posted next week, and I’m hoping to put the final touches on the Kubota project, if I don’t, it may end up in the drink. I’m rethinking my life and want to over-simplify. I lost the $500 water maker to my root canal. I did fine for years on Namaste without a water maker, and my tanks on Splendid are three times the size, I shouldn’t have any problems, especially alone. I’m growing really tired of screwing around with ship and not sailing!!!!
Peace, Love, and Life!!!!
– Alex