Hello all

[Rasputin]

It's been a while and I'm just checking in. I hope everyone is doing well.

I've got got nothing new to report. I'm still happily married (second time was a charm) and have been busy raising step kids, doing a lot of charity work, practicing law, and trying to develop my little real estate vacation rental business so I can hopefully retire in about six years.

Hurricane season remains stressful as always and the pandemic is not without its financial and health anxieties but work from home rocks. All of the courts in my area have moved to video proceedings so I almost exclusively work from home. I believe when all settles down,  this is the future and I love it.

Anyhow, carry on...there's nothing much to see here.

[PDH]

But...but...but...how is the boat?

[grumbler]

Wow!  Blast from the past!

You probably won't be surprised that not much has changed here, either.  I used to bitch about the Shrubbery, not I bitch about the Trumpeters. 

I retired from teaching for about six weeks this summer, but they pulled me back in to teach one course of my choice, because they needed to keep class sizes down.  I'm kinda liking the four-day weekends every week.

Good to hear from you. 

[Eddie Teach]

I thought you'd been poisoned, stabbed and drowned! How the heck are you still alive? 

WB LJ

[Rasputin]

But...but...but...how is the boat?

Which one? 

I have an addiction, but for which, I'd have already been retired.

I've downsized to a 23' center console that's on a lift behind my house. I cruise up and down the river but the Bachnalia is over.

Once a year I bareboat charter a 50+ footer somewhere for nine days. Last year we rented one in in raietea (French Polynesia) with an ambition of seeing all of the Society Islands. We reached bora bora on day three and loved it so much we just circled bora bora for the next five days. For any who have ever thought about going, it's the prettiest place I've ever seen, and was worth the nineteen or so hours of flight to get there.

This year we have a 51 rented in st Lucia and we will be hopping the grenadines to the south. I've been to Saint Lucia but not to the islands to the south so I'm excited.

[Rasputin]

Wow!  Blast from the past!

You probably won't be surprised that not much has changed here, either.  I used to bitch about the Shrubbery, not I bitch about the Trumpeters. 

I retired from teaching for about six weeks this summer, but they pulled me back in to teach one course of my choice, because they needed to keep class sizes down.  I'm kinda liking the four-day weekends every week.

Good to hear from you.

What do they have you teaching?

I've missed your keen insight into the only sport that matters, college football, but alas it's already painful to be a nole and we are only one week into the season.

[Rasputin]

I thought you'd been poisoned, stabbed and drowned! How the heck are you still alive? 

WB LJ

I don't worry about the death threats; they are like barking dogs. It's the quiet ones that just stare at me that cause me to exercise my concealed carry rights. 

[jimmy olsen]

Hi!

I'm teaching at a University now and have a two year old girl.

[The Brain]

Hi! I hang out on Languish these days.

[Eddie Teach]

How the lowly have fallen. 

[Syt]

Hello

[Rasputin]

Hi!

I'm teaching at a University now and have a two year old girl.

Congrats on both. What do you teach?

[Barrister]

Hey Ras - about a year ago you PMed me about a Canadian law question.  You wanted me to call you, but I couldn't because out-of-country calls are blocked on our government phones.   I PMed you back asking you to call me, but I never heard any more about it.

What was that all about?

[Sheilbh]

Hello!

[Rasputin]

Hey Ras - about a year ago you PMed me about a Canadian law question.  You wanted me to call you, but I couldn't because out-of-country calls are blocked on our government phones.   I PMed you back asking you to call me, but I never heard any more about it.

What was that all about?

Someone defrauded one of my clients. I had a $9mm judgment against the fraudfeasor who ran some of the money through the a Royal Bank of Canada do I was trying to figure out who to hire to open a proceeding and follow it. It turned out to be a dead end. We only collected about 2.4 on the 9 and the fraudreasor is going to be in federal prison because of the other 12 victims of his crimes who got nothing.