08 September 2005 19:53

A Checklist, Several Secondhand Facts, And A Bad Joke, Upon Travelling To The United Kingdom

passport: check.

borrowed camera: check.

36 lbs. of American shampoo hand-carried to London relatives: Check.

The New Orleans relatives say their house is dry, wasn't looted, and should be liveable whenever they can go back to stay. One of these years.

And, per the Mercy Ships email circuit, the Caretakers have returned to the abandoned Caribbean Mercy - in advance of relief teams about to be sent from the IOC who will lodge on the ship and help clean up Chickasaw. Yeah, there was at least a dollar ninety-nine worth of damage....

Heh heh [ahem] Sorry.