h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The whole world smiles with you.

What a delightful personal space and single journal...hope to hear more from you.

Hi Phred

Good to see you here I've never gotten around to write about me in my personal space. The vision is the first I saw when I was on a holiday in Tartaronne - then a five farm village in Central Massif, France - three active farms, two let out to families on holidays like ours. Very primitive it was.

My Ace urged me to find a name and write something in my personal space - and tartaronne sort of jumped into my mind, and with the name the first experience from the first morning.

Since then, 3½ years ago, I've happily chatted, read and discussed with people - and never gotten around to rewrite or extend my personal space. Some day....

I read somewhere else that you are retiring in 66 days. Is that so?

It is true. September 30th will be a Friday. My last day of work will be in San Juan Puerto Rico, then I'm diving Saturaday with Captain Angel in Parguerra on Saturday and flying home.

Paraguera is a small fishing village on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico. It has a phosphorescent bay which is best experienced on moonless nights. Sometimes at night, the wake of a boat appears to be illuminated with sparkles. This is very pronounced in Parguera bay. When you are on the bottom at night and turn off your divelight and wave your hand you can see the sparkles and lights caused by tiny creatures. Captain Angel runs a dive boat out about ten miles to some great dives on the "wall"...where the bottom goes straight down.

The journalist kicks in: What is your work? How old are you? Where is home? And will you continue to dive?

What you tell about the dive in Par(a?)guera bay sounds like a adventure.

"I have six honest serving men
They help in all I do
Their names are Where and What and When
And How and Why and Who?"- Kipling

I am the Chief Financial Officer for a Division of a large non-profit organization (you would know the name) my work has been in accounting and information technology.

I am almost 62. I live in Tampa, Florida....While the future is cloudy, I plan to continue to dive. Diving is largely a mental sport, rather than a physical one. A calm, relaxed attitude and good training are the requirements.

I had wondered the same things about you (except for the diving).

http://www.pargueradivers.com/

It's Parguera!

Kipling does sum it up.

I am female, 52 years old, a freelance journalist, writing mostly about social politics and the work with children and adults, handicapped in many ways (socially, mentally, physically), and/or living on the edge of or alongside the life the majority lives in this country.

I live in Ørsted, Denmark, a small town of 1800 inhabitants close to two bigger cities (Danish standard ) Randers and Århus in Jutland. It is a very small country. I can reach anywhere in the country within 4 or 5 hours by car or train except Bornholm, a small island south of Sweden - and Greenland of course.

I have three children from two marriages (32, 18, 16) and a bonuschild (29) - and put together my husband and I have 3 grandchildren.

Why haven't I ever thought of diving? I would like to see the sights in Parguera. Diving seems to be THE trend these days. Everybody who travel(s), learn(s) to dive. (Cannot remember whether the s'es are needed here.)

I would know the name or I wouldn't know the name?

You would know the name.

I have one child (35) and four grandchildren (10,7,4,1) with another coming.

He/she is very productive . Kids are the salt of life, right?

Do your grandchildren live close to you. US is such a big place.

You are not allowed to tell the name?

If you look up Ørsted on google you'll get a lot of funny hits. A famous jazz bass player, an institute that takes part in travels to Mars, named after a famous scientist...but here you can see where we live. http://www.rougsoekom.dk/ - no English button Randers is 25 km. west of here, Århus 45 km to the south.

I've had a look at Tampa gov website - and wondered about all the European names close to you - Inverness, Venice, St. Petersburg - and you used to have an Icepalace (not Winterpalace as in the Russian St. Petersburg) . Interesting Modern Art Museum it seems.

Not a good idea, I think, to link a fun personal place with my company name...People might think I was speaking on their behalf. I write the policies for things like the internet that and I have forbidden it, so I must comply with my own directives.

My grandchildren live eleven hours away, but we are hoping to see more of them soon.

well...time to go to work....later.

>>I must comply with my own directives<<

Of course, to all you said. Seems sensible and the correct thing to do. I forgot where I was. .

11 hours - but it sounds as if you will have more time at hand soon.

Don't say the w*rk-word. It is 14.25 here and I ought to have put in a least 6 hours, but as the deadline is not imminent I tend to procrastinate.

* to read about conditions for mentally handicapped adults in a new communal structure in order to present it to the local politicians*

The Ringling art musuem in Sarasota (60 miles south) claims to be the largest art musuem in the US.

I was taken there as a young child in 1955 and somewhat shocked by the nude statues. My teacher struck me when he thought I was behaving inappropriately.

They produce interesting plays in an Italian replica theatre which I go to every year or two.

Last year I went to the Louvre in Paris and spent all day looking at dutch masters from the 1700-1900. It was a humbling experience which placed our poor Sarasota museum in persopective.

http://www.ringling.org/pages/a_main_frame.html

We do have many beautiful rivers, alligators, sink-holes, beaches and swamps, however.

for the link. I myself appreciate modern art. My father was a painter so I've seen a lot of contemporary art during childhood - and a lot of museums and churches and galleries in France whenever my father got a government grant to go study art other places.

That was the way we could afford holidays. I think Cezanne and a church near Mt. Blanc 'decorated' by several famous artists (Roualt and Matisse I remember off hand) were the main subjects for our trip where we had the base in Tartaronne.

I now have som work related criticism to relate to - so I need to have a think about my future.

See you

Ex-PFC Wintergreen !!



The name raises a faint tinkling in the back of my mind. Please enlighten me. Why this Wintergreen? and what is an Ex-PFC?

with sunny reflections. It seems the summer has returned to this spot on the

Private First Class Wintergreen frequently went AWOL (absent without Oddicial Leave). When he did they would take away his stripes and he would become an ex-PFC. As a punishment they made him dig holes. He accepted this hapily because he knew when the punishment stopped that he would have to go the the front.

Ex-PFC Winter green is a character in an absurd anti-war book by Joseph Heller called Catch-33....The main character is Captain Yossarian....I have a link to Yosaarian on my home page...

Definitely recommended reading if you haven't already....

Sorry I meant Catch -22

Catch-22 that's it

I've read it several times - and was reminded of it again when I read your homepage a while back. So I *did* know the name - not quite dement yet.

I nearly got into trouble comparing something to the catch-22 - somebody suggested a meeting with a psychiatrist - which I had. And came out of it as sane as I went in. A long story - but I've several deadlines to catch.