HAVE A GOOD 2008

Let’s see … they’re rioting in Kenya over their elections, in Pakistan (our only ally in that lovely little corner of the Fourth World), our economy is getting iffy (but not as bad — yet — as the MSM would have it), there’s as much Hillary in the news as there is Iraq (which is to say just about none), a tiger kicked some ass at a zoo in San Francisco (ah, but where else?), the Giants get a chance to end the Patriot’s shot at an undefeated season tonight (we’ll see. Stranger things have happened), and the candidates for president are busy working Iowa and New Hampshire, except for Rudy who appears to be concentrating on the other New York — Florida — where the locals know what he did in the Apple.

There are no riots having to do with politics in the US … but then there never are and that’s why we’re the best there is, no matter what we do. Ahh, good ol’ American Exceptionalism. I love it so.

Of note in the non-political arena:

•Mavericks is still on hold for the big wave contest and there are some decent swells heading its way, but I don’t think they’ll be contest swells unless one starts to drop south (where it’s not predicted to);
•Cave divers connected two systems in Florida in a marathon six hour dive/14 hour decompression/seven mile dive on December 15/16 in the Wakulla/Leon Sinks cave systems, the longest cave dive anywhere (For more on that go HERE);
•There’s an expedition forming, due to go in November 2008, to recover the bodies of four Navy men who were buried after a crash during Admiral Byrd’s fourth expedition to Antarctica. More info HERE;
•And you can check out the latest in underwater communications HERE .

As for me … here’s wishing you all a safe and happy 2008. As usual, unless some insanity really pisses me off between then and now, I’ll be taking a break until the new year.

Have a good one.