My friend Ellis. Looks jolly, nice, even fun; all deception. In this picture you see a cunning, ruthless, merciless, deceptive, possibly unscrupulous, and cold blooded chess player. First game, he creamed me. Second game he won, but he had to work for it. Third game I won, slow and steady beat him. Fourth game was mine, I was up a rook, knight and a pawn, just a matter of time. Then he made a move that strongly suggested, almost promised he'd trade queens with me straight across. I fell into his vicious, depraved trap and snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. I felt like the Seattle Seahawks.

At Sea (Wednesday and Thursday) Mike here.  Gave Edie two days off, forgot, didn’t write anything myself and so have a few pictures to look at and try to remember.  We needed some rest time after Turkey.  At sea days …

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