Stephen wrote:

> 
> Good to hear from you again. The oil industry is not one for ever especially if
> you don't like the responsibility of telling people what to do. I used to carry
> my own tools ;)

Thanks.

"No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, 
plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. 
True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to 
spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of 
thing is unpleasant enough. It touches one's sense of honor, 
particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the 
van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if 
just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been 
lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in 
awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from the 
schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and 
the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in 
time." -Melville

> I hope that your future business does well but if you don't have much experience
> in catering it might be a good idea to get a job in it first. (My brother-in-law
> is a chef and he tells some horror stories about owners full of good intentions
> but no experience. It is a business after all and you should make money ;)

Wife's got 16 years experience. She would run the coffee shop; I'd hold 
the purse. :) And though it should indeed make money, it wouldn't *have* 
to. I'm not counting on it for my livelihood.

> Anyway report back in November and start posting some of your images when you
> can.
> 

No more images from me, though I have been piddling around with some 
re-renders. I'll post any if they're fresh enough to be interesting to 
those who have seen the originals.

  -Shay

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