Of Ships and Other Things

OAFS Photo

I had snapped that picture above a while back, mid-October and then forgotten all about it. Until today.

It seems that I have gotten out of the habit of blogging after my self-imposed exile from that. It felt like I was gone a long while (wasn't really more than a week or so) but during that period I realized that blogging had become something of an all consuming passion. I wasn't reading as much as I used to (heck, I could go through a book a week, given the time to do so, back in the day) and that bothered me, a lot.

Then my laptop died (heard the other day, it's irrecoverable, sucks, but there it is¹). I was frustrated just a bit. The old desktop still limps along (I'm using it now) but all the games I enjoyed needed the speed of that laptop. Now what?

I know, catch up on movies and TV series I wanted to watch and/or revisit (doing the Boardwalk Empire thing now, watched The Wire before that), perhaps even pick up reading again. Which I did.

But here's the thing, I love to write, it's in my blood now. So I'm back at it, but perhaps not as intensely as before. Which means, sad to say, that the fiction will be on the back burner for a while. Probably after the holidays I'll pick it up again.

Oh yeah, about that picture.

I was stuck in traffic on the way to work (check out my side mirror in the lower right corner of the photo) when I saw something interesting off to port. (Well, something interesting other than the great view from atop the Mt. Hope Bridge.) So I snapped a photo, and completely forgot about it, until today when I was looking for something to blog about.

A ship of some kind. See a lot of them up here we do. Below is what I saw (full resolution cropped version of the opening photo).

OAFS Photo

And zoomed in ...

OAFS Photo

Looks like the sort of ship one would use to haul big things around, kind of like a ship flatbed. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what they're called? (I'm too lazy to look it up.)

In other news ...

Broke a frigging tooth Thursday night, great way to start the weekend, neh? Fortunately there isn't any pain, it's a tooth which has probably seen more than one repair, probably had a root canal at some point. But half of it sheared off when I bit down on a mint, the remainder of the mint seemed a bit, you know, hard. Uh uh, tooth, not mint. Still no pain, getting it fixed first thing Monday morning.

So I've got that going for me.

The weekend's other big thing is that The Missus Herself and I will be winterizing the koi pond. Before things freeze up, dontcha know? Then maybe I'll go see Ridley Scott's Napoleon, keeping in mind that I am going for entertainment, not educational, purposes. I like his movies. If I wanted a history lesson, I'd read a book.

Which I think I'll go do now.

Be seeing you.

¹ Thankfully The Naviguesser had gotten a rather good warranty with that when he got it for me. Smart lad. I will be able to replace said laptop.