Picture added in 2016. It's a sandbar in the Bahamas that likes to eat boats. There's 16 of them in this scene.
Miami, 6:33 AM. Today I received 21 e-mail messages. [Unusual for me at that time.] Oddly, no word from the West, where things should be happening. On the lighter side, the evening meeting was short, but an interesting fact came out: almost every Canadian present and had a warrant out for their arrest issued within two years after they left Canada. There is got to be something funny with the Canadian legal system over that one.
I watched “Rising Sun” and listened to the neighborhood dogs bark. Jamie is leaving for a week, notice how it gets better. The minute she got rid of Rob? That leaves a huge margin to set up the project 21 jigs and complete the displays the next weekend.
Many are asking if we got a response from the Guinness people. No. I mailed them Labor Day weekend 2002, and not a sound came back. I do not have time to imagine how their thinking works. They sure moved fast when some 12 year old rolled up an 80 inch ball of tape in Boca Raton on and quit because “it got too big to fit through the door”.
[Author's note: "Rising Sun", starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. Not their strongest roles. I had thought it was a war movie. Snipes can kick five Japs down but can't get a naked hooker off his back. However a good point was made, that other countries consider us totally corrupt, but that's just because we are.
The majority of my neighbors are Hispanic, and will deny that their dog is barking. That's a comment on custom, not race. I lived in South America and the Caribbean longer than any of them.]
[Author's note 2016: The Miami Herald reported the story about the ball of tape in late October 2002. In the end, our million count was never in the Book of World Records because they [Guiness] insisted they would not print any such thing unless it was a sports story. There was no way we could spin that one.]
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