lost in the triangle

no. i haven't been taken away by the nsa or whomever for my comments about neo-cons. i've been in bermuda. actually, i should use present tense. i AM in bermuda. since sunday. it's nice. very f'ing nice. i've finally landed someplace that has free wifi access (the b&b where the wife and i are staying), so i thought i'd give a quick update. from sunday until today, we've been staying at the fairmont southampton. very nice, very ritzy, very, very expensive. very much not our speed. the good thing is, we didn't pay for the trip. work did. turns out i do pretty well at my day job, so they sent us, and a lot of my other good coworkers to bermuda for a reward trip. they left today. we went across the island, all 21 miles of it, to st george's to stay at this great b&b called aunt nea's. it's not as nice, not nearly as ritzy, half the price and is very much our speed. the only bad thing about st. george's is that the cruise ships dock here, so as i'm typing this i can look out from the balcony and see this behemoth cruise boat and hear some awful karaoke version of "honky tonk women". it might not be karaoke; it's possible the stones have found a new way to make an assload of money by playing to the senior citizen captives of ncl cruise lines.

we've seen some pretty cool stuff, and as soon as i get the pictures pulled off the digital camera i'll try to post some of them. we've taken catamaran tours, snorkled, and more or less been wined and dined on the man's nickle. now we're on our nickle and are enjoying ourselves very much, thank you. for those of us who like to partake of the more potent spirits, this would be an expensive trip. we're talking $14 glasses of scotch and wine. lucky for us, every dinner was preceded by a cocktail hour, so we managed to get imbibed without breaking the bank. i'm very much looking forward to spending the next few days sleeping late, wandering around this gorgeous little port town and letting myself recover from keeping my guard up around the corporate types. i think tomorrow we'll head down to the beach at tobacco bay or achilles bay and maybe take in fort st catherine's, the naval base that the british built some time after landing. i'm truthfully not thinking about anything past falling asleep in the next few minutes.

i'll try to come back tomorrow nite and give more details of our "roman holiday" type exploits. as for now, i'm going to finish my dark and stormy, catch up on some email and try to figure out how mick, keith and the boys got the stage show on the gargantuan IV.