Positive attitude.

After buying Melissa's engagement ring, I'm broke as hell.

But I like to think of it as a regression to an archaic barter system where gold and diamonds are everyday currency.

In that case, I'm still broke as hell, but I'm engaged to someone who is filthy rich.

Photographer

I am not a photographer.

I do not own a nice camera.

My camera that I do own does not take nice pictures.

Still, The Sky Is My Garden inspires me not only to write, but also to take a stab at photography.

I think you will get a kick out of this one Mitch, it was taken in the bell-tower of The Basilica del Voto Nacional.

The church is over 600 years old, yet this room and its walkways are a recent remodel.

Reminds of M. C. Escher.

Winter Randy : Oct. 26th 2011 - March 26th 2012

Tuesdays always find me blindly stumbling my way into the shower after my alarm clock's awful song rings out for a second time.

This day came with an additional bonus.  After my shower, after I had raised my core level of alertness and put on my glasses, I noticed and remembered that my beard had became a goatee.

Winter Randy of 2011-2012 fame now gets to live the rest of existence in the retirement of the past, and Spring Randy 2012 takes off into a frosty yet warmly beautiful day.

I am excited, for I have not felt a breeze on my cheeks since before Halloween.

That day on this day

Here, at the Mitad del Mundo monument in Quito Ecuador, I proposed to Melissa.  If we had been at this location today, since it is directly on the equator, a unique phenomenon would have occurred:

The absence of all shadows.

Not bad for a St. Clair.

Hotele Vieja Cuba!

Trying to book a hotel in the third world from the first has been a headache.

But my dart has hit the bullseye!

Quito, here we come...