Good Morning Vietnam!!!  Thinking about quirky and Robin Williams popped into my brain.  But for now my brand of quirky is that we were doing some serious messing around with this blog site last evening and what resulted is on the quirky side which on reflection is probably a good thing.  We wanted to upgrade the site to take advantage of features that would make it better as showing pictures.  And that happened, if you look for gallery and click on that.  Also, we had to cut and paste all the old blog entries and put them in the correct format and they got in their “ass backwards” so a quirky deal is that some go forward in time and some backward.

Vashon Island has always gotten the rap as a quirky place.  So, living here for over forty years I must be quirky too, I suppose.  We’re small but like Mighty Mouse, feisty and on the map.  Does anyone remember Might Mouse?

Thinking quirky, something in the country of Malta comes to mind.  I want to seriously talk about Malta at some point coming up.  I have friends and readers there.  Hi to the Maltese!!  But in one of the old towns and the name escapes me now but there is a church that was built in the 1500’s.  That is not unusual for Malta.  But it has two steeples and on each one is a large clock which as I remember shows the hour only.  The clocks are easily read from the street and handy for the pedestrian.  But the quirky deal is that they have two different times on them on purpose.  Don’t ask he how to tell which one is correct.  The explanation is that they did that at the time to fool the Devil!  Anything to screw up the Devil was a good thing is the idea.  Yea.

Rebecca, my dear wife,  loves movies about quirky people.  Movies, as “What About Bob”, “Oh, Brother Where Art Thou”, “Mixed Nuts”, “Harold and Maude”, “The Commitments”, “The Sapphires”, “Hearts of the West”, “Blues Brothers” come to mind, quirky all.  Now that I think about it maybe that was why she was attracted to me.  Hmm.  And I have been trying all these years to be normal.  That’s a clue.

Enough of that, the important thing to focus on is that this is a brand new day!  What are we going to make of it?  SJA, Phil.