Virtual Existence Time Machine

 (This is a post from my blog on writing.com. This was a prompt)   It's Saturday and the flea market is open. What treasures did you discover? Do you actively look for certain items? Or do you buy closed boxes because you like mysteries? What kind of shopper are you? After the years in Iran, and now Belize, I haven't seen a flea market for many years. In these countries everything is used and reused until it is totally garbage-dust. Large families absorb everything and dispose of virtually nothing. In Belize, what we do get are containers full of used clothing from the US. Twice a week new stuff is put out and usually sold by the pound. I guess like Goodwill on a grand scale. Now this is not fancy clothing, just jeans, shorts, t-shirts, jackets, slacks, pullovers, kids clothes, etc. I don't know, maybe the overflow from all the giant flea markets gets shipped here? The last flea market I visited was in 2005 in Paris. Wow! that was amazing. A 100 year-old i...

A little technical, but interesting to boat people and engineering minds...   Our boat is Pania, a Ferro-Cement, 30,000 lb 45' Cutter sailboat (The only cement yacht in Belize with electric motor) with an AC-34 Motor and Curtis Controller from Thunderstruck. It's programmed for 4000+ RPM with a 3.3-1 pulley reduction for the shaft that we have built. We had the mounting plate done here and have used some parts from Toyota Corolla . Used the front wheel thrust bearing and CV joint at the end of the shaft putting a flange from the back wheel. There is no shop over here to go and buy pulleys and cog wheels .So timing pulleys did the job after some refitting. It was all to keep the cost down because most of our budget went to customs, taxes and shipping . The Ferro-Cement hull was built in 1975 in Florida (Canadian design). We got the boat after it had sat for several years with leaking windows and the bilges overflowing. Ugh! Took some time and a lot of cleaning...

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Agatha Christie I just finished my second novel...and it only took ten years! The getting started part was easy. The getting the work completed was daunting, faced with distractions and other commitments. It has been only since joining writing.com (WDC) and getting focused and motivated has the actual writing happened. Thanks to my fine friends at WYRM the book, APEX PROJECT is finally into the area of an entire science-fiction novel that needs tweaking, trimming and fine tuning to finish. What a good feeling! Now I know that Miss Christie's advice about getting started has to happen every time you wake up for a new day.   Getting started is never a completed action.  Live with it! Happy writing all... (or whatever you intend to do) >>>iggy