The lovely bunny only has a few weeks off between semesters, so we've got to get all the sightseeing and recreating in we possibly can.

I was in the Florida panhandle last week, enjoying southern-style seafood and oppressive humidity, but mainly working. Rather than head home, I worked Saturday and travelled Sunday to San Antonio and drove down to beautiful Corpus Christi--just in time for the hurricane, or tropical storm to make landfall--we won't know until tomorrow afternoon I suppose. Dolly is supposed to make landfall somewhere on the Texas/Mexico coast and I'm starting to see news trucks around town, hoping for a good walloping we can all blame on George Bush.

Judging from the people I've been talking to, not many are planning to evacuate, which isn't mandatory during a category one storm. Nevertheless precautions are being taken--windows boarded up, flashlights and batteries checked, etc... Me? I just topped of the tank in case I have to skedaddle back to San Antonio.

I'm not a big fan of the beach, but I do enjoy typical southern-style seafood boil and Mexican shrimp cocktails which are a combination of pico de gallo, avocada and cold shrimp. I had one yesterday, another today, and I'll eat another one tomorrow if I can.

Within sight of my hotel room balcony is the U.S.S. Lexington, a museum ship now, but formerly an Essex class aircraft carrier. I got off work too late to tour her, but I'll try again tomorrow. The Lexington was named the Cabot when her keel was laid, but when the namesake ship was sunk, she was rechristened as the fifth ship of that name, commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord during the revolutionary war. She served from 1942 to 1991, having been refitted on a number of occasions. She was declared sunk by the Japanese at least three times. The second world war U.S.S. Lexington was painted a dark blue, giving it the nickname the "Blue Ghost", but its now painted standard drab naval gray.