WIPE-OUT!

That's an old surfing term, wipe-out that is, from back in my younger days. Oh, well, in my imagination, at least. Fact is, I wrote a rather long post on January 5, and totally erased it, and I do not know what I did. Guess I'll test the tides by publishing this before I go any farther. I was quite annoyed and I pouted a few days before trying again. I wish I wasn't such a novice at the computer. Heck, you should have seen the ancient Remington that I learned to type on, then you'd say, "You've come a long way, baby!" In case I lose this and it floats forever out there in cyberspace, I have only one thing to say, and that is: Life's a beach, isn't it? Life's a beach,