When something goes wrong, everyone thinks they know how to fix it. The anchor chain is stuck and has to be hauled in or we will be sitting ducks. Everyone puts their two shillings in and still no resolve. It has to be fixed now !! Try more grease, try more men to haul it in , try more grease, no remove the grease , no use ......STOP just think what happened between the last time it worked and now??? What is different? No the wench's on board did not curse it , no the extra rum consumed had nothing to do with it , well maybe. What is not the same ? Or who is not the same? The last one to set the anchor was Icelandic John, when we were in Port Charles. Today it was set by the new guy, what's his name.. the guy that is from Holland , Holland John he set it. WHAT IS DIFFERENT? Oh Holland John ties the chain off to the aft link to keep the chain from cutting into the hull. ...so we untie the chain and it works and we are on are way .... to bad we lost two good men Holland John and Icelandic John on the way.

Christmas as a pirate is just like Christmas is to everyone else, it's Christmas. As a pirate you really don't give many gifts but you sure do get allot of them, because as a pirate you know that the day is just right to pirate, lots of good stuff out there !!!! It is like a big after Christmas sale, with everything free. (as a pirate every thing is !!!)

It is a very small world when you board a ship and find out that one of the crew you just about cut through is from your home port, and knows your family. How do you explain your behavior? Do you tell them to say "hi "to mom and dad when he gets free from the brig? Make sure he has some rum before he walks the plank? Strand him on a nice island? Give him a dingy with some water, and no holes in it? It nice to be a pirate because it doesn't matter what I do I am still a pirate !

The bigger the better? Not sure if that is always true. A small fast ship can getaway, a small cannon can be moved quickly, and small wenches can be stowed away in a trunk. Now a small sword is a knife, a small gun is a pistol, and a small ship is a dingy, and a small wench is well just a small wench.

They show up out of nowhere, and then they think they are part of the crew, but they are not. These are the " hope they like me and don't kill me" . The poor souls who think the life of a pirate is glamorous. That being a pirate is just an adventure for one to try. We all know a few like this, they want to belong as long as it fits their fancy. The whats cool today and fashionable. As a pirate it is not fashionable ( although I have a nice hat) and as for glamorous, well lets just say there are no bathes on a ship and very little soap if any. There is a glamorous side of pirates , the lady pirates .... but there are only in ones' dreams. ( he real lady pirates would cut you to ribbons if ya ever said the were "glamorous".)

What is the point to all the books of how to pirate ? DO YOU REALLY NEED TO BE TOLD HOW TO PIRATE ? The world is full of books of people telling you how to be like they want you to be or how they think you should be. I think being a pirate is just that, "being a pirate". If I have to explain then you must need to read a book of how to be a pirate.

Life as a pirate can change with the fire of a cannon, the thrust of a cutlass the blast of a musket and the change of the crew. When a new crew member comes on board it is not always easy to welcome them. It is not always their choice to be on board either. Lucky I am a pirate if I don't like who I work with I can always toss them overboard and shanghai someone new. ( well I can't alway shanghai who I want, like a redhead )

They came they went, they said "........."(Nothing) that's it. The King of Pirates stopped by. Oh to be King. Well oh!! to just being a PIRATE !!!