T-Minus 12 and Counting

     It doesn't matter what you call it, 12 months or 1 year, it's a short amount of time. The countdown continues and so do the preparations. Sharon has finished those projects to reduce snail mail. Over the course of the next year we will still need to monitor all mail we receive. As mentioned in the T- Minus 13 blog entry, we will be subscribing($) to a mail service to receive our snail mail and forward($) our mail to a location of our choice with ample notice to the service. We want to reduce mail (weight) which has to be forwarded($). Most mail services also offer a scan option ($), where they scan($) the envelope so that you can then view the envelope online($) and make a decision to trash it or forward($) it. And if you would like to pay another fee($), they will open($) your mail and scan($) the envelope's contents for viewing online($) , so once again you can decide to trash it or forward ($) it with your next mail package($). Did you catch the underlying theme ($) here?

     As a preparations bonus this past month, Sharon has decided to enter all of her recipes into a database (RecipeMaster) she downloaded from the net. This will minimize storage of all the recipes she has on paper. RecipeMaster will also allow us to access recipes by categories, ingredients or country of origin . Sharon has also been able to adapt the program to our dining habits by modifying categories and ingredients. As our live-aboard adventures take us to different regions of the world, we will be able to enter those local recipes that we like into our database. I already know of one recipe, the Abyssinia Special, Sharon can enter into her database whenever we catch up Kim and Eric on board the M/V Abyssinia. The Abyssinia Special is a crab and halibut recipe we've discussed in our earlier blog entry "Flashback Alaska - Call me anything but late for Dinner".