Jere Lull wrote in news:2008080102564175249-
jerelull@maccom:

Danged, I'd hate to maintain all those systems. (and all this ain't
news to Skip and Lydia.)



If you've hung around Skip for a day, you know how calm he is. Most people
would have gone crazy from what they've been through, but not Skip. Life
throws something nasty at him, and he just carrys on solving whatever is
broke to whatever works, hardly losing his smile.

When we were in the throes of the alternator disaster, he worked in that
hot engine room on top of the hot Perkins for hours. The boat has no AC.
I nearly died of the South Carolina heat handing him tools and stuff as he
just carried on, calmly without any apparent frustration I could see. When
we found out the battery charger had been eaten by a leaky seawater hose
dripping on it, we walked down the dock and I took him to Waste Marine for
another one.....cooly and calmly.

It's unnatural not to just stand and curse once in a while. I'd explode
and wipe out a small city if I kept it bottled up like he does.

He's absolutely the calmest person on the planet. He should have been a
diplomat or poker player because you just can't read him by his smiling
face....(c;