The bad news is that it is a staff infection, the good news is that it is "sensitive" to some of the new drugs. It should be gone in a week or so. What next? Well, writing a book this winter, but I also plan to race in the PHRF series starting next week and attend the 2004 B.E.E.R. ( Backwater Environmental Emergency Rendezvous) cruise with the trailer sailors -trailersailor.com. After that, I'm planning a trip to Montana next summer to float (canoes) a 160 mile wild and scenc stretch of the Missouri river with some friends. I hope to take Miss T with me and sail her at the Apostle Islands, and finally get to sail the North Channel of Lake Huron. Beyond that I'm not sure, but I do hear the Bahamas calling! As with all the trips, anyone who wishes to come along is sure welcome. John Edwards Miss T M17 # 372