If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold.
If schooners, islands, and maroons,
And bucaneers and buried gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please as me, they pleased of old
The wiser youngsters of to-day:
So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studios youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie.
sometime tomorrow morning rich will be sailing under and past the golden gate bridge of california. he’s joined his father gene and his brother tom to sail the bill of rights from san francisco to los angeles which will take about 5 days. to him and all his kin: may the wind be always at your back.
shop news: seeking to take immediate advantage of his absence, i put everything in the shop at 10%+ off! i throw the plus in there because i like integers over floats, so get this: i rounded the discount up. this means you win. in fact, i just spent an hour going through and manually modifying the price for each item. talk about a headache. i’m pretty sure i might have screwed up on some of the prices, too, as i caught myself twice marking the product as $0. i caught those, but the fact is there could be more. now, before you go and spend an hour looking through every product, note that i’m not saying there is. just that it’s possible (not probable — there is a difference). and if there are, well, i’m so sick of looking at prices i’m only going to change it if i see an order come in for it (of course, honoring the $0 price (or just miscalculated discount) i missed for that order). regardless, you better not wait too long to pick something up seeing as rich is going to be super pissed as soon as he’s back on land.
