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Friday, January 27, 2006

South Carolina

999.3 miles. I'm not kidding. That's what the little "trip" thing read in my car when I pulled into my driveway. 999.3 miles from Iowa City to my home here in SC.

Here's a little review of the last two days...

Iowa. Illinois. Indiana. Ohio. Kentucky. Tennessee. North Carolina. South Carolina.

I'm beat. Good night!

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Side note and a little later...

Some of you know my utter terror of jellyfish...well, I couldn't resist sharing this article...I'm not the only one who can't handle jellyfish! :)

Jellyfish Take on Nuclear Warship...

THE USS Ronald Reagan can single-handedly take on a nation's armed forces but met its match in Moreton Bay's jellyfish.

The slimy invertebrates were being sucked into the 97,000 tonne ship at such a rate generators were constantly switched over and local fire crews placed on stand-by as the creatures disabled full on-board capacities.

In June 2004 a P&O cruise liner was stranded in Brisbane after a school of jellyfish also blocked the engines' water intake vent.

The world's largest aircraft carrier was due to leave Brisbane at 8am today after the 6000 crew enjoyed five days of shore leave.

The jellyfish have exposed the giant ship's weakness, a humble button, screw or piece of litter can bring the 332-metre behemoth to a standstill.

Under the FOD, or foreign object damage protocol, any alien object can ruin the ship's intricate workings or endanger the take-off or landing of one of the ship's 80 fighter planes.

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