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Attack of the Wi-Fi Girls Part IV - a Nautical View of the Wireless World

Life in Congo, Part IV - Riverman Buck

Atkins Squirrel - Foraging in the City - McBee just wants to get it right, and ends up on the County Weirdo List. "...What about meat? I watched a squirrel hopping along outside my window, fattened up on walnuts, hazelnuts, and the occasional road-kill pigeon, and asked myself: Why the hell not?"

Feel like there's a weasel in your gut? Could be Giardiasis - brought to you by that charming little parasite with whom campers commune. McBee details Giardia symptoms, treatment and prevention.

Carnage of the Cute: Ladybugs invade a rifle range - "...As the sun grew warmer and the smell of sulfur and gun powder filled the air, "they" began their invasion. It was comical at first, as they lighted on our barrels and sneaked into our sights. Occasionally, the little shelled cuties crawled along the rim of my glasses. Then, they started biting, and crawling up our shirts, in my pants and on our necks...."

Marry An Orphan, and seven more excellent guidelines for better living, in The Wendy Way.

Bake yourself an Orange Coconut Angel Food cake for Mother's Day or whatever spring holiday you have, and maybe share it, maybe not - the Casual Cook brings you a sure-fire dessert hit.

Life in Congo, Part 3- Typical Day - "...The most popular dance closely resembles the 'grind', and dark-skinned beauties with perfect bodies will stand there, eyes closed, and slowly, sensually twist and thrust their way through song after song... it’s nicer than I can describe. I pretend to not notice when I’m sitting with my girlfriend...." Riverman Buck settles in to a vibrant life of Africa, the place they invented the color green.

Letter from Japan - Poetry from Ethan Gilsdorf

STAFFERS' NOTABLE TRANSITIONS

Get Lost Magazine (and the Canadian Province of Nunavut) turned 5 on April 1.

Marcia Tapp and her Objectivist husband Tym have moved to Fiji where he has taken a job as librarian at University of South Pacific. Yes, we thought that sounded unlikely, too. But they swear it's not just an excuse to hang out in paradise for a few years.

John Burdick (of Long Beach fame) has purchased an historic Rockefeller house in Cleveland, Ohio and is fast discovering the price of slate roofing, copper rain gutters, and fuse box fuses. He still thinks it's fun and is now shopping for a pickle barrel with suspenders to wear.

Your Editor Leslie Strom turned 50, right here in the Pacific Northwest. It wasn't so bad, actually. She's launching two new web projects next month, CasualCook.com (featuring our very own Martha "Stewart" Strom) and TravelersGrapevine.com, brainchild of seafarin' man Bob Dippold.

Casual Cook isn't just another cooking site - this one brings back World War II era skills our mothers and grandmothers had to make something stylish out of very little, quite relevant in times like these.

Travelers Grapevine will be launched (a little nautical pun there) with inside information on intimate small ship cruises from a naturalist / sea captain who has steered a good many people on the adventures of their lives. There will be regular newsletters and interactive features to come, and they're guaranteed to be, like Get Lost Magazine, among the most amusing and varied things on the Internet.

Chuck Woodbury from RV Traveler has been generously providing us with the strategies to make these endeavors actually pay off. We're endlessly grateful for his faith and his energy.