> > August 8, 1492 Weather fari, wind favorable, progress slow. I think I've ffigured out
> > why the skipper 2wanted three ships. Somebody told him that a ;ship could cross the
> > ocean in sixty days. So he reasons that three can do it in twenty. If we had a big enough
> > fleet, would be there by now.
>
> I liked it - especially this part. It was very amusing, with just enough historical irony (the astrology) and flat-out silliness (shouting in Italian to Spaniards :-}) to make it very enjoyable. Was it ever published anywhere (the RinkForum notwithstanding)?

I wrote that as a part of a writer's workshop that I took at the University of Tennessee. They printed up a little booklet that included stuff written by each participant. I ran across the booklet yesterday and just for fun I keyed it into my present computer. Then I thought of RinkWorks and decided it wasn't any sillier than some of the other stuff I'd seen in the forum, so why not?
As you can see, I didn't even proof it. The workshop was fun. The director was author, Richard Marius who grew up about two miles from here but wound up in New England. He is a really nice, down-to-earth guy who happens to be almost exactly my age. We were born in the same week. I've always enjoyed writing. When I was a kid, the other kids read (no TV then), but I wrote. You don't have to have talent to enjoy writing.