well it turns out
i just got an email from jc on cream hill
saying kevin the mdvawv surveyor has been trying to phone me back
along with some groovy sounding consultants of his

so it looks like we already have some cream in the pail fellows
& the work week
oops i mean the play week
has scarcely begun

& with several of us still in easy closing range of mdvawv yet

for a still more crowning & clowning accomplishment

if indeed there is another one to be had there by us so soon

but we shall hear & see soon enough

however
&or moreover
i am still hovering here in salem for other reasons too

besides being a practically perfect place for me to chill
as civilized places go
affording among many other amenities excellent public internet access
salem & its environs also style themselves as something of a global
biz & tech hub

& visiting the carlyle group at 700 chain bridge road last week has
fired up my desire to sell my venture capitalist cousin
the self styled howard kayo
who lives just over & in fact on top of the next hill or so over here
on the idea of fully inflating everyones land at this time

or actually it is just over there
in blacksburg

& i was already planning to wave or reach out as i blew past anyway
since i knew his hill had no name yet as of this spring anyway
& i had once offered to help him name it
but have never yet even seen it

nor seen him in maybe 40 years

so i am thinking

ok draw o howard ko

& i have a phonecall to pay him this afternoon too
for further landing &or flyby instructions

so i will get to work
or rather i mean to play
on both of these tries
& report back from salem again in due time

salaam aleikum

dohh
i mean
shalom aloha