Feeling Crabby...

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. - H. L. Mencken
It's Monday, March 15.  We would have been in the Cape Canaveral area today if our original backup plans had worked out.  Still, the last news from the yard was positive and we have been able to book crew in for the first few days of our dash south.  Mike and Karen Myers, weary world travelers that they are, will make one more trip in 2010.  They will fly into Jacksonville spend the week-end aboard Llyrical and fly home to DC out of Orlando.  We are also planning for a stretch with Michael Brenner and Susan Baker in early April and with Christina Kachulis towards the end of April.
Otherwise, we are ensconced in Tallahassee, sort of crawling backwards towards the Atlantic, and generally missing. 
The last few days has required that we make emergency trips to the grocery for food since our previously perfectly timed departure would have coincided with running out of food.  Similarly, we are suffering underwear and other clothing shortages since all such items are neatly packed in the seabag. 
We are begrudgingly replacing our store of these necessities and wondering if we will ever go.
We keep looking for silver linings and there are a few: additional Sundays at First Presbyterian are a blessing; we found our ship's station and ham radio licenses on my bedside table (how did they get there?); we got a replacement chronometer; cold fronts seem to be gradually growing a little less significant; and Sandy has had a few days of a springtime allergy or flu which will have a chance to recede.
To some extent, we know we are marking time... and if we mark too much, the trip plan will have to be scrapped.  Perhaps, if time grows too short, we will have to spend time on Biscayne Bay and in the Florida Keys intead.  But none of that for now!  We remain indomitable!  (But we still feel a little crabby) - John