My disappearing act

For those of you who read here and do not regularly (or maybe ever) read the other blog...
I am on vacation.
You know, just in case you were missing me.

I do have a computer here, but the Wi-Fi is spotty at best.

Anyway, I am in St. Thomas in the lovely U.S. Virgin Islands.
I have been enjoying rum drinks (and then some more rum drinks), diving and just relaxing.

If you want to read a bit more about the trip so far, head over to South Bay Soliloquy.

Just one post so far, no pictures. It just takes too much time to try to upload photos. I will update fully and with visual aids when I return home much too soon.

But what if she doesn't have the hips for it?

I really question parents who would do this to their child.

From the Associated Press

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A family court judge in New Zealand has had
enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something
about it.

Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her
renamed.

Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that
her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl
was involved in a custody battle, he said.

The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.
"The
court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's
parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the
child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap,
unnecessarily."

The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told
her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the
girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.

In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate
names.
Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips,
Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed,
including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he
said.

New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a
reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar
general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Clarke said officials usually talked
to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for
embarrassment.

Why? Why, why, why?

Don't these parents remember being a child? Don't they know how mean other kids can be?