2004-11-25

Grandma: "Do you still cook?"
Me: "Yep. I still do."
[Silence for a while]
Grandma: "My father was a cook on a whaling ship."

Yes, my great-grandpa was a real-life Fleece, the black cook in "Moby Dick" that gives a sermon to the sharks who are eating the whale carcass. Except in Norway and not black.

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