No Disrespect Intended Toward Rocky

Happy (belated) birthday, jazz-cat! I had little access to the internet while traveling through Iceland - only stolen snippets of unprotected wi-fi accessed with my smart phone which, it turns out, is not very smart when it comes to posting on blogspot.com

Late in the trip, at a rare legit hotspot, I downloaded the blogspot app which improved these matters enough to post, and I intended to append my birthday note to Stoner with props to you, but the Viking lager had conquered my brain before that happened.

But, on June 23, best wishes to you were definitely radiating from Húsavík, on the north coast of Iceland, former home to the Icelandic Phallological Museum (motto: This museum isn't for pussies), and a mere 50 km or so from the Arctic Circle. According to the Landnámabók ("Book of Settlement"), Húsavík was the first place in Iceland to be settled by a Norse man. For us, it was merely a place to observe whales; we saw blues, humpbacks, minkes, and dolphins.