I happened across this...
some may have seen it , but it is too good not to share.
Those with a cool hat ( like mine ;D) will understand...
The Hat and the Dragon (Chesapeake Bay Magazine, October, 1992)
http://www.sff.net/people/bud_sparhawk/dragon.htm
yeah it does ;D ;D ;D
Zen, the whole time I am reading this, I am visualizing you and your hat in that pict. I was LOL. Anyone that fools with a boathook can totally relate to the description given in the read regarding entanglement in everything! Thanks for posting. Great for a morning laugh on a very, very rainy Alberto morning. :) :) :)