Back when I was working on my own albatross in Nebraska, Val/ Bowerbox recommended I read Eye of the Albatross.

I just finished it (actually, I quit partway into the second chapter on the fisherman’s boat, page 215 – I felt like I had gotten out of it what I would by that point, and decided to move on to a book about Noguchi I borrowed from my brother. It has perhaps the most uninspired title I have ever heard. Worse than “the life of Noguchi” (which would be fine). Speaking of my brother, I will be out in California for a week, visiting him at Bass Lake, where he plays violin. So, if I behave properly, I won’t spend much time on the computer (or at least on the nets) so don’t expect any new conspiracy theory sites for at least a week.

“These immense creatures we call ‘albatross’ are the greatest long-distance wanderers on Earth.”

The point of this post was that, while I always thought of the albatross as something that holds you down, and saw house as albatross as a way of dealing with the mortgage question (ever so much more sexy in these down days), it turns out the albatross is very much a wanderer. In fact, they circumnavigate the globe several times a year! Crazy, eh? There’s even an albatross called “The Wandering Albatross.” So, that makes the title appropriate in ways unintended.