Pedro. on 8 Jul 2004   Link to this

Come back on the 13th.

Why did you not tell us earlier we could have booked up a holiday!

Todd Bernhardt on 8 Jul 2004   Link to this

Well then, let's talk about our esteemed moderator, shall we?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1...

Phil, you rawk. I hope *you're* taking a holiday!

(Props to Bradford, who alerted me to this story...)

Bradford on 8 Jul 2004   Link to this

. . . who got it from Maureen, and passed it to Pauline and Jenny, who sent it to . . . at cyberspeed!

dirk on 8 Jul 2004   Link to this

And how are we supposed to survive that long without Sam's diary? We're all hopelessly hooked now! What about detox effects?

A. De Araujo on 8 Jul 2004   Link to this

And it came so sudden!...

Bob T on 8 Jul 2004   Link to this

8 - 13th July. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Sam is experiencing some difficulties that he had not foreseen, and they really put him off his cornflakes :-)

daniel on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

No daily entry?......becoming hard to concentrate....lights growing dim......

vicente on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Theres the house of blahs dailey bill making, then there is Rev. Josslyn keeping us abrest of the daisys and the the all English problem of the weather. Of course There is J Evelyn telling us about boyls vacating aire frome the a viper, compessing Water, or playing with his marbles, polishing so with olive oil that it takes a 42 lb weight to separate them. Then Diving bell being tried out at Deptford. Oh! his a missing so much.

Ruben on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

No daily entry
To all Pepys-addicts:
Try a stronger coffee. If your hands are still trembling, open "badkground information" in a systematic way. Open all the blue patches you find in your way. Not all the sites the same day!
Save some for other days without fat cows.
Try "Recent annotations", if you are addicted to chronological order.
Vicente probably and Pepys for sure would say: "Omnem movere lapidem",
"Turn every stone", try to make a maximal workout.
Remember that life yet exists (precariously so) in the XXI century, and most of all, remember that our hero will be back to tell us all after the following announcements from our sponsors...

adam w on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Rawk?
There's always something to learn here, even with Pepys away from his desk. Todd, what is a rawk?

Ruben on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Rawk?
At my own risk I checked at: urbandictionary
and found it is "like rock but cooler"
see at http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=...

Todd Bernhardt on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Rawk on, Ruben! :-)

BradW on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Rawk?

For a pronunciation example see _Nemo, Finding_, e.g. Crush: "Yew RAWK, dude." TOE-tally.

JWB on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

6 days covered by one entry on the 13th. Why not bring it up? Sure we could spend that many days wrestling with probate and in-laws.

Glyn on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

PG tips

Instead of the diary why not read this full-page article about Phil Gyford in yesterday's science section of "The Guardian":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1...

Apparently Phil is "a shining example of what is good about the internet" and the people who read this Pepys Diary site are "a large community of seasoned web surfers, enthusiasts and academics" (it says here).

Glyn on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Captain Scott, K2 and me

Doh! I see Todd and a lot of other people already got there before me, sorry.

cindy b on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Isn't this a spoiler?
Did Sam know that he wan't going to write anything until the 13th or did he just reach the end of the day without enough energy left to write?

What would Sam have thought if he could have known that 343 years after the fact people all over the world would panic at the knowledge that he took a few days off?

daniel on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

i343 years later

i am sure that Sam would be quite taken aback.

Nix on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Settle down -- it's summertime.

If you really want to know what happens, go to the Project Gutenberg text. I'll be packing for vacation, carrying with me the good feelings from the recognition Phil has earned -- congratulations!

bardi on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

This will be the longest week "ever in all my life."

ian on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Bear up folks, its only until Tuesday, Go away and enjoy the weekend, or alternatively find one of Phil's other sites (see Guardian article above for ideas) and get political.

Glyn on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

Pepys' Walk in the City of London

Well, if anyone wants to take a self-guided Walk around the City of London based on Samuel Pepys, to take their mind off things, I've just finished finished writing one, with a lot of help from contributors to this site.

So click on my name, send me a message, and I'll e-mail it to you.

tc on 9 Jul 2004   Link to this

A respite...

...and back to the 21st century for a few days, a wonderful opportunity to thank Phil again for this wonderful diversion, the days of Sam.

And a good time to go sailing...with Sam in mind (like a fish I go...)
~~~~_/)~~~~

language hat on 10 Jul 2004   Link to this

By an amazing coincidence, I'm taking a vacation too!
Doesn't quite match (going to Calif tomorrow, coming back the 17th), but there's enough overlap I won't have too much to catch up with on my return...

And thanks for posting the Phil interview, Todd (and Glyn)!

dirk on 10 Jul 2004   Link to this

Suggestion?

Maybe some of us could fill their empty time by trying to make brief summaries (some 10 lines per month) of the past months of Sam's diary - so that Phil may finally see the "Story so far" updated. I'm trying my hand at December 1660. Any other volunteers?

Coffee on 10 Jul 2004   Link to this

...err, can't wait that long! Can't we vote on this?? =)

kent kelly on 11 Jul 2004   Link to this

Well, this is jolly. I took a week's bicycling holiday and what with work and other things, it's now two weeks since I visited this site. I hated having to skip the annotations so I could catch up but had resigned myself to it. Thanks to Sam's break, I can read them.

vicente on 11 Jul 2004   Link to this

Just found an interesting tit bit, Sam borrows 10L on Monday 2 January 1659/60. it was in his impecunious days.
"...Then I went to Mr. Crew

Martin on 11 Jul 2004   Link to this

Are there any future gaps in the diary? If so I feel we ought to be told in good time, so that holiday arrangements etc. can be made!

Lorry on 11 Jul 2004   Link to this

Somehow there was a large "void" in this week but I'm sure like all of you - I will survive! Thank you, Glyn, for the self-guided walk in London.

Phil Gyford on 12 Jul 2004   Link to this

I guess this particular entry could be classed as a 'spoiler' - there's no evidence Sam planned not to write his diary in advance. To be completely authentic I could have just not posted an entry for several days. But then I'd have (quite rightly) received lots of emails from everyone wondering where the next entry was!

Ruben on 13 Jul 2004   Link to this

This lapse in SP's diary was bad for me, as I had an operation and a lot of time to spend at home.
I rented a very old movie, Captain Blood, and had the pleasure to see again,like in my childhood, a fictional Dr. Blood in the year 1685, pirates and the like. He is more or less a rebel against King James.
They are lot of anachronic blunders but it is only entertainment. You can see a nice trailer with a young Basil Rathbone in http://videodetective.com/home.asp?x=y&SpeedTes...
I did not know were to insert this background annotation. May be in "fictional Pepys"?

A. Hamilton on 13 Jul 2004   Link to this

Wishing to extend this already impressively long list of annotations, and ready to throw relevance to the winds, I am seizing on Ruben's last remark to tell two utterly unconnected stories. My wife's maiden name is Rathbone, of no known connection to Basil. My mother's maiden name is Verner, which as readers of Sherlock Holmes know, is the also the maiden name of the detective's mother. At one point, when my daughter was thinking of applying for membership in the Baker Street Irregulars, I advised her to claim that she was related to Holmes on both sides. As for the second anecdote, I'm told that Basil Rathbone's daughter for a time ran a catering service in New York City named "Forever Basil."

language hat on 21 Jul 2004   Link to this

Rathbone/Verner:
Just for a little added value: in case you didn't know the derivations, Rathbone is from Welsh rhathbon 'field with stumps' and Verner is a variant of Warner, from Old French Guarnier, from Germanic warn- 'warn' + heri 'army, troop.'