Paloma lost nearly all her punch crossing Cuba, and she stalled before ever making it to the major Bahamas island chain. Now in limbo, the computer models have her turning back to the South, possibly crossing Cuba a 2nd time, then heading either towards the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, or into the Gulf of Mexico. For all concerned (except Cuba), the best result would be for the high mountains of that island to completely rip Paloma apart, essentially ending this storm. That's the hope, anyway. It's still too soon to tell, but eyes will definitely be on that part of the Southern Atlantic/Northern Caribbean over the next 24-48 hours. Nobody wants this thing to reform and become a danger again.
By 2011, Hawaii is supposed to have a mouse invasion! Not the little critters you whack with a broom. No, we're talking about Mickey. Disney has announced plans to build a resort on Maui featuring 830 hotel and time-share rooms, along with a fantasy-laden water park area. What comes around goes around, since one of Walt Disney's earliest films in 1937 featured Mickey Mouse on a surfboard in Hawaii. This time, it's for real. To read more on the story:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/hotels/2008-10-24-disney-oahu-resort_N.htm
This resort will certainly come with a hefty price tag for visitors, with all the extra taxes Hawaii heaps on for tourism, but that's never stopped people from booking the Mouse that roared before. Disney aficionados flat out LOVE their Disney. As for The Cap'n, you can park me at the Ritz-Carlton for that kind of money, since I don't have little 'uns to drag along (I mean lovingly share vacation memories with).
On the other side of the world, the New York Times reports there is a strange new variation on the "log flume ride", that's become so popular at American theme parks. Well, not logs exactly, but kind of shaped like that. And not a ride exactly, unless you're talking a mental walk-about. It seems a Buddhist temple in Nakhon Nayok Thailand is offering quickie reincarnation sessions, in which people climb into coffins to "die", though not really. A priest chants over them, to chase away the evil spirits of the person, who is then "reborn" as someone different. Eh, right. The temple started the procedure with 1 coffin, but has expanded to nine coffins, to serve the ever-growing demands and long lines of optimists looking for a new-and-improved life. People standing in the queue are instructed to stand back while waiting, so as not to absorb the "dying" people's escaping evilness. I'm told that people who have undergone the procedure feel incredible afterward, seeing life in a whole new light and having a burning desire to purchase the Brooklyn Bridge, or swampland in Florida....
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