Mentally damaged friend Ellen moved in with old friend Cat. My expectations of them actually having a relationship are dashed. Nothing went horribly wrong, just pretty much wrong. I'm disappointed, but relieved anyway that Ellen has found a new place to live and I no longer have an investment. Was sorry to have dragged Cat into it, but she doesn't ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I was so excited to go the playa. Even though we have not yet finished our Tiny Tropolis dioramas, we are very, very close. It was so much fun working on a tiny project! I never felt stressed, but then, knowing I was going to hand-make every component except the lights inspired me to start work on it quite early on. We ( Read more... )

A few months ago, thanks to the volunteer work I do at my church, I became acquainted with a woman who was moving from an apartment in Aptos to a small house on Coast Road north of town. David and I showed up with a bunch of folks from the church to help her move. The apartment we moved her out of was a total dump; but it was because she had made ( Read more... )

Volunteered to help out with the Learn to Row group just starting this week. Tuesday, pouring rain, worked out on ergs so they could understand the different segments of the stroke. Today, they got into boats for the Very First Time. I was so excited for them! And...I remember my first time. It was in Manhattan in 1987, and I recall how intimidated ( Read more... )

Increase Health.
Make more glassart.

okgo!

Yes, it's been a long time since I posted. So I won't even try to catch up ( Read more... )

"Marathon runners talk about hitting 'the wall' at the twenty-third mile of the race. What rowers confront isn't a wall; it's a hole - an abyss of pain, which opens up in the second minute of the race. Large needles are being driven into your thigh muscles, while your forearms seem to be splitting. Then the pain becomes confused and disorganized, ( Read more... )

Some or most of you know, my oldest brother Allan was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago. It was detected shortly after he had a prostatectomy, during a follow-up scan. (The reason he had a prostatectomy in the first place was that in pre-surgery exam, they discovered he had small-cell cancer, which spreads quite rapidly. So in his follow- ( Read more... )

Rowing practice has revealed a couple of things to me ( Read more... )