Taking a moment to go over my online presence. I suppose I quit updating this about when I got on Facebook.

Facebook sucks up enough of my time ( Read more... )

It was a lunch meeting, and I'm stuffed AND have leftover food enough for at least a couple of lunches. Made it home for a couple hours in between first service and the meeting and slapped a coat of primer on some of the front porch roof that I washed yesterday. I don't think I'll be able to complete the job without resorting to scaffolding or ( Read more... )

Went out for the continuation of the adult class, but this time the call was to put everybody on Picos and Sunfish, so I didn't take my boat out and just rode on a coach boat, although at the end I did hop on a Pico with someone for a little bit. Hot and not a lot of wind, but it did pick up at one point enough so they could all move, so that was ( Read more... )

Wednesday night I raced Fishy, in fairly breezy conditions (10-20 knot winds). The days are long and they gave us seven races, about two and a half hours of sailing. It was pretty brutal. Then Thursday night I went out for the centerboard series. It was a little breezier (15-25 gusting to 29). Fortunately, I had two crew so I could just drive ( Read more... )

I'm considering refinancing my mortgage, and of course the first question they ask is how long I plan to stay in the house. How on earth do they expect anybody to know that? As long as I'm single, everything in my life has "provisional, subject to change without much notice" stamped all over it, and these days it's not much different with ( Read more... )

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It really is one of my favorite regattas, and this was probably a good year to do race committee as the wind was generally not very good except right around the thunderstorms. The party was good, too, although the weather hurt attendance. Good food, good band. A few scoring/personality issues, but I think everything got resolved satisfactorily, ( Read more... )

Centerboard series started tonight. My crew wasn't available, so I singlehanded, but still did OK (wind was light). Had fun sailing downwind with the tiller tamer on, steering with my weight. And at the end of the evening, I came in to the dock perfectly, though I don't think anyone was looking. Always very satisfying to leave the helm, ( Read more... )

This concludes all the work I'm hiring other people to do. One more check to write. I still have a bunch of painting and a little work on the vent hood ( Read more... )