10:00 a.m. - Phone Call from Cap'n Ron
NOTICEABLE IN THE BACKGROUND IS THE DRONING OF A DIESEL ENGINE
Cap'n Ron: Hey. You've been through Swinomish Channel, right?
GVB: Uh. Yeah. Why?
CR: We missed slack at Deception Pass so we're going to go through the channel to get up to the San Jans.
GVB: Oh. Go north to Skagit Bay, turn east, stay in the channel.
CR: Ok. I wish my depth sounder was working...
6:00 p.m. - Excerpt from Email from Cap'n Ron
FROM: CAP'N RON
TO: GVB
SUBJECT: FINALLY AT SUCIA ISLAND
...I did come up the channel... mostly by brail. I don't think this keel can ever say she has scraped her bottom more times. We actually ran pretty hard aground once... took a bit of coaxing to get her off...
Boat Weirdness Abounds
The 'Hood is still up on stands in Anacortes. The engine bone's connected to the transmission bone...the transmission bone's connected to the propeller bone...etc. The problem with letting a great mechanic dig through your boat is that he will find everything that needs to be fixed, and he will charge you to fix them. Batteries? Sure. Charger? What the hell. AC Inverter? Of course!
Estimated completion date: The exact last day of cruising season. Whenever that is.
The'Lion and the Buoys
Skipper Krumm wants to race the old tub this fall. Ok. Did you put in that auxilary cooler we have been asking for? How about that clever little sign that reads: "Have You Flogged Your Crew Today"?
Other Things
1. Despite a nasty little chest cold, I couldn't resist some pedaling time last night. Today I will do my best to keep from hacking up a lung in the pool.
2. Watched "The Lords of Dogtown" last night. Awesome. Heath Ledger as SoCal skateboard pioneer Skip Engblom? Perfect. Any of you punks who remember the old empty pools and banked sidewalk skating of the '70s and '80s have to watch this movie.
3. On Shuffle Play, the Nano served up not two, not three, not four, but FIVE straight Donavon Frankenreiter tunes on my last ride. Any statisticians care to tell me the odds of this on a 567 song playlist? Show your work.
4. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright? Read that one.
5. Do we really need Back to School sales in July? Just wondering.
6. The World Series of Poker has ended. The winner gets over 12 million. I know it's a big deal to win a tournament with over 8,000 people involved, but doesn't the fact that the same person never wins or even comes close to winning twice in row suggest that the game is more or less washed out? When dudes from Fresno who learned to play on the Internet can take down Poker "legends" with a hand of King-8, something is wrong.
7. Today's Statistically Improbable Parenting Phrase: "Son, those are your sister's panties. Put them back and get your own."
3 comments:
Do we really need back to school sales in July? Apparently
At minimum, students need three essential pieces of electronic equipment, said Corey Angleton, 19, who attends George Mason University. They are a laptop, an MP3 player and a cellphone -- specifically, a camera phone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/12/AR2006081200218.html
Watched Chronicles of Narnia. Horrible film. Is it just me or are there too many moppets running around these days making silly squeaking noices when endangered AND too many fresh-faced innocent pretty-boys with low self-esteem?
and finally . . .
"Splash" is the sound of my cat as she misses the sink and falls in to the toilet.
and finally, finally . . .
this triple Latte is not helping
-R
Hey RPD, Let's make our own back to school list. I'll start:
15" Mac Book Pro
4 GB iPod Nano
Lifetime supply of Bombay Sapphire Gin...
College Students' Parent Repellent (14 oz Spray)
A Portable Reader for all those electronic texts their prof's are always nattering them to read might be nice.
A Bose 3-2-1 Home Theater System so that they can be visual learners.
Access to the French iTunes Store where, perhaps, they'll be able to play AAC's on non-iPod mp3 players (it is all about the music man).
A deep concern for public affairs and their place in it (oh wait, this cannot be purchased, only hoped for, eh?).
-R
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