speaking of alcatraz
the alcatraz challenge is coming up! if yer in the neighborhood, come and check it out. it's part of the aloha festival in san francisco, and should be a whole lotta fun. look for me -- i'll either be paddling or eatin spam!

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:: Monday, July 25, 2005 ::

alcatraz paddle
had a perfect, gorgeous paddle around alcatraz this weekend. the water was flat and calm (at least on the way out), the sun was shining (we watched a tiny piece of fog clinging to the marin side of the golden gate bridge...), and we paddled alcatraz. it's only what i've been waiting for all season.

and while i was on the water, i got all verklempt and choked up (in a cool-only-a-little-sappy way, o'course). this is why i paddle, this is what i love -- getting to that bit when there's nothing but water, my paddle working with 5 other paddles, and the gorgeous place i call home all around me -- and nothing else in the world matters.

miz sy and jy came out and checked out a newbie practice, and i was all excited (in an exhausted kinda way) to get my friends to check out what i'm so obsessed about. i don't think they're hooked, but it was fun to have them in the boat.

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:: Thursday, July 14, 2005 ::

reflecting

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:: Friday, July 01, 2005 ::

Typoglycemia
[This comes from a friend...I've seen it posted elsewhere, but seemed worth repeating. Believe it or not you will be able to read it]

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

"It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word."
-Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845) US president (7th)

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