The Life!

This is...

Anyway, just felt like posting even though I have nothing to say. I posted some pics on my facebook, so if you're friends with me, you can check out that album. If you aren't, you can become friends with me. Then you can see my awesome pics.

Anyway, hope you're keeping cool where ever you are, and have a good summer!

Good Afternoon...

...From the Sunshine State!
We got her about 10 minutes early this morning after a really bumpy flight. It's almost the exact same temperature and humidity here as in Illinois. The only difference is the Gulf. I've only taken a few pictures but I'll take a lot more as the week goes by. Talk to y'all later.

Also...

SCHOOLS OUT!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!

Shakey Shakedown

We took Tabasco out for the first time yesterday. Should've known that the outboards inability to start was a bad omen. The new rudder (that awesome one?) is causing me to eat my words. It's nice and high aspect ratio, and should work great. It doesn't. It takes forever to respond because it's a little too thin. It's also really heavy. Also, the running rigging is all tangled, and hal forgot to put the Windex on the masthead. So now we'll either be tying me to a chair and hosting me up, or dropping the whole 100 pound aluminium spar. Fun, fun, fun. All of this is currently scedualed for next week. Which of course is when i'm in florida. Great for having me climb the mast, me being a few thousand miles away. I do get to drive the escape to and from St. Louis and i remember the route being a relitively easy one ot drive so i should be good. I'll talk to you later. Maybe i'll post and take pictures while i'm in Florida. Have a good week.

OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!

(after spending 15 minuted trying to figure out how to pronounce that, i thought i'd just tell you: Sound It Out.)

What i'm omgomgomgom....

...Lets start over.

What I'm (oh, so very, obviously) excited about is this: We are going sailing this weekend!!! Woot!

Not on Banana Republics yet (we still have that gnarly centerboard problem to fix), but on Tabasco, our flagship. What's cool is that we brought her to the shop last weekend (i took a funny pic of that; i'll show you later) and worked on her. She's about ready to go in this year after one very cool thing, the repainting of the name. As you might've seen from that slideshow-that-never-got-updated-like-it-should-have at the bottom, was that the name was fading and being scratched away into oblivion. But before that could happen, we went over it with more black, yellow and white paint. It looks really amazing! I'll take some sailing pics this weekend. I might even take some epic video if it's epic sailing and put it on youtube (I'll be sure to have it linked for those of you who follow the blog and not my youtube).

But yeah, just wanted to tell you that, though it's been a little quiet lately, it's sure to get more action-y soon!

Peace!

The final countdown (and not the epic song we play)

Guess what! The rudder should be coming in tomorrow for Tabasco! A brand new, high density, lightweight plastic Catalina 25 custom rudder. Built special for Tabasco. And that means we'll be getting ready to (if not actually) sail this weekend. Everything's ready to go at the club and everything that needs work on Tabasco can be done in the water. So hopefully, you'll see pics from on the water soon! Until then, Peace!

And......

HAPPY CCM DAY EVERYBODY,

Don't inside jokes rock!?

Writer's Block!!!!!!!!!

OMG I'VE HAD WRITER'S BLOCK FOR SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREAKING LONG.

I need a new idea for the 4th chapter in Stranded peoples!!!!

I also finally get to drive with the instructor and get to miss fitness class for it for the rest of the year!! No more painful workouts!!!!!!!!!

I NEED NEW IDEAS