Cancer (June 21–July 22)
I'm hungry. My stomach is growling as I write this sentence, but I'm ignoring its demands, as an example to you. Fuck the instant gratification thing this week. Your desires will be coming upon you close and fast; if you're set on seeking their immediate fulfillment, you won't have a moment to rest or to enjoy the occasional satisfactions that come your way. You've got to learn to live with your hunger, now and in general. The best part is, once you do get to eat after being hungry for a while, food tastes a whole lot better.
Caeriel Crestin/Seattle Weekly
Kim
Chief, ruler : English
You have a charismatic and magnetic personality which others cannot help but be drawn to ensuring you of many friends. Very ambitious your keen perceptive powers and ability to absorb knowledge helps you to achieve your objectives. You are a strong willed and industrious worker who is prepared to earn all the material success and good fortune which comes your way. With a philosophical attitude happiness is assured.
(i could use a little material success right now!)
check out the meaning of your name
You have a charismatic and magnetic personality which others cannot help but be drawn to ensuring you of many friends. Very ambitious your keen perceptive powers and ability to absorb knowledge helps you to achieve your objectives. You are a strong willed and industrious worker who is prepared to earn all the material success and good fortune which comes your way. With a philosophical attitude happiness is assured.
(i could use a little material success right now!)
check out the meaning of your name
News From A Broad
(and some other sailors too)…
From Insane Elaine Eno! (See her pic on my myspace blog)
“I've been working at a Summer day camp where I take ten year olds rock-climbing, rowing, and sailing for daily adventures.”
“I just got back from a week of being a contestant on Monster House! We did a "Pirate House"! It should air around Oct 10th on the Discovery Channel. (I hope they don't make me look like too much of an idiot.)
By the by, our build team has the record of swearing more than any other build team. To which I point to myself and say "Sailor!"I hope all is well in the world of you. Fair winds and keep in touch.”Love, "Insane"
My Spy at the Seaport:
“The news about the HC was brought up at the bored meeting which is suppose to be a public meeting. The papers haven't quite been signed yet, they are haggling over times not price sooooooo....???? They want to sell her in 30 days and Charles Maples wants 90 days. The deal is Westport get her for "the golden 100" days in the summer, GHHSA gets her the rest of the time. GHHSA crews her and after she gets payed offwith the money from the 100 days; maybe 5-6 years she will be donated to GHHSA free and clear.
Alan Kerstetter is stuck in Key West for now, but might do some cruising this winter or spring on his recently purchased Cal27.
Carley Tallman just sailed the inside passage with her father, and has become a knitting fool for her nephew or niece that’s on the way soon.
Cheralynn just returned from a trip to Montana she’s staying at her parent’s on Bainbridge Island:
“Went swimming with my horse at the beach the other day! She was scared of the foam so she jumped it and headed out to sea.”
YOGI is hanging out in Singapore right now…
James “Jimmy” McManus is getting all kinds of offers from SoCal tallships but he’s holding out for the PR trip on Bill…
Laura Levin is helping Captain Christopher move from the hospital to his house today…
And… Eric “The Beard” Bott:life is good, my new email is ericthebeard (at) gmail (dot) com I am finishing up my tenure at the National Labs in the desert (tri-cities). After much deliberation, I made the decision to not become a tattoo artist and go on to grad school in chemistry. Imanaged to slide into the University of Washington's physical chemistry PhD program about 6 months after the application deadline. It a really good school with a program that I am very excited about. I leave the Labs in August and start grad school (indenturedservitude) in the middle/end of September. So, I am officially moving to Seattle. Where, you ask, will I live? Well…Having worked in a fairly well paying job for the last 10 months and living really cheaply, I have managed to save enough money to buy myself a very sexy sailboat, large enough to live aboard, small enoughto take care of. She is a 1936 EB Schock designed 34' sloop. She's made of white oak frames and Honduras mahogany planking. It was donated to the Center for Wooden boats and they are selling her for anawesome price. I have always wanted to live on a boat, but I never thought that it would be a realistic option for some time. But this opportunity came along that just seemed to be fate-bound and I tookit. So, that's the word. Let me know if you want to stay on a boat for a while, or maybe do some sailing…and if you have updated email addresses, i think mine may be a bit old... Later, -eric
Nanette Brown-Clampitt is coming to visit me in Austin! Woohoo!
And I cannot forget the Eloquent and Wonderful TUVALU!
“It still seems so strange to me that this creature started out as basically no more then a parasite rejected by my body, now it controls my entire world!! And what more, it has me convinced that it’s the greatest thing in creation!!AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Micah has fallen victim as well.
All we have left is hope.
Godspeed,
Tu' “
From Insane Elaine Eno! (See her pic on my myspace blog)
“I've been working at a Summer day camp where I take ten year olds rock-climbing, rowing, and sailing for daily adventures.”
“I just got back from a week of being a contestant on Monster House! We did a "Pirate House"! It should air around Oct 10th on the Discovery Channel. (I hope they don't make me look like too much of an idiot.)
By the by, our build team has the record of swearing more than any other build team. To which I point to myself and say "Sailor!"I hope all is well in the world of you. Fair winds and keep in touch.”Love, "Insane"
My Spy at the Seaport:
“The news about the HC was brought up at the bored meeting which is suppose to be a public meeting. The papers haven't quite been signed yet, they are haggling over times not price sooooooo....???? They want to sell her in 30 days and Charles Maples wants 90 days. The deal is Westport get her for "the golden 100" days in the summer, GHHSA gets her the rest of the time. GHHSA crews her and after she gets payed offwith the money from the 100 days; maybe 5-6 years she will be donated to GHHSA free and clear.
Alan Kerstetter is stuck in Key West for now, but might do some cruising this winter or spring on his recently purchased Cal27.
Carley Tallman just sailed the inside passage with her father, and has become a knitting fool for her nephew or niece that’s on the way soon.
Cheralynn just returned from a trip to Montana she’s staying at her parent’s on Bainbridge Island:
“Went swimming with my horse at the beach the other day! She was scared of the foam so she jumped it and headed out to sea.”
YOGI is hanging out in Singapore right now…
James “Jimmy” McManus is getting all kinds of offers from SoCal tallships but he’s holding out for the PR trip on Bill…
Laura Levin is helping Captain Christopher move from the hospital to his house today…
And… Eric “The Beard” Bott:life is good, my new email is ericthebeard (at) gmail (dot) com I am finishing up my tenure at the National Labs in the desert (tri-cities). After much deliberation, I made the decision to not become a tattoo artist and go on to grad school in chemistry. Imanaged to slide into the University of Washington's physical chemistry PhD program about 6 months after the application deadline. It a really good school with a program that I am very excited about. I leave the Labs in August and start grad school (indenturedservitude) in the middle/end of September. So, I am officially moving to Seattle. Where, you ask, will I live? Well…Having worked in a fairly well paying job for the last 10 months and living really cheaply, I have managed to save enough money to buy myself a very sexy sailboat, large enough to live aboard, small enoughto take care of. She is a 1936 EB Schock designed 34' sloop. She's made of white oak frames and Honduras mahogany planking. It was donated to the Center for Wooden boats and they are selling her for anawesome price. I have always wanted to live on a boat, but I never thought that it would be a realistic option for some time. But this opportunity came along that just seemed to be fate-bound and I tookit. So, that's the word. Let me know if you want to stay on a boat for a while, or maybe do some sailing…and if you have updated email addresses, i think mine may be a bit old... Later, -eric
Nanette Brown-Clampitt is coming to visit me in Austin! Woohoo!
And I cannot forget the Eloquent and Wonderful TUVALU!
“It still seems so strange to me that this creature started out as basically no more then a parasite rejected by my body, now it controls my entire world!! And what more, it has me convinced that it’s the greatest thing in creation!!AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Micah has fallen victim as well.
All we have left is hope.
Godspeed,
Tu' “
Hot Austin
Here's Polly living it up at Carlos n Charlies at Lake Travis. She really got into the whole Texas/Longhorn thing... hehe j/k
We're watching the crazy divers at Barton Springs
kids dancing to the band "Spin 66" aka "Jawbreaker". Reminded me of being at the North Shore
Micah, one of a handful of awesome acrobatic divers at Barton Springs near downtown Austin.
EZ Bake
I have planned on baking bread for a week now. Every morning I get up and wish that I had baked bread the night before. I've got to bake some before Polly gets here because it'd be stupid to hang out at the house waiting for bread to rise. I MUST DO IT!
But first I think I will bake and eat an entire box of Jiffy Apple Cinnamon muffins.
But first I think I will bake and eat an entire box of Jiffy Apple Cinnamon muffins.
I Have Become an Internet Junkie
I am living vicariously through my sailing friends who call and email. Plus I joined a group on myspace called "Tall Ship Sailors". One of the first topics that I posted was "If I had my very own tall ship..."
My initial post:
"It would be a steel hulled with wooden masts that sleeps at least 20. Maybe one or two squares in the rig, or a gaff topsail schooner. Something like the R.Tucker Thompson. I'd advertise on the internet and in magazines to do charters, ed trips, youth at risk programs, whatever was in demand in Puget Sound, Vancouver Island and Southeast Alaska. But it would be weekend or weeklong trips minimum, none of this daysail nonsense. And we'd have a good boat dog and allow at least one crew to raise a kid on board.
What would YOU do if you had you're own tall ship?"
--- and the reason I'm copying this here is because of the funny reply that Judy from Boston posted:
The dog and kid are a must i agree. I think it should be a mystery who the kid belongs to, though. so that when new people come on board you can say
"oh and this is little nickie. Hi. say hi nickie"
"oh she's so cute. How old is she?" -new guy
"Um I think maybe two. Not sure."
"Oh whose is she?"-new guy
"Um you know i don't really know. She was here when I got here. But I've only been here about six months. John might know ask him."
"Hey John, whose kid is it?"-new guy.
"Oh nickie, hi nickie. Yeah man she just started walking like a month ago. Unstoppable. she's a... Shit you know I think I was aloft when that whole thing happened. Great kid though. You know Jen might know."
Taunting also a must. Multiple cannons...yes. day sails...no.
kiddie pool on board and safety cones (for communicating to other vessels information not appropriate for ch.16 ...such as...i'm not wearing any underpants).
Caribbean all year.
My initial post:
"It would be a steel hulled with wooden masts that sleeps at least 20. Maybe one or two squares in the rig, or a gaff topsail schooner. Something like the R.Tucker Thompson. I'd advertise on the internet and in magazines to do charters, ed trips, youth at risk programs, whatever was in demand in Puget Sound, Vancouver Island and Southeast Alaska. But it would be weekend or weeklong trips minimum, none of this daysail nonsense. And we'd have a good boat dog and allow at least one crew to raise a kid on board.
What would YOU do if you had you're own tall ship?"
--- and the reason I'm copying this here is because of the funny reply that Judy from Boston posted:
The dog and kid are a must i agree. I think it should be a mystery who the kid belongs to, though. so that when new people come on board you can say
"oh and this is little nickie. Hi. say hi nickie"
"oh she's so cute. How old is she?" -new guy
"Um I think maybe two. Not sure."
"Oh whose is she?"-new guy
"Um you know i don't really know. She was here when I got here. But I've only been here about six months. John might know ask him."
"Hey John, whose kid is it?"-new guy.
"Oh nickie, hi nickie. Yeah man she just started walking like a month ago. Unstoppable. she's a... Shit you know I think I was aloft when that whole thing happened. Great kid though. You know Jen might know."
Taunting also a must. Multiple cannons...yes. day sails...no.
kiddie pool on board and safety cones (for communicating to other vessels information not appropriate for ch.16 ...such as...i'm not wearing any underpants).
Caribbean all year.
It's just a rabbit!
Today I went to Barton Springs with Mikey. We played Scrabble and he won (again) but he wins by making all my awesome words plural. I could beat him if I took all of the "S" pieces out of the bag.
I rented some movies from I Luv Video. "Queen Margot" (looking like an aristocratic french version of Carrie) which I quickly figured out that I'd seen before. I also found THIS scary short flick. Good thing I'm not going to be alone in the house tonight! LoL
I rented some movies from I Luv Video. "Queen Margot" (looking like an aristocratic french version of Carrie) which I quickly figured out that I'd seen before. I also found THIS scary short flick. Good thing I'm not going to be alone in the house tonight! LoL
Unrelated
When I was 12 had a crush on John Schneider. I don't see how Johnny Knoxville and Stiffler will be able to compare to the super masculine, confident and adventurous yet loyal and kind of moral attitudes of the original Bo & Luke.
It's really hard to tell when chorizo is fully cooked.
Whenever I hear John Mayer's song "Fathers, be good to your daughters" I think about myself, and my little sister, and my girlfriends...
"Girls become lovers, sisters and mothers...."
Yesterday I was talking to Polly and it sounds like her dad wasn't a chronic cheater or liar. Polly trusts men.
Mothers obviously need to be good to their sons, too. I have a good feeling that Polly's grandma told Polly's dad that she loved him, at least once.
I remember seeing some movie where some guy who ended up in jail refused to ever communicate with his child so he didn't end up perpetuating the cycle of bad parenting/unhealthy influence. I may not be a criminal, but I still don't live up to my idea of ideal child-raising standards. And hell, I'd probably raise better kids than lots of people. But I'm pretending that it DOES require a license, and my mental genetics don't qualify.
My boyfriend is on vacation in Italy for another week and a half :(
Today I played scrabble at a coffee shop with my friend Mike. Quack's in north Austin makes the very best espresso shakes and gingerbread cake that I have EVER had.
I'm listening to "Malcom in the Middle" in the background. The mom ran off to the batting cage for a day and is yelling at the family to be a little more considerate and help out now and then. The husband agrees to everything she says and she replies "If this is so easy, why do I have to ask for it? Why can't you guys just be better at this?" and the husband says "Honey, that's never gonna happen... we are too stupid to figure this stuff out. All you can expect from us is total abject obedience..."
Stupid is not a good excuse, but "crazy" isn't either. We all have to help each other out.
It's really hard to tell when chorizo is fully cooked.
Whenever I hear John Mayer's song "Fathers, be good to your daughters" I think about myself, and my little sister, and my girlfriends...
"Girls become lovers, sisters and mothers...."
Yesterday I was talking to Polly and it sounds like her dad wasn't a chronic cheater or liar. Polly trusts men.
Mothers obviously need to be good to their sons, too. I have a good feeling that Polly's grandma told Polly's dad that she loved him, at least once.
I remember seeing some movie where some guy who ended up in jail refused to ever communicate with his child so he didn't end up perpetuating the cycle of bad parenting/unhealthy influence. I may not be a criminal, but I still don't live up to my idea of ideal child-raising standards. And hell, I'd probably raise better kids than lots of people. But I'm pretending that it DOES require a license, and my mental genetics don't qualify.
My boyfriend is on vacation in Italy for another week and a half :(
Today I played scrabble at a coffee shop with my friend Mike. Quack's in north Austin makes the very best espresso shakes and gingerbread cake that I have EVER had.
I'm listening to "Malcom in the Middle" in the background. The mom ran off to the batting cage for a day and is yelling at the family to be a little more considerate and help out now and then. The husband agrees to everything she says and she replies "If this is so easy, why do I have to ask for it? Why can't you guys just be better at this?" and the husband says "Honey, that's never gonna happen... we are too stupid to figure this stuff out. All you can expect from us is total abject obedience..."
Stupid is not a good excuse, but "crazy" isn't either. We all have to help each other out.
I almost choked
on a big hunk o' Texas BBQ when I read on the billet bank:
Lady Washington is hiring a steward, offering "competitive pay and medical insurance"
LMAO
Is M.T. being funny?
Lady Washington is hiring a steward, offering "competitive pay and medical insurance"
LMAO
Is M.T. being funny?
