Monthly Archives: February 2008

CB 9 February, 2008
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In case you haven’t noticed, we do a lot more snowboarding than sailing in the wintertime. And here in the PNW we have been getting dumped on snow wise. Almost everyday has been powder days. Yesterday was no exception. Tawn was sick as hell and had to stay home. So up to the mountain (Crystal Mountain) I went.

While I was up there I decided to see if I could film while I was snowboarding. Turns out I could, it also turns out I cannot do it very well. It’s alot harder than you would think to hold a small camera reletively still while sliding down the side of a mountain at 30 miles an hour and dodging trees at the same time.

Actually, it did’nt turn out to bad for a first attempt. Don’t make fun of the way I’m talking…it was cold as hell and my lips were frozen. Or maybe that’s the way I always sound and just never realized it.

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Ok, now we are even. (CB)

CB 6 February, 2008
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Tawn, my buddy Dan and I were up at Stevens Pass ski resort on Super bowl Sunday and Monday. The video below was taken on Monday February 4th.

And just to be clear, I am not posting this video to display my incredible snowboarding skills, or Tawn’s talent for filming (and defenitly not for her color commentary). The main reason is to level the playing field. A couple weeks ago, I posted a video of Tawn, in which she wipes out. I may or may not have also aluded to her sobriety at the time, I don’t honestly recall right now.

In the following video you will see me wipe out at the end of it. While I was definetly sober, if you look closely right before I wipe out, you can see a small woodland creature scurry across my path. I had to resort to desperate measures to ensure the little guy escaped unharmed. I am nothing if not a friend of all creatures, both great and small. Enjoy the video:

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So long E-40…Hello J-49!! (CB)

CB 6 February, 2008
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We moved! From start to finish, it took us less than 15 minutes.  :)

Granted, we did’nt move far, but it is one of the beautys of living on a boat.  We moved from E dock, down to J dock. Total distance about 300 yards. But unlike moving from one apartment/house to another, there was no boxing of stuff. No unboxing of stuff. It was a simple matter of starting up the engine, unplugging the shorepower cord and untieing 4 lines. Then moving the boat down to J dock, slip #49. Oh and grabbing all the tools and stuff out of the dock box, piling it in the dinghy and moving that down to the new dock. So maybe it took 45 minutes, but who is counting.

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