Today we had the dragon boat finals. The actual racing went well, just not quite well enough. We had lots of energy and lots of endurance. We are definitely getting better. However, both our results were just outside of the medal zone... in the corporate final we needed to finish third, but finished fourth; and in the mixed consolation race, we ( Read more... )

We did surprisingly well in our first mixed-division race (3rd) and shockingly well in our first corporate race(*) (2nd place, less than a second behind DPW and more than 10 seconds ahead of whoever finished third). Our mixed result (har har) put us into the higher division, so we didn't do quite so well in the next race -- okay, we came in last, ( Read more... )

Long Beach dragon boat races are coming up in a week's time:
http://www.lbdragonboat.com/

I'll be there, with the big happy dysfunctional family that is the Alpine team. We may even have a tent, and food & water. Whee!

Dragon boat practice has been cancelled today due to thunderstorms. The sun just came out here.

In other news, it's hilarious that the iPhone makes an instant-messenger noise when you get a text message. Imagine two really sleepy people poking all the computers in the house at 8 AM trying to figure out where the hell the noise is coming from...

I've been doing a little more stitching on the Art Deco Lady of Dooooooom. Next time, I will get to use a 4th shade of purple! Whee ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got up far too early to go to dragon boat practice, the first of the season. Yay, we succeeded in having a practice. We had enough people to move a small boat, and we even ran into our ex-coach and sweet-talked her into coming out and coaching us. (Which was good, because we didn't actually have a plan for what we were going to do ( Read more... )

... apparently Thursday is the day to go to the gym.

Lots of empty parking spots, choice of treadmills, didn't have to wait for any machines, and the music was OUTSTANDING. I even jogged a bit to Squeeze's "Hourglass".

And there's dragon boat practice this Saturday. Finally!

Dragon boat races in Long Beach were this past weekend. Our team got bumped up into a harder division. We were, as they say, Not Prepared. Several of our races were agonizingly close, but we came home with no medals. Oh well, time to up our game, or whatever the kids are calling it ( Read more... )

Yesterday stuartc somehow managed to convince me that I *reeeaallllly* want an iPhone. ( Cut because it got kinda long. )

Saturday was dragon boat practice. The race is in just over a month so our fearless leaders are pushing us a bit more. I stopped by the realtor on the way back to drop off one signed thing and pick up another thing to sign. Then I made the mistake of opting for the scenic route home. I'm trying to not get so irked with heavy traffic, but there ( Read more... )