Friday, January 08, 2016
Asthma
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Final Voyage
On June 21, 2014 I will be taking my final voyage aboard the beautiful sailboat, Tiama. The goal is to leave her in Charleston where the sailboat market is better and where she will quickly find a new owner. This final sail is not one to be taken lightly, though. It will be potentially fraught with danger in the form of sharks, thunderstorms, and shifting sandbars.
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Thursday, June 05, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Do you dive?
Apparently around here, "Do you dive?" Actually means diving on nitrox and owning all your own gear.
"Yep, I'm scuba certified!" (says the Utahn who scuba'd once and owns a snorkel)
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
TURTLE PATROL
I just had my first day of training for Turtle Patrol. Which involves helping the baby turtles get from the beach to the water while protecting them from gators and storks.
"You can do it, little dude!
"Turtle Power!"
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Sunday, May 04, 2014
Herbie the Heron
Each night when I walk down the dock to my boat I inevitably cross paths with a 4 foot tall white bird. I turn the corner and there he is, standing his ground on two long spindly legs. I always stop short, surprised that this particular bird doesn't just fly away squawking, like all the other birds. He just stands there, head cocked to the side, looking at me. He is literally sizing me up. I slowly walk towards him and he slowly walks away from me. All the way to my boat, where he stops and watches me climb aboard. We repeat this dance every evening.
I'm at the marina bar the other night and tell everyone about this crazy bird. "Herbie the Heron!" they tell me. He showed up at the dock 3 years ago all covered in oil. They didn't think he was going to make it, but he survived. And he's been living at our marina ever since.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2014
OB rotation
So I pull the baby out thru the c section and as I'm holding him he opens his eyes and looks up at me, the first human he's ever seen - and I watch as he goes from bewilderment to pure ANGER. Sorry little dude. Welcome to the world.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Southern Freeze 2014
Captain's Log: The heater has stopped working and ice has made escape from Dataw Island impossible. Internet and food stores continue to hold out. Morale is still high. — at Dataw Island Marina.
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Sunday, December 01, 2013
ZOMBIE apocalypse
Zombie movie plus ER night shift might be the worse idea ever. Everyone is a zombie until proven otherwise.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Great White Shark
I'm pretty sure Mary Lee swam under my boat.
http://www.sharkattacknews.org/2013/11/photo-did-famed-great-white-mary-lee.html
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Flying Standby On JetBlue
JFK terminal 5 They post the weather on the info board above the gate.
Puerto Rico? Yes please. RAINY PUERTO RICO? Pass.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Red in morning, Sailor take warning.
Watching the sun rise over the water does funny things to a person. I find myself daydreaming during clinic about how far across the ocean I could sail before I run out of food…
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Meet Dave
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Life's Too Short
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
SHE BOILED THE BUNNY
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
slipping away one week at time
(forest firefighting in central utah)
The first time I hiked that peak
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
route 801 (business attire only)
Literally every person on this bus is wearing a suit and tie except for me.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
ONE MILLION MILES
My bus driver is named kent and he's driven one million miles without an accident, according to the patch on his shirt. Will they take away his shirt if he crashes? How many of those miles were driven with one hand down the front of his pants? It doesnt seem very sanitary or safe, but then i remember the patch. Cant argue with one million miles.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
romance on route 811 (in realtime)
12:55
kid in front of me is writing in his journal while i am reading it. hes writing about the girl sitting next to him and how he's too scared to talk to her.
13:09
journal kid finally got up the courage and is now making incredibly awkward conversation with girl. their conversation easily heard throughout the bus. people are starting to share looks and laugh.
13:11
girl just got off and gave awkward kid her name so they can be facebook friends. and now hes writing in his journal again. cant read his writing this time but he's ending every sentence with two exclamation points.
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
LOOK BEHIND YOU
Lately, I'm that main character. Someone is yelling at the screen but i cant quite hear what they're saying. It could be, DONT DRINK THAT! or, CHECK BEHIND THE SHOWER CURTAIN! or even KISS HER ALREADY!
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
DRAGONS
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
get her out of my heart
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
purple alien
i biked across downtown during an afternoon blizzard to get to class on time. the ta spent the first 15 minutes of class showing facebook pics of his baby, which looks like a purple alien.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Train Wreck
train wreck
what if all your ex-girlfriends
were gathered in the same room
would they yell at each other?
would they fight to the death?
would it be like putting scorpions in jar
and shaking it up?
or like seeing an imminent train wreck,
you want to look away but can't
no, its much worse.
they would all get along really well
they'd share stories and laugh together
and form a facebook group
and agree to meet monthly
at 13:30
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
No joke.
While walking thru my house yesterday I found a small black bird trapped in a glass cupboard which is built into the wall of the living room. After the initial shock I decided the only way for a bird to get inside a cupboard was if someone put it there as a joke. So I put on some gloves and tossed him outside. Thirty minutes later he was in the glass cabinet again. No joke.
at 13:12
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Denmark is consistently rated the happiest country in the world
Last year while walking from the train station to a hostel in Copenhagen I came upon a burning car in the middle of an intersection. No one else was around, just me and the burning vw. During the next week there were street riots but because I dont speak Danish I didn't ever figure out why people were so upset. Today I finally got around to looking up some news articles and this is basically what i found out:
On March 1 the Danish government evicted all tenants/squatters from an abandoned building using Danish Special Forces. The building was completely torn down four days later.
During the next week, the largest riots since WWII took place in downtown Copenhagen. Angry mobs constructed street barricades and built bonfires in the middle of intersections. The riot police had to retake the suburb of Norrebro street by street.
After my initial shock of the burning car, the daily riots became pretty routine and I had assumed that was just what Denmark was like all the time.
at 11:36
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Provo River Rapids
Yesterday was my first official day as a Provo River Raft Guide. I did the river twice, the first trip was a couple of teenage girls from the east coast who now believe that moose hide under water and that piranhas are native to the Utah. The second group was a bunch of scouts. Four rafts full of them. The entire 6 miles of river was an extended water fight.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
green valley gap to guardsman's pass
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Epic New Year
2007 will be a year for adventures. Last week's adventure was surviving the medieval illness that threatened my immune system.
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Friday, December 15, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
History Paper
i've got 7 more pages to write for my history paper and I'm writing a blog.... but i've got nothing to blog about. maybe if i take a break and write my history paper something will come to me.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
sleep now or sleep later
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Monday, October 16, 2006
Battle of Kadesh
I've got a two page paper due tomorrow in my Ancient Near East History class tomorrow morning which I haven't started. It's getting fairly late and all I've managed to accomplish is signing up for this blog.
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