I awoke this morning to the sound of Nick Osti's missile-launch style alarm from his iPhone, only to hear him groan and veto his own prior decision to run before breakfast. It apparently rained last night, and while I was initially mortified at the possibility my sailing manuals which I had left out last night would be utterly destroyed, fortunately the Force was with me, someone had placed a big plastic box on top of them and inadvertently safeguarded them from utter annihilation. It actually drizzled all day today, I pity the lifeguards immensely.
Breakfast was the traditional meal of specialist meetings, The egg McHowland's sandwich.
Lunch was melted cheese and bacon sandwiches. I approved heartily.
After lunch I rigged up a Capri and took it out along with Andrew and Jill, which was immensely enjoyable. I spent a few minutes teaching Andrew to operate the boat and he actually manned the helm for the rest of the voyage. Instead of yelling 'helm's a-lee' to let us know he was tacking, he chose to yell 'Helm's Deep'. I was okay with that mistake. We tacked up into Emerald Bay, waved at the Scout Camp, then saw a bunch of seagulls clustered over a spot out beyond Arrow Point. In the interest of spotting a shark, I ordered Andrew to reach out toward the area. When we got close we realized that actually it was a pod of dolphins that had corralled a school of fish together and were devouring them. We were able to get pretty close (unfortunately couldn't get any good pictures) but it was an amazing sail. Dolphins swam right up to the boat to check us out, there must have been a couple dozen of them.
Dinner was chicken and mashed potatoes. I keep eating salad too. What is happening to me?
Now I'm in the office answering Star Wars trivia with the leadership team. More money more problems!
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." - John Paul Jones, Father of the American Navy
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