Messin’ with Texas

• Yesterday i got ambushed when i was called up to speak at the all-hands safety meeting in front of 100+ people. I think i did well. #
• Embarking on a 100 mile, two day sailing trip to move my boat from houston to port arthur. Clear skies, sunny, light breeze- perfect! #
• We hit bottom twice so far on our trip down the inter-coastal water way. #
• We are having some engine troubles, Wind is strong though and in the right direction. Mark is nervous but i am calm. I worry about sun burn. #
• The place we planned to tie up to for tie night was completely wiped out by tie hurricane and silted in. We will just keep going and bank it #
• For the past 2 to 3 hrs we have seen nothing but two cow pastures- one on each side of the waterway (icw) #
• We are making awesome time! Will have finished 80 or 90 miles by sun down! Our earlier problems have dissapeared. #
• We tried anchoring in an alcove for the night in an abandoned fueling station and ended up running aground. It hasn't been dredged lately #
• 60mins of sailing in the dark. finally we anchored in a side channel near the bank. checked the forecast – we won't blow aground at night #
• the down side of anchoring on the icw is that it's surrounded by marsh, which means mosquitoes. Tons of them! like ants, they find a way in. #
• We finally made it! Back on land, on my way down the highway to pick up my car! My boat is now docked at it's new home. #

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• icing my ankle in bed from an injury at soccer. Next week our season starts and i'm not sure i'll play. Our team is great. We'll win. #
• Ice on my car again! This winter has been super cold! #
• The new contractors on my project are all cajuns. They all talk like leatherhead from the ninja turtles cartoon. It is hard to be serious #
• I complained that no one got me a cake yesterday morning at work. At about one, i turned around and there was a birthday cake on the desk #
• Lunch today was left over cous cous a friend made me for my birthday yesterday. It was great! #

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• At work, my unit won the team safety bowl (safety competition on the project) for the month of February! Way to go guys! #

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For 40 dollars you get lunch and a 6 hour day of horseback riding in the mountains outside of Quito, transportation included. In hindsight, I guess they were closer to high hills. It was good fun, although there was a lot of down time before and after the ride waiting for transportation. My butt wasn’t built for six hours on a horse though and if I go back, I will go for the 4 hour trip.

I have super busy so I have been late posting a lot of things. My life has been very hectic lately. I am going to start a series of entries here posting my videos from my trip to Ecuador in January. It was a great trip and I had a lot of fun. I will probably post some pictures too and some entries. I ill eventually get back to posting about Texas.

First is my video of my attempted climb of mount Cotopaxi, outside of Latacunga. The video covers almost everything about how it went. It costs 250 USD to higher my own guide and cover food and lodging and all equipment. I thought it was a fair price but I probably could have negotiated. It would have been much cheaper if I could have found someone to go with me and split the price, but oh well. I sort of got talked into doing this by talking to some Australians who will appear in later videos. They were talking about making the climb and I decided to skip taking a very famous train ride on one of the country’s last remaining train tracks, and go climb the mountain instead. After the all night climb I took a nap, went directly to the Quito airport and flew to Guayaquil for the wedding. I was very tired.

• Great weekend! Rock climbing Friday, sailing all day Saturday, 3hrs of soccer and board gaming Sunday. And no work for the holiday on Monday #
• @ranababac what is your new blog? in reply to ranababac #
• I kind of knew this deep down inside, but I am glad someone did some research on this: http://tinyurl.com/yjaqoh8 #

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• Way to go saints!!! #
• I just joined the port arthur yacht club. #
• It is 35 F outside in Port Arthur right now and I am freezing! My hands can barely move! #
• Sailing at ten am tomorrow in houston. Anyone want to come with me? #

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• Wow. Small world. I just net a married couple at the wine bar who knew my dating history, who my friends are and what i do for a living. #

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• Lecture tonight on terrorism: the new world disorder #
• Playing paint ball today for jared's bachelor party. It is cold, very wet and very muddy. But a lot of fun! #

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• Why is it that every time i have the day off, i end up spending 50 bucks on a board game i am probably not going to play? #
• I made swiss fondue for dinner. now my tummy hurts. It was totally worth it. what people at work will think when i eat fondue for lunch? #
• Busy week so far: got my soccer team squared away for the spring, bought a 26' sail boat and finally agreed on price for a house! #

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