First, thanks to all the people who responded to my blatant fishing for
compliments on the new
hair. Pitiful, I know, but your comments made me feel much, much better.
Being descended upon by hordes of rowing women yesterday turned out
to be mildly amusing. Five showed up but only two did erg pieces. The others were
there "to cheer". They'll have enough people to make up a four (DrunkTina is
coming over to do her piece tomorrow) but I think they really need more people
trying out to get a truly competitive boat. My guess is that Yosemite Sam's talk
about how intense the practices and competition would be scared a lot of people
off, though no one's giving that as a reason.
And since I'm always
talking about erging here, and I imagine a bunch of readers (assuming I
have a bunch of readers) going "Huh?", I promise I will post photos
tomorrow. I meant to do it today, but our cable was out last night (modem, TV, and
phone all down) so I couldn't upload them.
I almost forgot to say that today's practice was also quite amusing -- me in a
quad with Rudder and two other big guys. Don't ask me why YSam called it that way,
but it was fun as well as funny -- I've had worse rows. I did have trouble
steering with that much weight in the boat, so we took the scenic tour --
serpentines all over the lake.
Today's move to our other building at work turned out to be not so amusing. I can
access the Internet, but not the server all my work files are on. Also, the new
cube is 6' by 6', and way too exposed. I don't think this will be either
comfortable or productive. It's supposed to be temporary, only until October, but
I have some doubts our new building will be done by then. It's a pity too, because
this cubicle system is well designed as these things go -- there's just not enough
of it. Next I need to head over to Amazon to see if they're still selling the
Dilbert cubicle door.