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c’mon Spring – step up!

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4:47 pm 4:47 pm

Beware of the Ides of March. This has been a bit odd Spring weather… frozen temperatures and snow! But, it’s spring and that means spring recreation. Wednesday I had to hit a bucket of balls, I wasn’t gonna let my new driver suffer the same fate as my old one. So… after many ‘fixes’ – I think I got the bugs worked out at the driving range. Just had to got back to the basics with a turn my foot to even out. Go ball go!

Thursday, we hit the trail via roller blades to ‘cross-train’ for Ski 2 Sea. I felt a lot more comfortable on those wheels this go around – didn’t have the constant sensation of falling.

But the snow began to fall again on Friday, meaning that the ski hills were getting a glorious amount of snow. Baker had gotten the most, and hadn’t reached above 19 degrees – meaning light fluffy snow! This opportunity couldn’t be passed up. We hit the ‘Ham Friday night; saw some of the crew, but kept it an early night. Oh man, what a nice day it was up on the hill! It is rare to enjoy that much light snow!

Sunday, even though the snow was off and on again back down in the Lynnhood; we stuck to the plan of roller blading again. It was a bit wet, therefor a bit slippery, but 2+ hours of exercise after a heavy day of ski’n felt good to do. The sun broke thru at the end of the ride as well.

Now it is Monday, back at work… and the sun is shining… just mocking me!

Numer One

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11:26 pm 11:26 pm

Over the Winter, we had been doubling up on indoor due to field closures. Our outdoor team was split in two to field two indoor teams; as indoor requires less players. Last Thursday we played the last game of that session… against the other half of our outdoor team. Some might say that they had the better squad – but those people would be wrong since we won! Yeah, okay… we were surpised too. It was one of the more fun games though – just like a pick-up ball of hoops at the park.

Still going to play Tuesday indoor; first game of the new session started yesterday. LB had posed an inspirational challenge over the winter just for Tuesday sessions. He kept a goals scored tally on the refrigerator. It was really more of a competition between him and Scott – as I am normally… hum… okay fine, I don’t score much. But actually over the Winter I scored a few more than normal, but Scott was on FIRE!!! So he takes the trophy (still to be developed). But after our win last night, first game of the new session… I’M NUMBER ONE. Another player on our team had a hat-trick, but he doesn’t count towards the fridge list. So I’m soaking up the bragging rights for now. Check the goal tracker on the right! Go me!

Pedal 2 Shop

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11:58 am 11:58 am

The first ride is always the hardest, but yesterday we got on the road bikes for the first time in’08. The Inter Urban Trail is just a few blocks from the pad, so figured that a nice pedal while get’n some errands out of the way would be a good use of a half-ways decent (weather-wise) Sunday.  Hit both the malls in the area – which both are on the trail; hmm… that is interesting. There are also several housing developments popping up along the trail as well.

My bike computer was on the glitch. I used my GPS to track speed; but had to Gmap the path to see how far we went. Looks like 18 miles or so, not too shabby for the first ride I’d say. Explains why my butt is so soar today!

It’s not the length of the drive that matters.

posted in: Golf - 1 Comment

9:44 pm 9:44 pm

I had the opportunity to play in a golf scramble in Palm Springs today. I know, what a bummer. It was the first time I’ve played since summer, and my practice shots were, well terrible. Others on the range were looking over their shoulders for my next wild ball! The first 9 holes, my drives were everywhere, quite useless to the team – my irons were fine though, so I was able to contribute in that way still. My lack of driving abilities set me up to win the ’shortest drive award’ though!

The other two I was playing with were driving really well, so they hit first. Both hit long balls for us to choose from. So… that left the ’shortest drive’ award to aim for. There was still 130 yds of rough to clear to reach the fairway, so a total duff wouldn’t win. I swung my 7 iron easy and clean. Plop and short roll. Under 10 yds on the fairways – PERFECT. That hit wasn’t beat all day… not that others were aiming for it I suppose.

The back nine I swung the club rentals of the guy I shared a cart with. Well, the good news is that I could blast to 250+ consistently with the 3W… I mean, what a difference. I was on fire off the tee box! The bad news… Callaway Big Bertha woods are not cheap. But really, the price of a happy golf game… priceless… right?

Muk Dive

posted in: Diving, Recreation - 3 Comments

1:18 pm 1:18 pm

The plan for Saturday was to hit up Stevens Pass for some snow skiing. The catch was, with all this snow that has been dumping, they couldn’t keep the roads open. By the end of Friday, all ski resorts in Washington declared that they weren’t going to be open on Saturday. But who needs snow when you got water right? Me, Jack, and Matt changed the ski plans to dive plans. The party goes on.

Went to Mukilteo – the Muk. I would not recommend this dive, not much out there. But it was fun just to go underwater; I had not been diving in while. This was the first time I used my camera case for diving! I opted not to go down with my light, as I knew I would be fiddling with the camera. Well… I need to figure out a way to mount my light with my camera – my pics were very dark and murky. The water visibility was okay, but the shots came out dark and green – those that actually were in focus.

The first trip down, rather uneventful. The second dive, we surface swam out to a buoy and dropped down to a sunken boat about 115 feet below. The decent was dark and I had no light, as mentioned above. Jack and Matt’s lights didn’t help either as no dive light can shoot that far through the water. So, we just followed the line down into the darkness. It was kind of creepy, but exciting at the same time. Once down, the boat was just 20′ ski boat – must have been down there awhile, had a fair amount of growth. Jack tried to start it, it was broke, and the steering was shot… geez. My photo attempts didn’t pan out, way too dark.

After investigating the boat and the fish that were hang’n out down there, we headed towards the shore. This was a much better dive than the first. We found the Geo Dome that was fabled to be ‘worth the trip’ but I dunno about that claim. There was a memorial statue in the middle that was kind of neat in that surroundings. All in all, fun to get wet and under water again, but won’t be going back to the Muk.

oops, got a couple problems with the vid clip, will re-post it later