with all those moods to choose from and i pick "good" the most standard reply e'er. anyway, i was feeling like shit yesterday, not actually hungover just.. fucked.. i got cold. and i never get cold. like i'll sit in the snow in shirt and pants and not think much of it. meh. i went sailing today. it was scary. it was good. we were heading up wind and *fortunately* someone ( a guy called graham, actually) had tied a couple of reefing lines onto the sail, that was fortunate because, in a 35knot gust the rear stay decided to go flying, past my head at something like 250m/s this is 7x18 core cable we're talking about. 10mm of twisted steel wire. it makes a rather neat sound as it flies past though. anyway, hell broke loose after that (as the saying goes), the reefing lines were tied arou|nd each other, the mast twisted too far down leaving the boom pushing it sideways ish, the cunningham had to be put to the next eyelet but the rope was too short, so we had to drop the mainsheet quite a way. meh. it was fun. someone once ompared sailing to standing fully clothed in the shower, while ripping up 100$ bills. i'd say theyr'e right ish only i'm ripping up other peoples munnies. haha yes, all from me. love to all i love. haha B0b 1939|271104