A heartfelt thanks to each and everyone who has served this nation and made her what she is today. God bless you.

If you take something by force

There is never enough

If you share it

There will always be something left over

- Mitsuo Aida -

It’s that time of the year again! This Friday, the largest regatta on the West Coast begins! It’s three days of racing, parties and nursing bruised and sore muscles.

We’ll be doing the windward-leeward buoy races on Charisma V – USA 46441. This will be the first time we have done these. I don’t expect us to win since we’ll be racing against professional and semi-professional crews, but I do think we can finish in the middle of the pack barring any equipment failures or stupid mistakes. We shall see!

I will attempt to take some photos from on the boat and post them after the races – key word attempt. It’s hard to take pictures when you are hustling around the deck during a race.

In the meantime, enjoy some boat porn from last year!

If you are in the area, do stop by and enjoy the spectacle and the parties, it’s always a good time for sailors and non-sailors alike!

I have, from day one, stated that President Obama is utterly out of sync with the American populous, its values, and its traditions. I think this picture so clearly captures that lack of sync, that it is worthy of a Pulitzer.

Literally everyone around him is doing the wave and there he sits, looking bored, irritated and wistful. As if being at the game is an imposition forced upon him and he’d rather be doing something else. Perhaps golfing yet again? Perhaps another fancy party at the Whitehouse? Perhaps another concert? I suspect anything other than being around the common people and having to endure their silly game. As Dorothy Rabinowitz so aptly put it, we truly do have an alien living in the Whitehouse.

Sorry for the lack of post this last week, the fiancé and I have been busy preparing for the Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week Regatta.

You would be surprised at the parallels between sailing competitively with a team and designing software with a team. At least coding doesn’t leave physical bruises – well at least some times. There was that one time debating on the patent filing…

Since I missed my usual Caturday post, I present you with Sunday Night “Neko In the Jungle”

Properly groomed eyebrows are a must.