Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you – coldplay

Did you ever have a day when you were pretty sure something ominous was going to happen? A day you knew to be your last day on earth!!?? I have those days every so often. All day long I walk through the world with my ears pinned back waiting for my demise. My fingers tingle, I break out in sweats and my heart just races. If you can relate to this then your either crazy or suffering anxiety issues. But lucky you can pick which label you’d like to wear. I find comfort somewhere in the middle. Just call it a “cozy crazy anxiety thing” One thing I know, is for me the dread is usually triggered by something really good happening. Now tell me that’s not strange. So someone says “You sir, have just won 11 million dollars!” and suddenly I’d be locking myself in a closet and waiting for some Godzilla sized, Grim Reaper claw-paw, to crash through my ceiling and drag me up into oblivion. Yikes!, I’ve got to find some new distractions. . . I got a few suggestions in my email this morning but I think there are laws against those suggestions. . . well in 38 states anyway.On a totally different subject I’ve been doing some updating on the website again. You know, a kayak is not really cool until its almost trashed, a website on the other hand needs some regular maintenance. This time around I’m updating all the photo galleries. I’m trying to cut each one down to the “essentials” so to speak. Of course, if you take 1100 photos at an event, it seems like you’ve already hacked away to get it down to 100. Now, I’m trying to get each gallery down below 30. I’d need a cold hearted editor if it weren’t for the fact that it’s my website and I can do what I want!! But the best part is the new format which uses Flash to produce a nice automatic slide-show when you click the little play button. You can also just put a mouse over an image to see the caption. Or click the “?” to keep the captions up. In fact there’s all sorts of fun ways to navigate. In addition the photographs are bigger now as well. I’ve had some emails now and then suggesting that I get those pictures bigger. Ok, ok, I’m working on it!! So far I’ve manage to get through the personal shots (that’s the easy part), and now I’m working through all the event & symposium galleries. I think from now on I’ll still put up big galleries for a couple months after an event, then cut it down after that. We’ll see. Often times I think I know exactly what I’m going to do. . then I do something completely different!

By the way, the kayak above is probably the single most “Cool” kayak I’ve ever seen. This totally loved, totally trashed Valley Nordkapp is practically a work of art. I doubt any artist today could come up with this perfect blend of faded paint, glue overrun, mis-matched patching, tape, rope and rubber. The fact that it’s old Nordkapp curves are so defined just adds to it’s beauty.

So I think that’s about it for the day. I’d better get going. I think I left my coffee in the closet. . .

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