On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Gautam Mukunda wrote:

> Let's see, what else is going on...I've been learning to sail, and spending
> almost every weekend out on the Charles River.  It's an enormous amount of
> fun - I wish I'd started years earlier.  I really can't believe how much
> I've changed since I went to college.  My hobbies then were probably
> reading, and, well, reading.  Now it's sailing, weightlifting, baseball (and
> reading).  I would never have imagined that even two years ago, much less
> five.  The first time you do a jib in high winds and see the boom SWISH!
> over your head - that's really exciting.

Ain't it though?  Going really fast in a sailboat that's tilted way over
just make you look at the yahoos on sea-doos and speedboats and think,
"Pffft. Suckers."


Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

There ain't no Devil; there's just God when he's drunk.
   -- Tom Waits

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