Griff Hazen

OK, so the last couple days have been pretty sweet! Yesterday I went sailboat racing with a friend and a few other skippers in Redwood City, and even though we started 3 minutes late, we were able to pull in at 4th place. We may have come in second if we started on time :). It was a blast. Water crashing into the boat, ropes flying everywhere, plus we got to fly the spinnaker for a while . I only messed up and got yelled at a few times. We sailed a J24 sailboat, which I think means it is made by company J and is 24 feet long. The sailing lingo is about impossible to understand.

I joined the Google corporate coed (read super low competition) softball league and we had our first game today. I messed up a couple times, but I was able to hit one home run. Our team (No Popups) won 19-3 against another company.

Tomorrow morning I'm driving to Weaverville, California, population 3554, to spend 4 days with relatives. The place is amazingly festive for its population. festivities include a 10k run, pancake breakfest, rodeo, car wrecking, food eating contest, fireworks, drinking:), arm wrestle competition, pig racing, live music... Should be exciting.

Hope everyone has a great Independence Day holiday, hopefully blowing some stuff up in the process.

Best,
Griff

Hello! I was hoping to have something really cool to discuss for my first entry, but it's about time to break the ice. I'm very grateful that whitaker was able to hook me up with my first name on lj, surely promoting my increased post-rate, plus I wasn't into having the user whittakersmom223 forever :) To follow up with a deal I made with him, I purchased a nice gray long sleeve LJ shirt.

I found a new hobbie to start up with a friend David Braginski. We went to Redwood City this evening to try crewing on a large sailboat. There are weekly races between many large boats, often running for a few hours. I had to cancel after meeting the sailors because I have missions in San Francisco tonight relating to my move. Looking forward to next wednesday's race!