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Basic Bareboat Chartering

The first day we were on Evasion, which was a Beneto boat.  I didn’t like it, as it felt quick and nimble but was really hard to steer or deal with in any way.  We did a lot of parking practice in the morning, then went out on the water in the afternoon to do some man overboard, jibing, reefing, and heaving to practice.  It was a gorgeous day the whole day.  Steph and I had a nice lunch on the boat.

The second day we got there to find out that a Half Maraton had made it so we could not get to the harbor by driving.  We parked next to the market where we had grabbed lunch before and then walked down to the ship.  We were on Wind Goddess, a really nice Catalina 32.  We started out with some parking practice and while pulling into the fuel dock I got complimented by the Coast Guard on my parking.  The parking job was really smooth, I stopped perfectly where I wanted to and perfectly parallel to the dock.  We filled up on water and emptied the head then did some more parking practice.  After a nice lunch on the ship, where I also grabbed some of Steve’s pizza, we did our parking test.  We all did rather well, except that the bow of my 90˚ parking job went wayyyy out.  I think a good bit of that was Alex focusing on the dock line instead of the ship, but I should have been able to get him to bring it in.  We went out on the Ocean for the rest of the exam and there was a big souther swell and really strong wind that made it quite hard to work.  We ended up taking in 2 reefs while out there and the whole test went really well.  I got a 97/96 and Steph got a 95/95.  passing was a 90 so we both passed by a lot and did really well.  Steve complimented me on learning so quickly and doing really well, which was really nice to hear.  I hope we can go sailing with him again.  Perhaps we can charter his boat so that we can learn a more complicated sail structure; his boat has 4 sails.

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Anyone want to live with me in Mountain View? One of my roommates just moved out to live with his girlfriend.

Status change on Facebook

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Zeni

Steph and I went to Zeni after sailing to meet Jeremy there.  We saw Abe and Karen when we got there and Karen is very pregnant.  We didn’t get the combos like we had normally.  Instead we got Yemizer Wat, Fava Beans, and Gomen Kitfo.  Jeremy also got a seasoned beef.  Steph got the honey wine.

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GeoGuessr

Friday night and Saturday night this weekend we played a game called GeoGuessr.  It is a really fun game where you are placed randomly somewhere in street view and you are supposed to figure out where by just moving around and looking at things.  It is really difficult sometimes when you are placed in a random field, but when you are in the cities it isn’t too bad.

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Genesis and Exodus from New King James Version of the Bible

I never really thought about how terrible some of the things the people of God did before.  I’d heard some jokes about it before but listening to these two books (part 1) of the Bible audiobook bring it out.  Some of the terrible things are:

Giving away your wife so that you can get into the community, but telling everyone that she is your sister, then waiting for God to get angry and threaten to destroy the other person for their iniquity even when they didn’t know anything about it and taking a lot of their property as a reverse dowry of sorts.  After all of this you go to another city and do it all over again.  And then your descendant does it as well.  The excuse given is that you were afraid they would kill you to steal your wife.

After one of the daughters of your people has pre-marital relations with boy from another group you demand that him and all of his people circumcise themselves and tell them that they can then marry your women.  When they are all in huge pain from circumcising themselves you kill them all.

God sets a plague upon someone because they aren’t doing what God wants.  God makes them not change their mind so that God can show his power, and sets another plague on the person.  God then does this 4 more times before allowing the person to change their mind.  God them decides that the person should change back so God can have him destroyed.

God makes a people unable to convert so that they can be destroyed for not believing.

God makes new life, then when it hasn’t fully met it’s potential, he decides to remove it all from the earth (earth sized abortion).

This is also rife with the joke I put in the book of Mormon.  It is much worse in fact than the Book of Mormon in justifying anything a believer does to a non-believer because of the belief.

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Abiding in Mindfulness, Vol. 3: On Dhamma

This book was very repetitive of the first two and I can’t tell if the guy likes telling the same stories over and over or if they repeated content between the books.  I think it is the former.  He references many of the good books and studies I’ve been listening to lately, like the marshmallow experiment from the willpower instinct.  I really enjoy the points he has on mindfulness and not being attached to emotion, but I still can’t get behind the end goal.  If the end goal is enlightenment and enlightenment is being fully detached from the world, then that is something that I don’t want.  I want to be fully attached to the world, but in control of myself.  I want to rule over my instinct, emotions, desires, and thoughts so that they don’t rule over me.  To do this I think the practices of Buddhism are very spot on, but the end goals that we strive for diverge greatly.

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Space Commander

Last night, Steph, Nick, Brian, Jeff, and Chris played Space Commander with me.  It was an interesting game full of many minigames.  These minigames were supposed to rotate between people, but we wanted to get used to the game and chose to not do that.  The game was very difficult, confusing, and complex.  I did not like the game at all.  I don’t think I would have liked it much better had I been at a different station.  I was playing the Helm station and controlling where the ship went, which was decently easy.  I was able to get where I wanted most of the time, but not all the time.  We landed on the crystals many times, but were never really set up to pick them up because we were focusing on killing the enemies.  It would have been much better to zoom in, pick up the crystals, and zoom out.  I don’t think I’m willing to play this game again.

BGG LInk

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Book of Mormon

Wow was this dry and not at all what I was expecting.  This also was the worst narration of any book I’ve listened to.  The narrator reads the chapter number and verse, then rereads the verse number for every single verse in the entire book.  It was painful.  The history of the people in the book was mainly along the lines of ‘the people sinned so God did not answer them or was wrath with them, then they were faithful again and God killed their enemies.’  Something I’ve been finding to be very true in most of the religious text I’ve been reading (besides Buddhist texts) is that they all follow the lines of the joke below

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Again, Civ5

Steph and I started a new game last night, we are going for diplomatic victory on a Pangea map.  We can’t find some of the Civs, so there may be another continent that we just can’t see.

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