gwax's rumblings

I spoke on the phone with a man from the boat­build­ing com­pany Team Vanguard, which is based in Rhode Island. I’ve had some cor­re­spon­dance with a cou­ple of guys in the com­pany over the past few weeks with regards to the pos­si­bil­ity of try­ing to get an engi­neer­ing job with them. They’re going to be doing inter­views in a few weeks and with luck, I’ll get to be one of them. If all goes well, I’ll be a boat­build­ing engi­neer next year; I’ll keep you all posted as things progress.

Before ice block sled­ding last night, Dave and I encoun­tered a bunch of younger folks on the golf course and we were informed that we, “Diesel Dave” and “The Beard Guy”, are leg­ends. I have got to say, it’s pretty keen to be a leg­end, even if it’s for a bunch of teenagers.

Side note: If you’re look­ing for infor­ma­tion on the book I am Legend by Richard Matheson, you should look some­where else. That hav­ing been said, I did intend the ref­er­ence and highly rec­om­mend the book

Last night, a bunch of the gang and I went ice block sled­ding, which is truly one of the most fun things one can do. After that, Dave, Julia and I went back to Dave’s place and sat around play­ing Scrabble for a while. If you add to that, play­ing go, sail­ing, par­ty­ing and sit­ting around, you’ve got a pretty solid pic­ture of what I do these days. It’s really quite pleas­ant all around. Of course, I do work on week­days, but that’s kind of nice too.

My younger brother, Dave, turned 18 yes­ter­day. I’m not nor­mally the sort to be taken by sur­prise by such things, but it’s kind of bizarre to think that he’s no longer a minor. At least Joe’s still only 9, not that that’ll last forever.

I woke up today, still in the funk that hit me last night but, since my morn­ing shower, I’ve started to get over it a lit­tle bit. I’m going to be ok, just kind of pissed off for a while.

My truck’s moon­roof just exploded. I think that I will replace it with a piece of plexiglass.

I am now back in Woods Hole for yet another sum­mer and, I have to say, it feels nice. Some of the old crowd is around and we’ll have new folks too. And, as soon as this weather clears out, I’ll get some sail­ing in.