Sea Scouts Yesterday

Yesterday was a crazy day at scouts. We did base duty for have the day and went wakeboarding for the rest of the day. On our way back we tore a bracket off the bottom of the boat. So I spent a lot of time working on that trying to put patches on the huge holes in the bottom of the boat. It was crazy to see huge holes in the bottom of the boat. We spent hours patching the bottom with plywood and under water epoxy. I need to get dive certified so I don't have to snorkel. I am glad it wasn't out boat because the boat that it happened to was better equipped with watertight bulkheads and foam floatation in the hull. It could have been real bad and dangerous. As it was it is going to be Expensive and annoying but not life threatening. I will do what I can to help them fix it. D

Great Grandmother Mary

Well My great gandmother Mary passed away at 3am on Saturday Morning. She was 94 going to be 95 in September. She was born in Canada. Lived in California most of her life near where I was born. I spent a lot of time with her as a kid I would go and help her with the garden in the summer. She was a Packrat. Her house will be hell to clean up. Sweetest lady, best cook. I still remember the fried apples fried in bacon grease. wow that was some flavor. she had coffee with rocky road ice cream in it everyday. Lived in a town called Covelo. Drove a early 80s Datsun pickup. Her house was near the autoparts store and the Hank's Grocery store. Her funeral will be in September around the 11th. Damien

Numb

So I got a call from my family today telling me that my great Grandmother Mary wont make it through the night. I spent a lot of time as a kid with her at her house helping her around the house. D

REI This morning

So I went to REI this morning for the first day of their clearance sale. 10:00 AM on a Friday morning and there are 150 people standing outside. I got there five minutes early and when I had parked and walk to the from there were people in the cashier line. I was crazy. I did get my sandals that I have be trying to get for a while. D

The man from across the sea.

So I met a guy from the UK that is a whole lot of fun to talk to. His stories are crazy. He was a TV producer before he moved here to marry his girlfriend. He has to wait 6 months to get a job and his citizenship. Anyway that is the latest stuff as far as work goes. He and I talked for about 2 hours yesterday about everything from work to travel. D

Tuesday Night Blues

So I went to Tuesday night blues last night at Nocturnal. It was a blast. I had a lot of fun. It was a great atmosphere. I was afraid it was going to be to young and stuck up but it was great. I had a lot of great dances. The lessons were good. I find myself using the stuff i learned all the time. I wish I could go every Tuesday but Sea Scouts makes it hard. D

My Uncle Brendon

Well my uncle died last Saturday. Third funeral I have been to this year. I wish I would have know him more on an adult level. I hung out with him as a kid a lot but as an adult not so much. His friends said lots of very nice things about him at his vigil. They even made stickers that said "What Would Marty Do?" Funny how the family and old friends knew him as Brendon and everyone else called him Marty. Marty was his first name Brendon His second. He spent his life helping a lot of people in Tacoma Washington. He feed the homeless, Work for an organization within the Catholic church that housed them. Worked for the Health department in the needle exchange program to prevent the spread of AIDS in the IV drug using population. He also distributed free condoms at the same time. Hard to see him go. He spent the last year in a home for people with demensia. They thought he was a loony asshole. D

Point Defiance AIDS project put this in their newsletter about him:

SADNEWS: We are sad to report the death of Marty Ralph, long - time staff person at the Needle Exchange. Marty was one of the first to join Dave Purchase in the distribution and exchange of clean needles to heroin addicts in Tacoma in the late 1980’s. In the next decade, Marty personally interacted with and educated thousands of persons who injected drugs in Tacoma, handing out well over a million clean syringes – and saving countless lives. Martyhad a passion about his work saving lives and protecting people from HIV that will be missed. Our thoughts are with the PDAP family as they cope with this loss