This New Year started out with a bang! Myself and some associates, The Muirs, Scrub and Stew drove down to Newport with Erin and Mikey ( who had the common sense not to join us ) and dove into the Ocean with the Newport Polar Bears to raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation. Man, what an experience. We did not start to take off our many layers of clothes until about 5 minutes before noon, Dip Time. The first thing you have to do is put your bare feet on the cold, wet sand. All feeling is lost in about 45 seconds. Running in place helps keep the blood flowing, and for once, my few addition percentage points of body fat actually helped me out. As the Muirs and Scrub probably have combined body fat % of -4.2. The dip consists of running into knee high water, throwing yourself into the ocean, and running back out of the water to your waiting piles of towels and pants, trying to dry yourself off before the water freezes to your body. All and all the experience was a great one, and I hope to repeat it next year.
I dont know if it was Justin’s sunglasses, Stew’s speedo or Ryan’s pink underwear, but the good people at WPRI decided to film our initial responses coming out of the 40 degree water, on a beautifully sunny 20 degree beach day. You’ll only see me in the background of this video, as my response of “Fucking cold!!” was “too real” for the fine people at WPRI Eyewitness News.
This New Year will also see me in new places. Like Rodney Dangerfield, I am going Back to School. Night courses at Harvard Extension School will earn me a Master of Liberal Arts in Information Technology. My first 2 courses are Organizational Behavior and Building Dynamic and Scalable Websites. Both classes are on Monday nights, so from 530PM-930PM I will have class. To help me with school, I bought myself a new laptop. The Asus 1000 eeePC, Linux edition of course. Nothing against the fine people at Asus, but the Xandros OS that was on there by default lasted almost 3 days before I replaced it with eeebuntu, a distro custom made for the eeePCs. I am quite satisfied with it.
My newest venture might be Facebook. Apparently, a close circle of “friends” have started an online petition to get me to join the Social Network of the Century. I have been resisting for quite some time, but if this petition can build up enough steam, I might grace the Book of Face with my presence.
So far 2009 is shaping up to be a pretty good year. Let’s hope it stays that way!
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