Long time...

Time is just not on my side currently, it's trickling away from me faster than the tide...

So, quick re-cap before Monday morning grabs me and the melody-go-round fires off again!

Midland areas at Staunton Harold, 20 boats, kinda dissapointing I think? wind was fairly light, sun was out for a bit then it rained solid for the night and next day! We had a good first race, first round the windward mark, but then lost a fair bit and ended up 6th... after that it went bad...stabalised and basically although it was a good weekend, close racing, great beer (including the Captain G&T that me and Steve invented), broken sleep with the rain thudding on the roof and then more average sailing in the rain...sigh, we ended up 10th.... not happy really with that...again... getting boring this me not being happy with my results!

Then last Sunday I took the kids out in my dads Solo for the first time in a while... Youngest is a bit of a nutter / ninja-crew in the boat... no fear and really loves it, eldest is a little more controlled but once I got him helming he got really into it...so much so that I managed to get 5 mins sat on the foredeck, legs round the mast being a kid again! BVloody fantastic hour and a half sailing!

Then this weekend there was 2 days of "fun" at the club.... Saturday evening there was a BBQ and disco.... the sun was very warm, no breeze the BBQ was great...especially the toasted marshmallows, I had a good few mints of "Hooky", we watched the sun set with the kids playing on the shore and the music drifting out of the clubhouse... I find that kinda think amazingly chilling...

Then today was the inter-fleet champs... 6 teams of 10 or more sailors form the different fleets - Managerie, Fireball, Youth&Juniors, Miracle, Flying 15's and Solo's... very short races (10-15 mins) infront of the club house in either Laser 2's, Laser Vago's or Pico's... I had the pleasure of sailing with Lance (crewing once, we came 4th) and helming twice...first in both :-) the rest of the team had some good races and some bad... my dad capsized in 3rd place on the finish-line in the Pico...not happy! In the end after a stilt-walker, magicion, bouncy-castle, sumo-suit wrestling, sailing demo's, windsurfing have-a-go's and stacks of races.... Youth&Juniors won... well done... we came 4th or 5th but it was a fun day, I think and the wind held up and the sun shone so most people were smiling as they went home.....

Anyway lastly, best give you the recipe for Captain G&T:

Any Good landlord will tell you to stop drinking if you order this becuase in order to drink it you must have drunk way too much already....

The woman at Staunton Harold that served us obviosuly hadnt though it through... so:

Captain G&T
1 measure of Gin
1 measure of Captains Rum
Some Tonic
Shaken and Slurred

...it turns a lovely golden colour and tastes like crap... still and midnight-ish who actually cares...?
sailing boat soulsailor

Innovative Apps Evangelist 4 Hire

So it's all going a bit wrong at work, time for a new challenge, time to spread my wings, embrace change and go out their into the real world, smell the coffee etc etc...

So, it's 95% official, I'm now on the look out for a new organisation that I can add value to, that will challenge and stretch me, support me and add value to my life; anyone know of such an organisation in the UK?

My CV's opening paragraph says this...

"...A passionate, dedicated technical manager and Microsoft applications platform evangelist. Maintaining a successful track record in managing development teams, implementing application solutions, delivering application strategies and innovation within a wide range of sectors..."

[Email me if you want a copy of my CV.]

My profile and recommendations are up on LinkedIn here:

and adds:

"...Rapidly expanding interest and experience with regards to Web2.0, Social Media, Social Networking and consumer web applications and their pervasiveness and applicability in the enterprise..."

So, there we are, that's who I am "professionally", back on the market again for new challenges, come and find me...

soulsailor

WTF? Soulsailor.Com

I'm not sure I like "Jim", he has gone and re-registered the domain name www.soulsailor.com! What have I done to upset him?

I want that bloody domain name, I realise that blogging about this won't help, in fact he will probably get more traffic to his site, which BTW only has a yahoo landing page and has no actual bloody value...

If anyone knows "jim" or lives in Greenville, TX then please ask him what the hell he's upto... I can't work it out... it's not like I have stacks of cash to offer him stupid money for it, it ain't that important, but if it was there I would register it and I am a grandfather of sailing blogging so says Tillerman so I must deserve it?

Domain Name.......... soulsailor.com
Creation Date........ 2005-02-02
Registration Date.... 2005-02-02
Expiry Date.......... 2008-02-02
Organisation Name.... Jim Goodwin
Organisation Address. 2515 Park St.
Organisation Address. Greenville
Organisation Address. 75401
Organisation Address. TX
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Come on Jim, play fair... either do something decent with the domain name or let me have it... wasting domain-names just ain't cricket or sailing or plain fair....
this post feels a bit lide saddam hussein father christmas and snow all put into a single google search box with hillary clintons face hanging off of beckhams boot, maybe paintball or runescape or a little bit of aer lingus might help?