Slowly but slowly

“Slowly but slowly,” as our roommate at the company condo Egan likes to say. “We’re slow, but we’re expensive!” as my uberskilled carpenter cousin Ian likes to say. 

It's all coming together here, but it'll be a while until we're truly cruising. We’ve moved into our new place and are getting settled in. 

We had a *great* ultimate tournament last weekend.  One of the best I’ve been to.  My opinion may be partially swayed by the fact that I felt the best I’ve felt at a tournament for a long time.  This was another story, thanks to lots of stretching and really slow running for the last year or so.  Ah, the discipline I never had in highschool or college.  I didn’t get the least bit injured, as far as I can tell.  That may actually be a first.  But on top of the personal victory, the tournament was awesome. 

We got good beer Friday and Saturday nights, good dinner both nights, a live band and a firedancing performance on Saturday, camping both nights, breakfast both days, great field food, including all the fresh local avocados, starfruit, and bananas you could eat; a pool and an ocean to swim in…all for $50.  Big props to the TDs.  It was really great to meet all the players, too.  Many from Alaska.  Many from the mainland.  I was most happy, though, to meet the other Hawaii players.  Ultimate is going to be fun here.

I’ll try to keep it short.  We don’t have internet at our new place yet, but every once in a while, my computer picks up a signal from one of the coffee shops down on Alii Drive.  Right now, I’m riding their waves and feeling fortunate.  So I’ll sign off and keep my fingers crossed that this actually posts.  When we get a more reliable connection, I will balance the personal posts with some more informative (and graphically interesting) ones.  For now, I’ll take the fleeting connection as a good omen!