Sunday, August 06, 2006

My Own Self Be Back

Last week: Got dragged around a lake in Tennessee by a very fast boat. I crashed very impressively and numerous times. I did well. I skiied [what the hell is the past tense for ski?] on one ski pretty consistently, but only after being pulled up on two skis and dropping one. I gave it my best effort to get up on one ski from the sinking position, but I'm not kidding you when I say that I still can't comfortably use my right shoulder after having it repeatedly yanked out of its socket by the 350 horsepower boat that was somehow connected to it by way of a rope and my arm. At the time, I thought I was letting go early in the process. I now realize that I let go a little bit late simply by the fact that I was actually in the water and being unnaturally pulled to the point of disability. Letting go prior to entering the boat via the dock may have been a more wise decision.

This past week: Relatives in Ohio. Lots of eating fresh corn on the cob between card games and yard games. Ate a good tomato a time or two. Not bad at all.

2 Comments:

At 8/07/2006 8:51 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is my emoticon of one of Teo's falls behind the boat. You will need to mentally rotate it ninety degrees to the left in order to appreciate the full effect:

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Hm. That doesn't quite capture it. Let me 'splain. The asterisk is splashy water. One arm of the V is legs. The other arm is, well, arms.

Oh, hell. Teo, will you just post the pic? I know it's small, far away, and about nine seconds before the actual fall, but still ...

And P.S.? That was the fastest I've ever seen anyone learn how to ski on one ski. (If you're not gonna brag about it, I am.)

 
At 8/07/2006 12:40 PM, Blogger Kevlar Pinata said...

Post the picture! C'mon!

Ted.
Motion.
Water.
Impact.

I love the whole combination.

 

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