To state the obvious, I haven't done much with this blog in the last year or so. This is partly because it was originally designed to document adventures with my buddy David on our sailboat. For a while there was a lot to talk about but eventually we started doing the same things, going the same places and learning the same lessons. I recall saying to David, "I feel like we're digging a trench in the water between here and Gambier Island." This repetition doesn't make for compelling reading (not that many people are really reading this anyway but that's kind of an existential black hole for a blogger).
John Lennon said that "life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." It seems that while I was paused waiting for more interesting sailing to write about, the rest of my life changed significantly. Developments in my career and other parts of my personal life have made me realize that there is much more to talk about than just sailing. On the other hand, I've come to realize that to be bored with living in Vancouver and sailing on the Pacific ocean is a shameful thing indeed. I've been wasting time ruminating over turns in my career, my expanding waistline and other things when I should be seizing every moment I have living in this beautiful part of the world. In the spirit of this new thinking, I've renamed this blog "Not a Moment to Lose." I'll still be relating my better/funnier/dumber moments on the boat but also using this medium to give voice to some of my other thoughts and opinions that up till now have been mostly foisted on my long-suffering friends over beers.
