Bonfire

In 35 minutes I will not be arriving at the "Bonfire of the Lifeguards". It was postponed, due to rain... I guess lifeguards don't like getting wet - go figure. My friend has the ability to put together "events" like almost nobody else. He worked with the best man at my wedding to put together the coolest bachelor party I'd ever been to (my own). Now he works at a pool and decided to put together a bonfire for his co-workers. (There usually seems to be a bonfire every summer) They usually involve eating food with unusual names like "Bunyan Burgers", or disarmingly normal names like "orange cake". He usually puts together some goofy skits that he enlists different people to help with..... everyone that attends has some secret to keep from everyone else. I think he thrives on these events. At times he'll take his show on the road. He's ridden across the United States on his bike... with his dog Cyclops. He and Cyclops also circumnavigated France one summer. He always brings back stories about people he meets and strange places that he makes camp. Though, he doesn't spend much time online he has a web presence on other people's blogs... it seems I'm not the first to blog about him. ( Here a family tells about their encouter with him in Oregon http://www.imagesales.com/Welcome/People/Paul/SFtoSeattle/BikeTrip2000index.html?Day10.html)

In other news, the Lioness and I spent the weekend on the coast with some friends (Their family has a condomium in the bay there) . It was a wonderful place to be... watching the boats come and go. We had a nice dinner Friday evening, and spent Saturday shopping at an outlet mall and laying on the beach.

I hope to go back to free dive (or SCUBA) there. I went hunting there along the jetty once... but visibility to was so bad that I couldn't see the tip of my speargun. Another time, I went SCUBA diving under a research ship's dock in the harbor... It was a pretty tame dive (my first in the local cold water). Had I known that we could get crabs we would have picked some up... it was amazing to see them running in all directions on the bottom of the ocean.