Seawolves rugby season (well, pre-season) begins on Thursday... and there's snow on the ground in Seattle. Should just be the usual wet and shitty in Seattle by Thursday, but we will have the added benefit of wet, shitty, and cold.... for a NIGHT game. Hmmm... I wonder how many layers can a human conceivably wear and still survive? (Apparently the number is 227 t-shirts.) Band Collaboration In other news, when I was in Budapest I was a part of a group of about 20 or so musicians who all played together in various bands for about 10 years. Those people all dispersed to the wind more than a decade ago, but 8 of us recently reconnected via email. We are spread around - UK, EU, all parts of the USA, Sweden, Australia, etc. - but we all have some sort of musical software (usually GarageBand or Logic) and a GoogleDrive. So we have started writing new music! One guy uploads their part - say the guitar part - and each of us write a corresponding part for it: guitars, bass, keyboards, vocals, etc. We upload all of the separate parts to the GoogleDrive, and then each of us mix the bits together in our own unique way, or ask others to write a section or part that is heavier, or softer, or whatever. There are multiple guitarists, bassists, and singers, so there are always interesting different interpretations, depending on who wrote the part. So we are winding up with 2 or 3 great versions of individual songs that have no empirical "single final version"! The creative juices are flowing, and we are having a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll have something to share with Hubski soon...
Heyyyy Rugby time again. The Highlanders just finished their pre-season and they had a public training run on my club's field. It's going to be a very different team - not least because we've lost Waisake Naholo and Ben Smith as well as some stalwart forwards but there's a good young and excited feel about the squad. I have selected Seawolves as my American comp team btw, need to sort some merch!
certain terrible experiences taught me the value of Cabela's Realtree ensembles. Depending on the sale, $200 will get you a goretex jacket with fleece liner and pants that has no odor, makes no sound and will keep you warm and dry in a ten hour freezing rainstorm on top of Mount Rainier. Your friends will mock you initially, but as soon as the sky opens up you will be the envy of every dipshit wearing $2k worth of Arcteryx.
Those same friends will be laughing right back at you when you try to pack that in a rucksack and hump it cross country... That being said, next time I’m in the states I will now be going straight to a cabelas
Yeah if you try and pack a "standing still in the rain" outfit so that you can use it as your "hiking Mt. Baldy" outfit you deserve to be laughed at. The kit that allows you to be comfortable when at rest is very different from the kit that allows you to be comfortable in motion, which is my whole point.