Two weeks ago I went camping with Shad. It wasn't suppose to be a romantic getaway, but nobody else was able to make it. Most of the time we played scrabble and kayak and swam in the lake. I was practicing for the Portland sprint triathlon, but I'm not doing it. Swimming 750m non stop in a high current river (the Willamette) is just way too hard. I need at least one year of swim training. I can't imagine the olympic length which is 1 mile, 1000m. Swimming in the river is like swimming blind folded. I did a test swim and I started veering off into the middle of the river where the cruise boat goes through. That was bad. Though the river didn't smell half as horrible everyone warned me about. None of those people have swam in a city river before. I also started collecting old illustrative studies of botanical organisms. They were the original inspirations for my wood paintings. Speaking of which, I did few more paintings. I plan to sell them at APE con.
I need a vacation. I might go to Holland and Denmark next spring. That's in the plan... I'm just worried about my work visa. The Bush Admin is making this whole work visa a huge mess. Please, Obama, please win the election. We Canadians love USA, me love very long time.
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