#H20GEEKS and a broken paddle

For those of you who follow me on twitter, may have heard me talk about forming a dragon boat team of twitters.. I wanted to see if there was enough interest in Vancouver’s tech community to even go though with it. As a way to remove oneself from behind technology to interact with fellow Vancouverites that you would not meet at a tweet up or meet up and it was away for me to introduce my love and joy (the sport) to people who have always wanted to try it and or wanted to get back into the sport. And I’ve done it thanks for the lovely souls who’ve signed up to learn how to dragon boat in 8 weeks (a practice a week).

Right now #H2OGeeks is ranked 2nd in fund-raising and I’m proud of the team and all their effects. Pads on the back forever one. If you’d like to help support us you please feel free to support me or if you have more then one friend who’s on this team you can donate straight to the team instead. Tax receipts are given to those who donate $20 or more.

I might do some more Dragon Boating Intro for Vancouver techies /anyone starting next spring if anyone would be interested. Please let me know.. It is afterall my dream job to be on the water all (err most of the day) teaching people how to dragon boat and work as one team .. not a bunch of people in a big long boat.

Yesterday at #H2OGeeks practice my brother borrowed my paddle so he could and 6 others could grab the boat and paddle it back to the dock. Well, he came to the dock and was scared shit-less that I was gonna kill him for breaking it. I’m upset and mad but what more can you do? Over the years I’ve seen and heard about carbon fiber paddles breaking somewhere on the shaft and now I have to find myself another paddle and fast (the 3 semi retired paddles I own aren’t at the length I need) as I’m racing this Saturday.

Earlier in the season I thought about getting a new paddle in September when the season ends at the length I’ve been getting use to and a better T-grip.. It just sucks that carbon fiber paddles are anywhere from $200-300 bucks and its money that I just don’t have lying around to spend at the moment.

Gary Jones :: BlueFur.com | Michelle | VancityAllie |

C4AC #2 – Year 2 Recap

Comment for a Cause (c4ac) has raised $186 towards the MS Society. That’s $107 more then last years. I have a handful of posts (in draft format) that I would love to publish right now for Comment for a Cause but they might wait for later date or the next time I decide to do another comment for a cause. Personally I don’t know how some people can blog daily and or more then once a day?

I’m already thinking up which charities to pick for next year.. If you have any ideas please let me know Since next year will be year 3 of Comment for a Cause, I’ve been playing around with some ideas on how to make it bigger and better, like maybe inviting 1 or 2 guest bloggers to help out.

There were some folks, who didn’t understand and or got confused with this whole Comment for a Cause event; Which I was kind of surprised about so now I have to make so a 3 year old can understand the rules so now there will be a mini blurb about c4ac (per post). Because of those folks now, I’m debating on doing Comment for a Cause for 1 entry or update daily for half the month or keep it for the whole month. I got until March of next year to play around with this. Bleh!

Thank you for helping me donate to a great cause. Let’s hope we can find a cure.

The top supporters for this year Comment for a Cause were:

Chris with 27 comments ~ wins the free [for a year] domain from Bluefur.Com
Dez with 25 comments ~ wins the free hosting [for a year] from Sugar-Devil.Com
Caity with 21 comments ~ wins the sock monkey that’s made by a local non profit company.

My question is to you, would you be interesting in doing your own Comment for a Cause or helping out with mine?

Comment for a Cause will be back in full swing in April 2010.

Caity | Aidan | Dez | Sean | Michelle | Lissy | Chris | Lee Brookes | Katy | VancityAllie |