Irritating fucking day.  Thought I was —>|  |<— this close to rolling my Fujita (So did Rob).   Alas I seem to have deteriorated.  Rob said I was doing the component steps better than I did the first day, but somehow when I was upside-down underwater syncing them all together wasn’t coming together. I managed one roll only.  I don’t want to leave here not learning how to have rolled properly, so I booked another three-hour session tomorrow. He is going to teach in a different pattern tomorrow, pedagogically, and I am going to watch a video I have for rolling, and hopefully it will all click tomorrow.

I paddled his fiberglass Impex sea kayak. It’s a lot more lively than my boat and I can lock myself in tighter. One thing I’m going to do when I get back to Singapore is put some padding to tighten up my interior so that I get more positive connection to the boat.

Tonight Lee is bringing a colleague back for dinner.  I’m going to make a spinach risotto.  Starter will be some combination of guacomole (I have a lot of avocados), asparagus wrapped in Italina prosciutto, or melon and prosciutto. Or all of it, I don’t know.  Desert will be a shortbread pastry with some mango and custard I think.

The ISP I am using here is a piece of shit. It seems to block nearly every port I try to use. Even my flickr and picasa uploading tools are being firewalled.  Irritating, but I am tired and not in the mood to get into the router and make it behave.

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