{"id":6664,"date":"2014-04-29T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T03:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2015-09-30T13:20:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:20:34","slug":"carry-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2014\/04\/29\/carry-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Carry On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a riveting recap of the life of Ryan over the past two months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the end of February \/ beginning of March I made a quick pilgrimage up to the Bay Area to see Aaron and the folks.  Good times were had as always, with much ping pong, the Napa Valley regional <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornhole\">cornhole<\/a> championships (which I officially lost, although there were some questionable circumstances), delicious prawn tacos, and a chance to enjoy Aaron&#8217;s new casa in Livermore.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier this month Audrey, her LA Times and fellow-Alto friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marthaGroves\">Martha<\/a>, Meghen (another Alto), and I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenmary.com\/\">Queen Mary<\/a> in Long Beach for a performance by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chchchoir.org\/\">Christ Church Cathedral Choir<\/a>.  I thought the music was OK, but getting to see it on a historic 1930s passenger liner was pretty awesome.  Before the show started I had an hour to roam around, re-enacting scenes from Titanic, although sadly the bow was roped off so I had to forgo &#8220;I&#8217;m the king of the world!&#8221; and instead settle for &#8220;You jump, I jump&#8221; at the stern, and &#8220;Full speed ahead Mr. Murdoch&#8221; in the bridge.  The Queen Mary is another addition to the list of good things about LA&trade;.<\/li>\n<li>In medical news, after more than two years of waiting for Obamacare&#8217;s rules against declining coverage due to pre-existing conditions, I finally switched insurance and visited an actual sports medicine doctor at UCLA.  Two weeks later I was inside of an MRI medicine-tube-spaceship-time-machine getting 3-D pictures of the inside of my knee taken; we <i>totally<\/i> live in the future.  I&#8217;m meeting a physical therapist this weekend and have a follow-up with the doctor in a couple of weeks, so hopefully soon it will be clear what exactly causes my knee to throw a tantrum and swell up to impressive size whenever I try to run, and with luck I&#8217;ll be able to resume the one sport I&#8217;m good at again some time in the near future.  I know it&#8217;s a touchy issue with some people, but for a self-employed person like myself Obamacare has proven to be a massive, massive improvement over the former system.<\/li>\n<li>In other news Audrey and I continue planning the <a href=\"\/journal\/2014\/03\/31\/adventure\/\">grand adventure<\/a> for this July-October; more details will likely follow in the next journal entry.<\/li>\n<li>Last of all, we&#8217;ve now lived a mile from the Marina for over two years, and this past weekend we <i>finally<\/i> went sailing.  Audrey&#8217;s friend has a decent-sized boat and invited us to join him, his wife, and their friend for a short afternoon on the water, which was a great way to spend a few hours.  At one point he told me to take the wheel and just drive around the Marina for a bit, either not realizing or not caring that nearly all of my boat navigating experience was done holding a paddle.  Luckily, despite some tight turns and various individuals in kayaks or other rentals criss-crossing all over the place with no realization that a novice captain was doing his best to avoid running them down, everyone emerged alive and well.  After Adam again took over we raised the sail for a short jaunt outside of the breakwall to enjoy some decent-sized surf and the company of dolphins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/marina-del-rey-im-sailing.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan sailing in Marina del Rey\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" class=\"img-main\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">I dominated at sailing straight, but turns in the tight confines of the Marina were terrifying.  Photo by Audrey.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a riveting recap of the life of Ryan over the past two months: At the end of February \/ beginning of March I made a quick pilgrimage up to the Bay Area to see Aaron and the folks. Good times were had as always, with much ping pong, the Napa Valley regional cornhole championships &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2014\/04\/29\/carry-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carry On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,28,29],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-family","tag-los-angeles","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}