Little forward motion

I know better than to let myself begin the day with WCOB stuff! I've been working on the "sad story of fun at work" section of the Barcelona irony chapter in the back of my mind, and it just hasn't bubbled up enough to take over other tasks. I really need to force myself to work on it-- that's the only way it will get done.

Today, however, I avoided this task once more by tacking the AACSB Tables. Finally -- at 2:30 PM -- they were in relatively good shape. Good enough to eamail to Steve before we set out for a sail.

The new "Orr flag" suggested a reasonable breeze, and even though my intuition said it was not as good as it looked, we set out because we haven't been sailing in several days. Once beyomd the anchorage, we discovered that the breeze was indeed fickle and the flood tide was strong (in an adverse direction to the wind.) At one point Jack started the engine -- sacrilege! A few minutes later he realized what he had done -- violated one of our basic philosophies as "raggies". So he turned it off and we enjoyed several short tacks close to the shore to avoid the current before a broad reach back to the mooring. Not one of our better sails!

Now I must force myself to complete may part of the discussion of last year's progress towards meeting our strategic goals so I can dup it back on Steve's desk before he goes on vacation on Tuesday.