Eric typed:

Oci-One Kanubi wrote:

Eric typed:

I still read everything you two post. Last question I posted, I got
flamed by a troll. Made me gun shy.

However, one of these days I'm going to go paddling with Mike. Single
barrel bourbon and I know he's a coffee drinker. What else can you ask for?

Eric

PS Mike - the baby is now 14 weeks and likes getting her face wet in the
water. After January we'll start with the swimming classes. Getting
ready for the family paddle!

Mike McCrea wrote:

Oci-One,

I e-mailed him as well, but also posted the answer here.

Once I have a few minutes to spare I'll write up a trip report from
the past weekend's Gentlemen's Paddling Weekend. We got out on a bunch
of eastern shore cypress swamp creeks at flood, and paddled under the
lunar eclipse as well.

The Gent's trip - Good weekend, good paddling, good friends, good
single barrel bourbon.


If virginia.edu is UVA, I pass through Charlottesville once a month in
each direction between Maryland and North Carolina -- usually leaning
hard on the gas pedal! Weekend of the hurricane I paddled with Regina
O'Donnell, whose husband is on the UVA med school faculty, on a couple
of Charlottesville-area streams.

Mike's an entertaining guy to boat with (don't tell him I said so,
though), so don't miss the chance when you get it.

It is indeed UVA. I have the lavish post of Assistant Director of
Outdoor Recreation here at UVA. If you roll through in the morning, let
me know and I can arrange a breakfast rendezvous.

I spent the hurricane weekend trying to keep the wife and baby happy in
a house that had no water or electricity. However, once we got a couple
of 5 gallon jugs full of water, it was pretty much like camping out in
your own house. I drove over the Rivanna on my way to work on Monday
and was thinking about all the water I was missing.

Eric

OK, I think I got you pegged now. Did you post on the MCC Paddle
Prattle looking for advice on starting a boating program, or bringing
a swif****er safety instructor to Charlottesville for a weekend, or
sumpin' like that? Or am I just remembering enquiries you have made
here on r.b.p?

Yer job sounds like a more formalized version of what is called, on
many campuses, faculty adviser to the Outting Club.

-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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OK, I think I got you pegged now. Did you post on the MCC Paddle
Prattle looking for advice on starting a boating program, or bringing
a swif****er safety instructor to Charlottesville for a weekend, or
sumpin' like that? Or am I just remembering enquiries you have made
here on r.b.p?

Yer job sounds like a more formalized version of what is called, on
many campuses, faculty adviser to the Outting Club.

-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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================================================== ====================
Richard Hopley Winston-Salem, NC, USA
rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net
Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll
rhopley[at]wfubmc[dot]edu
OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters
================================================== ====================

Although I have posted several questions, I think the one I got flamed
for was about correlating river levels, CFS and difficulties of rivers
and trying to explain it to non-boaters / administrators. I think
someone suspected I had an accident in the program and was looking for
something to CMA. I was looking for a canoe instructor at one point as
well but I have mostly just posted on rbp.

As for my job, UVa has an outdoor recreation program which is a part of
the Intramural-Recreational Sports Department (who also maintains the
fitness facilities, runs the flag football leagues, etc.) and that's the
one that pays my salary. UVa also has a student-run Outdoors Club which
is completely separate. UVa has contracted independent organizations
which receive student funding but are not technically part of the
university. But since our program is a part of the university, we enjoy
all the privileges that entails such as liability coverage, monetary
resources, etc. Overall, it's not a bad job and gives me a reason to go
paddling on a work day every now and again instead of having to take the
day off. You know the bumper sticker that says "a bad day on the river
is better than a good day in the office" - well, for me sometimes the
day on the river IS the day in the office.

Eric