People are always talking about making lists of adventurous things they'd like to accomplish during their lifetime. Here's my list, and what follows are notes about what I'm currently up to.
Added to the listJuly 9, 2007
82. | Grow a beard (while biking across Canada) |
| 83. | Do my chiro exercises each day for a year |
| 84. | Learn to kite board |
| 85. | Build a canoe |
| 86. | Learn to roll a kayak |
Cliff jumpingJuly 8, 2007
Last weekend we were in Massasauga Provincial Park with Dave & Gena and Gideon & Brenda. On the Saturday, we decided to go for a bit of an adventure since we weren't moving our campsite that day, and while we were paddling back to the campsite we stopped at a cliff that was in the 25-30 foot range. Dave and Gideon jumped without hesitation, which amazed me. And that left me, standing up there looking way down at the water thinking, how on earth do you convince your brain to do something it's convinced is completely idiotic. Well, you tell your brain to shut up, take a deep breath, and before you realize what you're about to do, you jump. Then there's that half second of terrified glory as you hang in weightlessness 25 feet above the water. Wow.
Once you start falling it takes all of a second and a half to hit the water... amazing. I got a fair amount of water up my nose as was expected, and I hit the water at a bit of an angle, but I was no worse for wear. It was amazing! I have to recommend this to anyone who hasn't done it.
Water usageJune 17, 2007
I finally got around to checking downstairs to see whether we have a water meter in our furnace room, and it turns out we do. It reads 2092.79 cubic meters. I checked it again a few hours later and it read 2092.82 cubic meters. Something that I recall hearing was that 1 cubic meter is the same as 1000 litres, so 2092.82 - 2092.79 = 30 litres. I'm going to track our water usage each day for the next couple of weeks to get an idea of what our typical water usage is.
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