Yesterday was pretty good, work wise I got stuff done which will hopefully get me moving to the next stage of my project I'm working on. We headed off to do our Dragon boat challenge from work at around 16:00 and headed down to the docks. On the whole, it was a great experience - we all got together and as a team really made a great day of it. Their was a lot of shouting, cheering and general over the top enthusiasm as at almost every milestone we made a concerted effort to be heard and enjoy ourselves. We did remarkably well, coming in 3rd overall out of usual Dragon boaters - we were a bunch over overweight developer!
Unusually we rowed quite well, synchronised our strokes into and against the water with good precision. Our team was named Yakuza, which was figured to be oriental enough of a name. We were sponsored by our company, App-DNA which I think we did proud.
We also capsized, straight after powering through a win during our heats which was an experience. I know of at least phone which is now and ex-phone. We swam back, cheered and pretty much made a thing of it which was great.
We looked sorta distinct with a bit of red face painted App-DNA red/orange in American football stripes under our eyes. I managed a very modest 2 beers and considering that I'm cutting back that's good.
The charity was called Back up, in support of helping those who've had debilitating, paralysingly back problems get back up. At the end, one of the affected members of the trust told of her harrowing experience encountering a largely unknown condition that suddenly without warning caused her to collapse in her apartment and never let her walk again. Very eye opening because that sort of thing could happen to me, you or anyone and just like that, your life changes dramatically. very scary but she's going sky diving this weekend and told us how she's getting back up - which was inspirational.
Bit tired this morning but that's to be expected I suppose and there will be a few jaded faces in the office today.
Unusually we rowed quite well, synchronised our strokes into and against the water with good precision. Our team was named Yakuza, which was figured to be oriental enough of a name. We were sponsored by our company, App-DNA which I think we did proud.
We also capsized, straight after powering through a win during our heats which was an experience. I know of at least phone which is now and ex-phone. We swam back, cheered and pretty much made a thing of it which was great.
We looked sorta distinct with a bit of red face painted App-DNA red/orange in American football stripes under our eyes. I managed a very modest 2 beers and considering that I'm cutting back that's good.
The charity was called Back up, in support of helping those who've had debilitating, paralysingly back problems get back up. At the end, one of the affected members of the trust told of her harrowing experience encountering a largely unknown condition that suddenly without warning caused her to collapse in her apartment and never let her walk again. Very eye opening because that sort of thing could happen to me, you or anyone and just like that, your life changes dramatically. very scary but she's going sky diving this weekend and told us how she's getting back up - which was inspirational.
Bit tired this morning but that's to be expected I suppose and there will be a few jaded faces in the office today.