This weekend

The housebuying frenzy has died down. I want to buy a place, but the more I think about it, the less affordable it becomes. I don't want to move to San Bruno or Emeryville either. There's something about the city that keeps me here. I mean, who wants to spend all day in the car when you're paying almost 2Gs for mortgage? I don't. Of course if I'm living in SF, I'll have to consider paying 3Gs for mortgage, which really is like buying that uber expensive black Prada purse which no one really needs.- especially since you can buy the knock off for about $45.

Instead of househunting, I went sailing. I can always sail my worries away. I entertained thoughts of buying a boat and living in it. Might not be a bad idea. I mean, you can get a pretty awesome live-aboard for about 100G. The best part about owning a boat, you can always take it on vacation to Hawaii and back!

The winds were howling on Saturday, but it made it all the more spectacular. The bay has these weird microclimates. From Sausalito, you couldn't even make out the city at all because it was shrouded in fog. And yet, the winds were crazy- we had some chop and white caps just around Hurricane Gulch and the entrance of Racoon Straits. I think the San Francisco YC or St Francis YC had to move their races onto the other side of the shipping channel because you couldn't see a thing closer to the SF side. I've always been in awe of some of these racers- I mean, you have to be pretty good at sailing to race right? At least know who has right of way etc. But on Saturday, this one boat nearly ran into us. We had stand on status (right of way) because we were on a starboard tack (always starboard over port). I kept my boat on course and the other boat was supposed to turn away. We missed them by about one boat length, and we yelled to the other boat that we had stand on status and they should know that. The skipper sheepishly said, she had no where else to go. That was totally retarded. They saw us at least 10 boat lengths away and they had time to turn away, but they didn't. I was a little shaken up by the near accident, but at the same time felt a lot better about my sailing understanding. And were I not female myself, I would have said something along the lines of female drivers being stupid.