Just an update

Yesterday, my friends and I were going to have an intervention for our other friend. It's not about drugs or alcohol; it's about his punctuality when we play Dungeons and Dragons. Yeah, I don't know if I've said this before, but I play Dungeons and Dragons. (I think I must have at some point.)

If you know about Dungeons and Dragons, then you already know what a DM is and his/her role in the game. If you don't know, then imagine the DM as being the referee and narrator of the story, and everyone else is a character in the story. Anyway, so our other friend, the one for whom we were having the intervention, was our DM whenever we would play, but unfortunately, he is one of the flakiest people I have ever met. Possibly the flakiest.

In the end, nothing happened. The guy didn't show up at the appointed time. After an hour of waiting, everyone agreed to call it a night. I don't know if it's the end or the beginning of things.


On Sunday, I went whale watching with my immediate family and my aunt's family. We went down to Newport, a really wealthy beach city. The boat couldn't have been going faster than twenty-five or thirty miles per hour, but it was still so windy and icy out on the ocean. The sun was out between the clouds only for a few minutes in the two and a half hours we were on the boat. At one point, it rained for fifteen minutes.

The ocean is so big, so entirely, uninterruptedly big. All I could think about was how the Pilgrims and early settlers from Europe could travel across the ocean in huge wooden boats, and that even only after an hour, I started to feel sea sick. We saw two gray whales, a mother and her newborn. We followed them for an hour. There was this one boat that got too close to the mother and newborn and scared them into changing course, so our captain sped up to them and blocked them from moving any closer to the whales. Then that boat sped off toward the beach, and everyone on our boat cheered. There was also a rainbow over the ocean after it had stopped raining.