Trip Report: Middle Clackamas

Susan and I floated "Fish to Bob's Hole" today. It's a short class III section. When I ran this section with Carol and Joel during the Riverfest the water was much higher and the run was mostly washed out. Today it was well developed with lots of waves and holes and funny water too. I did two combat rolls right away, one after I got a nearly vertical stern squirt at the putin, and another when I was rushing to offer a bow to Susan when she flipped, and got flipped during my rescue attempt. I rolled up to find her wet exiting, but luckily the shore was not far and we were able to get her out quickly.

I felt shaky in the boat the whole time. Just not stable, not in touch, not secure. The water kept tossing me around and I did not have any confidence in my ability to just plain old stay right side up. My combat rolls were working, but they weren't strong. I'm not the boater I used to be. Bob's Hole looked just fine but I had no desire to go in there.

New Research on Homosexuality

( a few notes on something I ran across in The Week )

Liver p450 Pathways: Detox stuff

Nice table on DRUG INTERACTIONS here:
http://medicine.iupui.edu/flockhart/table.htm
( a little liver review )

Seven Billion People

We're slated to hit 7,000,000,000 in 2012.
We hit 6 billion in 1999.
Thirteen years to add a billion.
We hit 1 billion in 1800.
In 1930, 130 years later, we made 2 billion.
(data from the AP)
So between 1930 and 1999 we added 4 billion in 69 years.

Obama's going downhill

He's supporting that crappy FISA bill ("to build cred with the security community") and he has decided that he's not above the rest when it comes to taking money....never mind spending limits.....the pundits say he'll do "what it takes to get elected". I still wish for a person who could get elected based on principles instead of on their willingness to bend over. I still pray that he has integrity but he is showing signs of decay.

On Obama's vote, and a telling picture:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/senate-approv-1.html?cid=121701404#comment-121701404

( Hillary voted against the FISA Amendment Act! Does modern politics require that candidates vote themselves more power at every opportunity, and deny powers to other with the same ruthlessness? Text from article behind this cut. )

PTSD notes

( notes )