Garrett M. Vonk

I wanted to hold off on the summary of the weekend until I had pictures to show, because, well, that’s polite of me.

Sunday, Heather and I went rafting in Tennessee with some friends, on the Ocoee.

This picture has the bonus optical illusion that I am much bigger than I am. Heather’s life jacket is much bigger than mine, a fact I didn’t even realize until now. This makes me look really big. The helmet, too.

Once we got going, this was pretty much our view for the whole two hours or so that we were on the river.

Our guide,
Mean Gene,
was interesting, to say the least. I can’t say he always steered us down the correct line through a given patch of whitewater, but he was pretty funny and laid back. I think Heather enjoyed the trip as well. I mean, when Mean Gene hit a rapid the wrong way, dumping 6 of the boat’s 8 occupants into the churning Class IV water, she seemed totally ok 1/4 mile down the river when the boat that picked her up and the boat that picked me up met.

The views in the Smoky Mountains are incredible.

Monday, Frank () was willing to share the wealth and invited me to the Ben Folds/Tori Amos concert at Chastain. Chastain is a better venue than I had previously thought, complete with a Starbucks and pretty good-sounding acoustics.

Good music, good times.

I am now becoming even more consumed with the job-search thing. There are several leads that I am working on right now, though, so hopefully next week is the week.

I cooked up a links page, mostly for myself, but if anyone wants to know the source of much of my craziness, it’s daily visiting most of these sites.