"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3FC2D015.9000809@hotmail.com...
> Moving with the hamster would be a bitch.

Tell me about it. We already killed off one of those buggers when we moved
down here.

> I'm planning on moving to a
> house in the next 6 months or so (same city), and hamsterless though I
> am the logistics are going to be a pain.

We hired a moving company, but even so there was a huge amount of work to
do. It didn't help that just as we were moving I had an enormous job pending
with looming deadline. Carrying boxes up stairs is no fun on 2 hours of
sleep (very few things are, except sleeping).

> Its pretty easy and a lot of fun. Try a single hand skiff. For about
> 100-250,000 yen you can pick up a used boat and learn a shitload more
> about sailing sail trim and weight distribution than you can in a large
> one, cheaper than sailing schools too. One man catamarans are fun too.

There's a resort hotel just down the hill from us
(http://www.alivila.co.jp/), and they rent catamarans. I'm thinking of
starting out by just going down there and renting one instructor-tsuki for a
couple hours, then trying  a few solo runs.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom