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I'm in a hotel room in Seattle and I'm looking out on a little shipping canal and this is just by total

coincidence or maybe by serendipity that my hotel room I'm sitting in looks out on this

little body of water where I used to have a

boat moored.

It was a boat that I bought because I got into this phase, I don't know, five or six years ago,

where I decided that the thing that was going to make me happy was having an old wooden boat that I could, you know, sand down and re-varnish and take out on the water and essentially be a different

version of myself when I was on the boat. At the time I thought if I just have

this certain kind of old criss-craft wood boat, I will drive it around Lake Union in Seattle,

I will finally feel calm and at peace.

Now the problem with that boat is that it costs a lot to maintain and the other

thing was I was really bad at driving the boat like it's kind of hard like every

time I took it out it was a real danger of me like crashing it or like sinking it somehow

...