Boat at Sea... Enduro Challenge

by Phil

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Started writing this on the laptop next to my seat at table 15 seat 2 at the bellagio this week during the enduro challenge.... at hour 87!!!!

i liken the whole experience to that of the man in his sinking vessel... as he scurries about w his bilge pumps he works furiously to save his craft... he works quickly and with purpose...

the boat will sink and he knows this...  he has his life raft at the ready... he is always saved... and yet he tries to save his boat though he knows it is forever lost

so he races against time.... does everything right.... and the boat sinks..

so why did the sailor go thru the motions?? because he was honoring the moment that was upon him...

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that was this weekend to me... starting something that i knew had an end... but somewhere in there i saw that the end was not at a number... 80 or 90, but at the point where the boat's
time was over....

as i type these very words we are at hour 87 hrs and 45 mins... 90 for sure from here i will get..... and what the heck....100 seems pure.. but my team is becoming thinner as they must leave.. run this op solo... yes i think i can.. it is all good...
less efficient i will be.. and that is cool...the boat will be sinking--and i will be running the bilge pumps.. in the same way that i will soon meet the bed and this ride will be over.. the boat and his owner are also aware that there is no saving their boat.. it must sink

but the symphony of dance to do what we can do ... that is the ride that is the heart of it all.. and on this weekend i got a LOT of that... wow.. so exiciting..

timing meals with balet precision.. getting counsel on diet and yoga... team work at every corner... putting out fires to save the house seemed to be the order of the day..... arranging my outfits on the spare bed w postit notes for the team to keep me in clean..

soon it was most of the fresh tshirts and undergarments in a bag w me at the table... so little time.. (5 mins a break... go to the room? it was 4 mins for the walk alone!)

a well oiled machine (symphony u could say) with many moving parts.,.. all the while the sleep was catching up with me just as the sea will soon engulf the man's boat...

5 mins on the stop watch... sprinting to the bathroom out thru the poker room making good time (- must do so much upkeep in so little time.....)

hurry hurry play play.. make new numbers while passing time..... make a chart.. log ur wins.. record everything.. why not?.. maybe that is the trick in fact..the trick to beating the sleep thing... treat it like .. well make him a joker.. and then pull him from a hat..take this joker and pull him from a hat... make him ur play mate... in the game..

accept the rules.. and then have fun with it.... his job.. .well, he he tries to get u to stop and rest.. but ur job.. and this is the part u have to be strong and pull a jedi trick sort of on your own brain.... have ur brain think that it is thru activity of the brain and movement of the body that there is rest... (not to relax and easy into a chari.. but constant movement... ) make urself think that is the relax stuff.....u must dodge and weave the joker with great passion... taking the matter of cumfort.... and pushing him to the side.. that is the trick.. anytime cumfort is near... steer away... 
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such a frenzy of things to compress into the short bill of time....

so many other topics i thought about during my stint with the sleep joker.... nothing do occupy ur mind... create something and make it impt...

so much other stuff... hopefully i will get to it later.. but this is me now... fighting the sleep and working the fun... it is wild ... and fun... next hand.. yes.. typing at the table... need constant brain use now...

it is hour 89 min 33.. and as i type.. i see a break.. i now go shower and yoga... and stretch.. and play the game w this joker some more...

thanks so much for all ur support.. currently in the wildest ride in a LONG LONG TIME>...

This is some of how i am feeling now... during the enduro challenge...

and that is why (in part) i am writing this blog .... always dodging the sleep joker...

legs fading... back hurts.. off to a shower... trick me into thinking i am fresh..

later for now...

sched is tight...

degen for life!