Half-Mind Weblog

You’d of asked me yesterday afternoon, I’d have said “what hazards?” What could possibly go wrong with a pre-laid trail? Repossess Me and Leave It to Beaver and I laid two trails yesterday, Repo & Beaver for the harriettes of Desert Divas H3, me for the harriers of Pima County Traditional H3. Our idea was [...]

Like many hashers, I’m interested in our origins and history.  I read everything I can get my hands on.  When I go to interhashes, I seek out experienced hashers and ask them for their take on things.  I’ve swilled beer and talked trash with old-timers around the world, including Ian Cumming, Bill Panton, and Magic [...]

At yesterday’s Pima Independent Sunday Social Hash circle, I presided over two namings.  By way of background, when I founded the PISS Hash one of my goals was to keep it from becoming a circle-centric hash.  Short circles, minimal down-downs, no namings, BYOB.  The PISS Hash is supposed to be all about the trail and [...]

Yesterday was the 6th anniversary of the Pima Independent Sunday Social Hash House Harriers.  Pick’n’Flick and I founded the PISS in February 2003 to offer a simple family-friendly alternative to Tucson hashers. Yesterday was our 64th hash.  We meet once a month, and if you do the math you’ll see we’ve skipped a few months [...]

I scouted trail with two co-hares this morning, Her Majesty’s Ho and Satisfaction Guaranteed.  We’re haring the PISS Hash two Sundays from now.  This was our first walk-through, and it’s a good thing we did it, because a couple of places we hashed through on a similar trail in 2007 have since been fenced. Important [...]

Live hare, dead hare, you still need something to keep your flour and chalk in.  Right now there’s a lively debate over flour transportation methods on hash-l, so I thought I’d throw my two cents in. Booger's hare bag My solution is this fabric pilot’s map bag. It’s about a foot tall, six inches wide, [...]

Out with the old, in with the new! Pick’n’Flick and I went to a party last night and caught up with a lot of hash friends.  Some are now, like us, occasional hashers.  Some haven’t hashed in years.  Some still hash once or twice a week.  But once a hasher, always a hasher.  The civilians [...]

I know a lot about hashing . . . enough to know I don’t really know anything about hashing. I grew up thinking once you’ve seen three or more marks after the last check, you’re on.  That a false trail could be only three marks long before the BT.  That if you can’t see the [...]