Spank My Wookie

Thanksgiving gobble gobble surf. Some nice waves to be had at the Moon. Small crowd, some people without surf ettiquette. But I got my most memorable wave there to date. It wasn't that big of a wave, but I managed to stay on the face for the whole time until the front closed out on me. I haven't been able to do that at this break yet. I made it out before some more stormy weather appeared on Friday.

Today, I went out for a morning session. It seemed a lot colder than a few days ago. I was in full booties and gloves. The waves were really iffy at my local break. Some would break with shoulder, some would close out, some broke really close to shore. The crowd at 7 was minimal. I got a few fun rides, and just hung out in the lineup. The water wasn't as cold as I thought it would be. I should have sat a few peaks up to get some better waves. But there seemed to be more closeouts than anything catchable. I got a memorable ride where i kinda went up and down the face. It wasn't a big ride, but I was able to stay in the curl.

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Not much to write about. I sat north of the showers. second to the north most peak. There was mellow crowd out there. Some breaking lefts. I got a few of them. Mostly paddled diagnoally and got some long rides. I went for one where someone was in front of me, and I just ended up not getting the ride. Better to not injure someone than get up on it.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

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This is a stupid poem.

Ummm...twas fun where I sat
twas fun with no hat
i made it out with a few strokes
and no i didn't toke

some small bumps will show
a smile across my face as i glow
swing the board into position
and scratched the wate with a mission

one, two, three and four
i paddled and paddled and paddled some more
wave count up, and i have no frown
i thought to myself, nothing will let me down

i said hi to the people that i played with
and not one person had anything i wouldn't miss

the sun was bright, the water calm
what courdoury lines rolled, and i am glad to not live in a farm

with these words i write,
i take a deep breath,
for i will jouney out again, and write another night

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Friday was good. I had a blast, caught some waves, there were some closeouts, got some nice rights and lefts. Saw a buddy of mine out there. Fun, offshore, glassy.

Saturday afternoon sucked. Still no sign of a swell. I played in shorebreak. Looked like a kook.

That's about it for my surfing weekend.

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Two days, same beach, different conditions. Yesterday, the swell from the weekend was still in, so I headed out to find some of these remnants before it completely dies. Most of the beach was closing out, so I headed for a little action on the south end. The tide was really high so it shutdown some of the potential waves coming through. I got some fun rides, and shared the peak with a few others venturing out for fun. I got my first hoot for a wave, but alas, I went over the falls, since I was sitting a little deeper and just hesitated a little bit. One guy says I didn't pop up fast enough. The other guy says that if you have the balls, just stand up, cuz with that much power you don't have to paddle for it. I caught my share of right handers before calling it a day.

Today, the swell size came down some more and the beach closed out a bit more. I was tempted to paddle out to where a couple was surfing and kayaking. But I thought I might try my luck sitting at my own peak. From what I saw, it closed out about half the time, and the other half there were cool shoulders that formed. I paddled out and it was freezing cold today. I turned for the first wave and didn't have enough speed to keep going on it. The second one I got was a nice right hander that I rode for a fairly long time. I bailed on the next one and was blown out of position from the howling off shores.

A mellow older dude paddles out to where I am. I started to go left on a few more of the waves. Those were so much fun. I had a bunch of long rides where I did a little cutback and just rode it a while. I was mostly riding on the top of the wave. The board felt so stable. I was tempted to walk the board, but decided to just ride it and have fun.

I was really stoked today; both for finding my own peak and the nice lefts that I got.

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Surf, and more surf. Two days, two different places, but all good fun. Yesterday I took the day off work in honor of veterns. I ended up at LM around 12pm. It looked like a lake with the outgoing tide and impending doom with the closeouts that pounded the shore. I escaped as far south as possible and ended up by the boatdocks. Surprisingly there were some fun rides to be had. The crowd was really mellow and the waves were about knee high. I got a bunch of lefts and one right that sent me into a mine field of rocks. Luckly, I didn't hit any of them, but I did scratch up my feet while timing my paddle back out. The sun even peeked out for a brief twenty minutes. I think i need to be working on more of my trimming and more harder turns.

Today, I headed up north again. The spot was pretty mellow and the size of the waves were around shoulder high to head high. My very first ride was the most fun of the session. I somehow ended up at the right place doing all the right things; which resulted in a ride that had me smiling on the way back out to the lineup. I popped up a little further up on the board and made my turn to the left to head backside. With the adjustment, I was right in front of the curl the whole time of the ride.

Mid-way through, I caught a ride into the break zone, and was caught there for a good 4-5 wave set that pounded through. After that, I drifted over to a part of the spot which was breaking about head high on. Surprisingly, I had a smile on my face when I saw these waves. I spinned and caught a few of these. Again, I need to work on trimming backside. I need to be further up on the board, in the sweet spot. Also, I really need to get out of the habit of looking at my feet. I still do that all the time!

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SF Gate: News and Information for the San Francisco Bay Area

Bill O'Reilly is fed up with S.F.
after Tuesday's elections. The conservative Fox News talk-show host
went off, saying he wouldn't blink if terrorists obliterated the city
and, for that matter, a landmark. "You want to blow up the Coit Tower?
Go ahead," he said.

Pure idiot. Billy boy here is a pure retard. I can't put it in any other terms. I usually hate talking about politics, but this guy is a moron. He should be held to the same standards as anyone else that has made "unpatiotic" quotes. I can name a few people and groups that have been tarred and featured for their remarks against Bush. But since this ASSHOLE works for FOX news, owned by right extremists, who supports and lobbies for the current REGIME that is steering this country into oblivion, people just let his remarks go. No big controversy, no blatant voices calling for a resignation. What else does this guy need to do before getting yanked on TV? Double standards are a bitch.

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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

"A MacInTouch poster has found that certain Sony CD's also contain a smaller extra partition
for 'enhanced' content. Running one of the applications found within
this partition installs kernel extensions containing DRM software by
SunnComm. In Sony's defense you're told what is being installed within
a EULA which pops up when the program is loaded. Thankfully we all read
our EULAs completely."

I'm testing out JustBlogIt right now. The folks here have made it simple to plugin to most any blog and let you just type away. I guess I will comment on the above post?! Well, EULA's suck ass! Enuff said.

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I suck. Some days you think you will be going out and having a good time, but then when you actually go out to do something, you just plain ol suck, and everyone around you is having a great time.

Today was one of those times. I made a very dry hair paddle out and just sat and waited. Nothing much was going on. I was just waiting. Some sets pass, I am in the wrong spot, so more sucking!

I finally got a small ride about half way into my session. Then I waited some more before I can get another few. I called it quits after a little while. But today just sucked.

I need a stokey session soon!

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I decide to try out a new surf spot up past the Golden Gate. It's a mellow spot, but not so crowded so I am going to leave it nameless. The drive up was an adventure as I got lost a few times, and then had to back track until I figured out I was going in the right direction. Stupid me.

Anyways...this was one of the most mellow and fun sessions I've had in a while. Although we get there late, around 3pm. I still managed to get in a good two hours and watch the sun go down before heading home.

The rides were not too stellar. I got some long rides, then I got biffed a bunch more, including one time where I just kinda fell into the whitewash. There were other times I didn't pay attention to which direction I was supposed to go, and ended going the opposite direction. Stupid of me.

But it was still a fun time. I am thinking of going back there sometime soon.

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I finally got this blog moved off GreyMatter. There were two reasons for this. Movable Type has a lot more features. Things like RSS, trackback, Technorati pinging are all built in. It's back by MySQL right now. I have to somehow take advantage of having a database feature with my ISP right? So there you go. I don't have that many big plans for this site. But I am going to add sections so I can play around with AJAX and some RSS feed aggregation as well.

Mostly I am going to play around with geeky stuff here. I suddenly have that urge to do so. So first thing I did when I got Movable Type up was signup with Technorati and enable blog pinging.

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A few days of surfing without writing about it!I've been busy trying to migrate my blog that I haven't had time to write in this blog. But now I have some time to just jot down the surf from last week. It hasn't been a memorable week, but just a week where I got out a lot more than usual. I guess I'll start counting from last Friday.Friday lunch session:I decided to do a little working from home action. At noon time, I checked out for lunch and went for some waves. I saw a surf buddy out there. It wasn't a memorable session, but I was able to get a few waves and started to get into it, when I think I needed to go back to work. They were mostly right handers, some with sets bigger than others. The wind was blowing offshore, but the waves were a little more fickle to catch.Sunday, I decided on a morning session. I got a few fun ones, but I didn't stay long because the crowd started to arrive. The lineup was pretty crowded, so I decided to call it a day.Monday, I went for a pre work session. I actually don't really remember this session much. I don't think there was much to catch. I decided to stay on a small little shorebreak and got a few small rides. I pearled on a bunch of them. Had to cut it short. But today, I had a watch, so I kept track of time and got to work not as lateTuesday, I read that the waves were good. Another pre-work session. The beginning half of the session was good. I caught a few fun ones. Not much juice, but the rides have been longer than the other ones. Towards the end of the session, the winds turned onshore, and the chop started to come in. I don't think I got any more waves and the tide just shut the beach down.Thursday. The swell was supposed to produce 9 foot waves. But when I got to the beach, the north end was closing out and the south end was just producing infrequent peelers. I think I only got two waves. They weren't memorable at all. I think I need a stokey session. There hasn't been anything stellar to write about now.Hopefully I can get out once this weekend to get something fun. The north swell is still in right now. I want some waves.

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