If it swells. . . Ride it!

The surf has been nothing short of excellent during the past week. Since Dec. 20, the surf has really been nothing short of epic. Tuesday we had some solid surf in the 3 to 5 ft range, not big, but clean shape. I got a few good tube rides on Tuesday. The following Wednesday morning before work, the waves were bigger, about 8ft with 10 to 12 ft faces off the jetties in Newport. I had a lot of fun on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before work. A big swell from Hawaii wrapped around the islands and hit Newport, which was pretty much the only place holding the swell with any decent shape. HB was like a river and impossible to paddle out. Seal beach was a notable exception as it was breaking 20ft on the south side. We haven't had this much swell this big for a long time, but it has been fairly consistent. the problem though when there is a high surf advisory is all the koooks come out and want to try and catch the waves. It was crowded and for the most part , a lot of these guys don't really belong out there when the waves are so big. It realy makes it harder because now you are dealing with those who don't know the right etiquette, and also, the lineup turns into a parking lot, with speed bumps, so you have to watch out for everyone who may be in the way. Just goes with the territory of surfing in such a crowded place like Newport can be. I sometimes wish it would be a bit more radical so fewer surfers would try to paddle out, but 8 to 10ft is pretty much my max too, then I wouldn't be out to catch the waves either. Did a few Dawn Patrols to reduce the crowd situation, caught a few decent size mackers in the process. overall a good start to the winter surf sessions. I just wish it wasn't so damn cold. I'd like to stay slotted in a warm tube all the time, but that just ain't gonna happen. Except perhaps in the bedroom.

Dream: Internet overload

This one is a good one. I was at my high school reunion, and some of the people there began to roast me due to some of the writings I had written that were on the Internet. It was really weird seeing my classmates slam me for opinions on such things as Microsoft antitrust issues and other really meaningless things, because they were just that, opinions. I took it all in stride, when I said "I am on the Internet" I really meant it. but an ex came up to me and said I can't believe you, trying to negotiate a settlement on the Internet. A settlement for what? It was really a scary one, because people kept lining up to take shots at me, but I was really unfazed by it all because they were all, except the settlement one, referring to opinions, written clearly by someone who is opinionated. And then I woke up. After I woke up, I tried to get back to sleep to get back into the dream to fight back, but I just couldn't get back to sleep. The only other time I tried to get back to sleep after waking up in the middle of a dream, was when I was having sex with a woman in my dream, and everything was interupted by waking up. Those episodes have occurred several times over the course of the last 20 years, and let me tell you, those are the worse kinds to have interupted.