Archive for September, 2007

down in the dumps

September 28th, 2007

literally, I was down in the dumps. It sucks there, it smells just awful. The ground vibrates as these giant steam-roller with spikes-for-tires machines scrape all kinds of junk into piles. I forgot how much of an expanse the SD landfill was, I hadn’t been there since I was a kid.It is hard to fathom how much trash is under those mountains of earth. One tends to forget the impact us humans have on planet …

back in the action

September 27th, 2007

Yo check out my dad trying to stuff something into that fridge. That fridge is sponsored by Costco, let me tell you. The best part is that most times when I go over there, I search and search and I usually find a hidden beer in the back of one of the shelves, behind the backup mustard. I don’t remember the fridge ever having the good shit it has these days, back then I was …

monday can be a fun day

September 24th, 2007

I sat around all weekend thinking about how much shit I had to do this morning. I got out of bed at 6:20am, now something that isn’t really that hard to do anymore, made coffee and checked the surf. I drove to the cliffs, then to the pier, then back home and to some emails. Then around a quarter to nine I decided it was something that had to happen, I grabbed the wife and …

family guy star wars episode

September 23rd, 2007

So here I am, watching Rivers throw a great game and watching Favre throw an even better one, and some bad luck, and the Chargers are now 1-2. What a shame. Here you see my pops, equally bummed but still cheering for the Chargers after 46 years of being a Charger fan. Check the retro WRSC t-shirt circa 2001. It didn’t help that the Padres lost the third game in a row to the Rockies, …

the Chargers are 1-2

September 23rd, 2007

this sucks.

Hi my name is Joe

September 22nd, 2007

The driver’s window in my car doesn’t go up, and it pissed down rain last night, so that was fun. I’ve got a ghetto trash bag on it now. It doesn’t really matter as I’ve got some serious issues to deal with to get my rig drivable for the coming winter. San Diego has already started to get cold and I can’t imagine driving my family including a newborn baby in a freezing car with …

onshore and cold

September 20th, 2007

I’ve gotten myself into a nice little routine where I wake up at the crack of dawn, get a couple of hours of work in before the family wakes up, then head down to the beach mid-morning for a surf. I got to Scripps yesterday around 930am, just as the wind did as well. I hadn’t watched the news for San Diego so I didn’t know that we were about to get hit with some …

Where the hell have I been?

September 17th, 2007

I hate football today. I really do. I’m bummed the Chargers lost yesterday, but its a feeling you learn to live with when you grow up as a Charger fan. At least we didn’t lose to the Cardinals or something… Today has been the full force of a Monday. My mind is spinning and in a knot. At least I got a lot of things done. I was too tired to surf as I surfed …

Otis plays the blues

September 5th, 2007

I just think it is hilarious that my son loves music as much as he does. I mean, its great. I love to play music, he loves to play music, I like to listen to music, he does too but while dancing. Its great. I just shot some video of him playing the harmonica, it cracks me up. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438uBO_nzIk] I haven’t left the house much except to go surfing, I’ve surfed four times in the …

Sometimes losing money is a good business decision

September 2nd, 2007

Sometimes losing money is a good business decision. That sounds crazy, right? It sounds crazy when I read it out loud to myself, yet I know that there are times when this is correct. In fact, I haven’t written a business blog for over two weeks now, and the reason why is that I was busy losing money. On last Friday, two days ago, I lost $45,000. Am I in total depression? no. Am I …