Archive for December, 2007

merrry Christmas, and happy football playoffs (and new year)

December 28th, 2007

This was a pretty sweet Christmas. Last year Otis was only 9 months old and a bit too young to get the concept of Santa and snowmen and reindeer and presents and tons of food that isn’t necessarily good for you but sure tastes great. This year was different, and grandma and grandpa spoiled Otis with so many presents, it was overwhelming. We ate way too much, which I’m sure is the same story with …

Hello world (you can stop looking for me now)

December 21st, 2007

wow. big wow. Its been a while, huh? Its almost Christmas…. wow. For those of you that knew that I was really ill, I’m getting better. For those of you that didn’t know I was sick, well, it was about as bad as it gets. Some kind of jungle dengue bug, like malaria, with crazy sweats where I was literally freezing and sweating my ass off at the same time. I didn’t sleep more than …

commuting to work

December 10th, 2007

I realize that I’m one of the few people who can actually say that their commute to work involves flying to another country. I like the fact that I can pack for my trip in a half hour, and usually most of that is the morning of my flight as I throw odd t-shirts and books I haven’t read into my luggage. Today was a great day to be a Charger fan, I still can’t …

giant surf in San Diego

December 6th, 2007

As I pulled up to my little perch at the La Jolla Cove yesterday morning, this was what I saw. It was double to triple overhead (watch the video from yesterday’s post). I haven’t surfed the Cove since I was a senior in high school. It was one of the most memorable surf sessions I’ve had to this day, probably because it was even bigger than it was yesterday and I was only 17. It …

surf is up

December 5th, 2007

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gearing up to hit the road

December 2nd, 2007

So I guess theres a lot to talk about these days, huh? I’ve been back and forth with this back injury thing, but its finally seemed to work itself out. I knew it was a bad one when I got out of the water from surfing. First, it was pretty good, so to get out on a day like that meant that it was serious. Then it took me like 20 minutes to get my …