hola world its all sunny and nice

High five. The wind may be onshore and the swell may have dropped, but I just had one hell of a good time surfing my 9'6 Witch's Rock longboard on the incoming tide in front of the hotel. These reform little lefts were coming in and giving out some fun little rides. There was hardly anybody out, which has been the case with this off wind but still the waves have been super fun. The sun has been blasting. I've been doing a lot of painting upstairs in my apartment above the bar, really sweating a ton with it being so hot and no AC in the room I was painting. It was painted blue before, which made it feel like I was living in a submarine, so now I've got a couple coats of white up and its happy and nice. I'm cleaning things up little by little each day, so that by the time I leave next Friday it will be ready for the family to come back down with me. We got Happy's birth certificate and now we're waiting for his passport. Hopefully we can have Otis' birthday party down here if all goes well, which is on March 29. I cleaned up Catalina's old office, which is now part of the apartment. I put a spare bed in there as I always have friends coming down, and I can never guarantee that there will be a hotel room at the camp as its always booking up. I was showing Rafa how to do the surf report last night at my desk, and some drunk guy cruises out of the Skybox. I guess I hadn't noticed him come in and he drunkenly found his way to the bathroom without me seeing. I left the door slightly open... then as he was creeping out I spotted him, disgusted that he could have been sitting on my toilet seat. I guess thats what you get when you live above the bar. Tico Hendrix gives me messed up dreams, but still its funny as hell to fall asleep listening to him. We started clearing the area to start construction on our new rancho. This one is going to be 7 meters by 10 meters, so plenty big so that we can have our dance classes, yoga, fitness programs/surf therapy, we can rent the space out for events like weddings and private parties. We get requests all of the time, so finally I get my act together. The Sand Bar is going to open a week from today, I'm getting pretty excited about that. I found more of those large blocks, the ones we have in front of the restaurant/bar and hotel/pool area, so we can continue the boardwalk past the rancho we're about to build, past the bar, and a little bridge and pathway to the public parking area. The blocks are actually cut rock, which is crazy. They are up in Nicaragua, so we have to send a large truck, transport hundreds of them (each one weighs an incredible amount), pass them through the border and pay the duties, drop them off and install them on the surf camp property. It should all happen this next week which is pretty exciting. It reminds me of the first Revenge Of The Nerds, when they found that old house and all worked to fix it up, all playing to that horrible 80s music. Speaking of music, check out this band the Black Keys, its a two man band, only a guitarist and a drummer. They have such a rocking sound, its great.
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