I’d like to extend birthday wishes and many happy returns of the day to my dearest Mrs. Blog and apologize for that birthday many decades ago when I gave you a skateboard instead of something you really wanted — although it was a Z-Flex and is probably worth a fortune now on E-Bay.
Last week, I was really kvetching about the lack of surf just to kvetch, but King Neptune must have heard me and took mercy upon us, because it was actually pretty fun last weekend. So I guess I can take credit for it. You can thank me later.
As I have said many times before, surf conditions for ESA contests are usually icky, but we actually had pretty good weather and waves for the whole thing. I just have to figure out why I suddenly stink at longboard. Or is it that I have always stunk at longboard and the judges have just been kinder to me in the past? Either way, I have a lot of work to do to get back in the running. But that’s what makes competitive surfing so much fun. There’s always a bunch of guys happy to completely annihilate you.
Also, this week, I am absolutely horrified by what is happening in the Gulf. The ecosystem is so fragile and the creatures so delicate that they just have to be touched by that gunk to be killed. When you think of the bottlenose dolphins, birds, oyster beds and shrimp and stuff like that, it’s just a horror and my heart is bleeding for the whole coast. I want my wind farm and I want it now. We have to wean ourselves away from this madness.
As for the weekend surf forecast, there will probably be something to ride depending on your level of desperation, but my advice is to spend Mother’s Day properly engaged in Mother’s Day and save your fun pass for when you really need it. Although, if you have children, this is a great day to take them to the beach and teach them how to surf. Because if you word it correctly, you can go surfing with the kids and it falls under the category of “child care.” How clever is that?
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