The Coldest Winter I Spent Was a Spring WSA Contest in Huntington Beach

We spent Sunday at a cold and windy Huntington Beach. The water was 57 and the wind was constant at 20 knots. I don't know what knots means or how to spell it but it was windy and cold.

Lucas made it through three rounds into to the Reprocharge Final and came in 4th. He missed the final by .8%. But it was a great time we spent the night and went to a fancy dinner on Saturday night. Of course he wanted one of those shiny trophy's but the kids who surf at these contests are budding pro surfers.

Anyway the 'Coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco' is not a Mark Twain quote.

Not me dude

It sounds like him and everything but his closest line was about New England "If you don't like the weather wait a few minutes"

Now, I tell you of holding close my new wetsuit, like a long lost love.

Here I am in line like a White Trash Warrior waiting to stampede the Walmart security guard.

The line started about 9am for Surfride to open this morning. They had a 20% off Wetsuit sale today only. There were about 20 other people in line. There was a kid in front of me who was in high school waiting for his pyscho 2 wetsuit like me. He had been saving for 6 months which was pretty forward thinking for a 10th grader.


Well I was just as stoked as the kid next to me. I quickly took it home and tried it on again, pet it, looked at it and took this picture of it: Oh yea


"Life is too short to have a bad wetsuit" is was Bob Wise of Wise Surfboards in San Francisco told me when I was on my Winter Break from San Diego State back in 1980. I just received my student loan for $2500 and Bob wanted about a hundred of it...here is the math to convert the money in real dollars today:

$2500 x ((1980 bad music - new thrusters on the market) + (Beer money - price of Olympia Beer(B=Olympia))/ College + Tuition $250 per semester (no kidding) (C=Fun) x future chance of graduation - job at Safeway(Future F= better get employed when graduate)) + Plus real world needs (beer money $27, Food Semester Card $75, new board $190., new wetsuit, $100) + Responsibilities (R=0) Total real dollars today =$1,764,009.03

Well I was rich at the time of course and Bob was right Life is too short for a bad wetsuit. Thank you Mary, Nick, Christie and Mary.