Beacons Summer

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. H Keller


Erik giving Logan the start of his adventure.
Flight

Taking off late .

I decided I want to be my son Logan. Just finishing 6th grade he is starting to surf well. He has been able to spend time surfing with Erik Baldwin giving him some insight to the art of riding the ocean.

Surfing v Work Paradox....'Surfing is not a Crime'

Go ahead get a wave, you will feel better.

On finishing the fiscal year last Monday, I was happy to see that my excel spreadsheet did not produce any evil red numbers at the at sum total. This gives me hope that surfing is helpful to my career.

I am not a golfer. Having a long career as a sales person in various degrees of import I found myself golfing early on. Now I am not against golf or golfers as it seems it gives people somewhat of the same buzz we get surfing. But, I just couldn't get into it. I tried.....lessons, golf tournaments, golf clubs and all.
I get it that golf is the business sport and all, but around hole 7 I long for the water. Sales people talk big game about closing huge deals on the golf course and I know if there is a will there is a way. In the beer business we would talk about closing big deals in a bar on a napkin. It was never the case. In the end it was planning, time and some luck in the big deals.

Around disaster time last year, I talked with Bob Rogers a guy much smarter than me who has been building his business for a while.

Me.. "Bob what are you doing to get through this mess"

Bob.. "Making more calls on customers most likely to buy"

There it is. I didn't stop surfing to work 20 hours a day, I just tried to make more calls on customers who were likely to buy.

Now I can go into the summer looking for long period south swells and warmer water without feeling that I am committing surf felonies.

Open Season or Season Opener

Summer is knocking on the door. Although the air is 'May Gray' cool the water is warm. Here are the Watermen enjoying the first part of summer. Listening to a NPR report of how children are spending too much time infront of televisions and computer screens was interesting. There were several tips of how to get them to do 1 hour of exercize.

Kids in our world don't have any of those problems. The only thing we try to do is get them out of the sun for a bit.

With three weeks of school left these guys are ready. As I remember summer as a young teen.....

I am jealous

Today was Cold, Dark and Bitter

Just as I prefer my Beer.

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)