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11/25/09 I think I’ll just go live in a coal mine. I absolutely hate it when the time changes and the day length gets into negative numbers. Getting home from work after dark every day is really depressing. Throw in a week of overcast, rainy yuck like this one and I’m a mess. BlogSon1 lived in Sweden for a year and I don’t know how he survived without the sun. There’s also this sort of irrational frenzy in the air every year at this time. I can feel it when I’m driving. It just seems like everyone is rushing around, going everywhere and nowhere all at once. Reminds me of an LP on a turntable at 45 rpm — I know the tune, but it doesn’t make me want to sing along. Maybe I can talk Vinnie into dressing like a Hare Krishna and handing out little flowers to people at the stoplights on Coleman Boulevard. It wouldn’t change anything, but at least I would be amused until the next swell pops up. Speaking of swells, they don’t do us any good this time of year unless they happen on the weekend. Of course, you could be self-employed like Norman and Kai or any number of guys I could name who have their lives organized around not working when it’s on. It’s one of those chicken-and-egg kind of things. Do they surf because they have the time or do they have the time because they surf? Ah, the mysteries of life abound. So, here we sit on the verge of a four-day weekend with lots of opportunity to go — if nature would only cooperate. Looking at the swell models, this is a hard one to predict. Thanksgiving Day looks to be the most promising. Seems like there’s always Turkey Day waves. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve paddled out trying not to hurl. There’s a fairly decent long-period swell on the map, and it looks like the wind is supposed to start blowing offshore. I’ll give Thursday a definite “maybe.” Then the swell model shows this big glob of weirdness appearing offshore, and the lines start going every which way. I don’t exactly know what that means other than to say you may not want to go boating on Friday and the rest of the weekend you’ll just have to check it. Oh, and one last thing — if this really angry-looking Hare Krishna tries to hand you a flower on Coleman Boulevard, you’d better take it or you’ll piss him off.
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