The Prehistoric Grocer Weighs In.

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Mantastic

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 10:55 am Click here to edit this post
I sent this to the RR, but I thought you, my fellow BGs, deserved an explanation too, no matter how trivial (!). If any of you have ever surfed, you'll understand.

I've had a busy weekend and haven't been able to play the game and interact as much as I would have liked. If I were the other BGs or the voting public, I'd probably nominate and vote ME out. But if by some miracle I survive this round, I expect to participate a little more enthusiastically.

The fact is, the waves are good in my favourite surfing spot in the Bay Area, and when they're good, you surf. Everything else is second. But it's rainy today and if you surf when it's raining, you find yourself paddling through all this brown foamy sludge made up of agricultural runoff from the fields and yucky litter. So today, buried away in my cubicle, I will contribute a little more. Weekends are tough for me, but weekdays I'm all yours.

I also have a bunch more stories in mind. I don't know if you all liked the last one, or if you're covering your eyes and ears in shock and calling the RCMP to launch an investigation. So I'll just keep writing. They're not pre-prepared. I'm writing off the cuff to my captive audience.

And trying to beat back my natural iconoclasticism!

Mantastic

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 11:02 am Click here to edit this post
Another thing. I don't know about all of you, but I'm not all that sure I know who everyone is, vis a vis nicknames and board-identities (real names don't exist for us here, thank god). I'm pretty sure I know the identity of a couple of you, but there are still at least three of us that I'm not sure about.

Should we keep up the mystery? Should we post the truth? Has the public guessed (Probably. Jana doesn't miss much.)? Do you all know who's who?

Luke

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 11:07 am Click here to edit this post
Hey Mantastic... Good to see you! I had a slow start as well--some problems going on Friday and Saturday just as the game started... This week I'm going to be around here a lot more, though.

You're in the Bay Area too, huh? Yeah, kind of dreary weather today. I hear it'll be like this all week. Where do you go surfing? I have a friend who is just starting out, but he's already hooked... He goes surfing off Santa Cruz and such.

Great to have you here!

Mantastic

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 11:14 am Click here to edit this post
Santa Cruz is good. Steamer's Lane, and Old Man's are good starter beaches.

I surf in a couple secret spots a little farther north up the coast... various spots from Pescadero up through Half Moon Bay and occasionally Pacifica. Surfers are deliberately vague when it comes to naming their exact spots, because more people knowing about the good ones means more people in the water. Then soon you're waiting in the lineup outside the break with fifty other surfers and it's like being on the 101 on a monday morning.

And you know what that's like.

Vykin

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 11:26 am Click here to edit this post
Morning Luke, Mantastic, I'm just popping in before I take a shower but I'll come back and talk to you before the hour is up. Today is a stat holiday in Canada, so I'm freed up, except for another quick dinner obligation later today.

Luke

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 11:27 am Click here to edit this post
Believe it or not, it was actually good today--I head down from the City to mid-peninsula every day. But I just moved up here... I used to live in South Bay (Almaden)... That commute taught me the true meaning of Road Rage.

Moondance

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 12:12 pm Click here to edit this post
One of my fantasies has always been watching a man like Sam surf ... just thought I would let you know...

Vykin

Monday, October 09, 2000 - 10:07 pm Click here to edit this post
Only place I surf is on the web. It becomes a long day, if I want to go ocean surfing, since the ocean is an 8 hour drive from where I live. However, when we go to Mexico I usually do some minor body surfing.