Killing Time

The wind has been playing musical tempests of late, changing from Easterly to westerly every few days, maintaining the force of a nuclear hair dryer. And it’s doing nothing magical to the waves. If you do feel like surfing today, I’d advise harnessing yourself to a sign post in the street first. But, hopefully, if windguru.com aren’t wrong, there’ll be a bit of swell and moderate wind by the weekend (I feel like checking the weather several days in advance is as accurate as asking the magic 8- ball for a prediction).

My heart goes out to tourists on days like this. Especially people laving this afternoon. There’s nothing like seeing a Mercedes full of enthusiastic foreigners trying to squeeze in ONE LAST SWIM before heading back to a beach-less city.

There’s not a whole lot going on at the moment, as far as local and international surf competition goes. The O’Neil Sebastian Inlet contest has been held off for two days, because Florida and PE are experiencing similar plumbing issues. It’ll be as great contest to watch when it does start. To kill time until then, or until the waves play ball, here’s how I’ve been using internet quota productively:

www.youtube.com – top searches: Bob Dylan live Visions of Johanna, Jordy Smith rodeo flip, South African braai etiquette (this is hilarious!), Saturday Night Live Tina Fey Sarah Palin (also priceless), Tim Curran Focus clip

Otherwise Neil Gaiman’s blog/ journal is pretty darn fantastic. http://journal.neilgaiman.com/