Fail and Success.

I did not surf this morning. I woke up too hungover, it was way too cold to get out of my comfy bed, and the surfcam didn't look that good. I'm pretty mad at myself though. I usually never not go surfing (does that sentence make sense?). In my defense the two kids I planned on going surfing with bailed on me. As I previsouly said I hate surfing alone, especially in the winter. In fact I don't think I'll ever go surfing alone in the winter. In the spring/summer/fall for sure, but not the winter, its too harsh.

Anyway, here are some of the reasons why I didn't go surfing. Samuel Adams Winter Larger, Heineken Light, Bud Light, and Coors Light. Okay, those aren't the only reasons, I'm not an alcoholic. We went to the islanders game, fashionably late I might add, and I managed to talk down some scalpers from 90$ a ticket to 20$ a ticket. I'm very proud at myself because I never thought I could do something like that. Granted the alcohol helped a little bit, I'm not an alcoholic I swear. I just kept saying I'm not paying more than 20 dollars, I can go get tickets for 14$ with my student discount (which is true, but those were sold out, he didn't have to know that). We ended up getting 3 tickets at 20$ a piece, and these were the specialty seats with the replay screens in front and access to all you can eat and drink(dangerous). 180$ a ticket at we got them for 20 bucks. Great Success. Then we got 2 other tickets for free (80$ tickets that were closer, but didn't have the perks). These kind people tried to exchange 2 really good seats for 3 decent seats. They weren't allowed to so they just gave us the tickets. We threw them 20$ as a courtesy. All in all we got 3 180$ tickets for 20$ each and two 80$ tickets for 10$ each. I'm no mathematician but I'd say thats a pretty sweet deal.

heres the difference in seats. The first is the seat I got for 10 dollars. The second is the student discount seat for 14 dollars a few weeks back. be the judge of which is better.

Then after the game, in which the Islanders lost 1-3 on account of 2 goals for the islanders the refs didn't count (bullshit), we went back to a local bar in KP. There was a local band playing which actually turned out to be pretty good. Saw some friends, drank some beers, good times. On the way out I was talking to the lead singer of the band and he hooked me up with a free CD. Check out their music here.

Today I've got work 1:30-7 then I'm heading over to a friends house to watch the superbowl. Should be a good time, don't have any preference on who I want to win. I may slightly favor the Saints just because I love a good underdog/cinderella story.

Hockey.

I woke up at 7:15 and was at work by 7:30, pretty impressive. Got out at 3. Showered and drank 2 beers. No I'm not an alcoholic but a Samuel Adams Winter Larger is absolutely amazing in a hot shower, especially after work. If you haven't tried it, you must.

As I kind of expected my weekend plans didn't come to fruition. I planned on snowboarding tonight and surfing in the morning tomorrow. I got out of work too late, and it didn't even snow here on Long Island like it was supposed to. So snowboarding night session didn't happen. Plus its 50 bucks from 3-9 at mountain creek; no offense mountain creek, but your mountain isn't that good. The surf forecast has already changed a bunch since a few days ago. It was supposed to be good all day tomorrow and into monday. Now its supposed to be fairly good tomorrow morning only. I'm not too upset by it, because I planned on surfing sunday morning anyway. I hope its good and I hope I'm not too hungover to actually surf tomorrow. $8.50 beers is a pretty good hangover prevention tactic, thank you Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

As you may have guessed (if your from the New York area, or an Islanders fan) I'm headed to the Islanders game. Hopefully they don't get spanked like they did at the last game I went to.

Photo(s) of the day (2 weeks back after surfing):

Follow the Fish

If you don't, then you should. Paul Fisher is an australian surfer/partier/DJ/streaker. He gets paid to be hysterical. Click here to follow the fish, and laugh a lot.

Heres a little taste of fish and one of the Bra Boys Koby Abberton. Check out the documentary Bra Boys narrated by Russel Crowe to learn some more about Koby Abberton. This is one hard ass dude, seeing him like this is awesome.

Be warned, those aussies like to say some dirty words.

KobyFive from Paul Fisher on Vimeo.

This is a good night out in Bali with me and Koby going mad. I bet Koby $100 that he couldn't kiss 5 chicks in one hour. This is probably my favorite clip of this year. Hope you enjoy.

Bored.

Insomnia has set in. These pics are from about 2 months back when I first got my DSLR. Figured I'd throw them up there. This is the first time I used this camera. Me and my buddy Brian (karmapaymentplan) just went out for some longboarding, pretty warm out for December. Good times.

Music.

Lately I’ve been listening to all different sorts of music. I’ve always been into music and I have a shitload on my computer, but it’s all the same type of music. Basically its G. Love, Sublime, and blink 182 and all bands that are similar to them. Yeah, sure I have some grateful dead and other older music sprinkled in, but for the most part just those 3 bands and bands who are similar. However, as of late I’ve been going off the deep end and listening to some new shit (new for me at least). I even downloaded a country CD (probably the first and last). Zac Brown band, they’re country, but not your typical country. I saw them live on the Tonight show (formerly the tonight show) with Conan O’brien.

Here, peep this videbro (mispelt on purpose).

Other bands I’ve been checking out are MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, The Sea and Cake, Phoenix, etc. By no means have I discovered these bands, but I never would’ve listened to them before. I have to give credit to this musical awakening to my friend Brian (www.thekarmaypaymentplan.blogspot.com). I also have done the same to him for a few bands. He fought me on G. Love forever, but then we went to an amazing G. Love John Butler Trio show a few summers ago and it was amazing. He was all about baby got sauce and cold beverages. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is people need to be more open and willing to try everything (except heroin). Not just with music with everything. I have another friend who just listens to grunge music. He won’t even listen to anything else. To him, its grunge music or nothing else. That’s his mentality with everything too. It’s his way or no way, he’s always right; and gets mad at you if you try and help him and show him a different/better way. I’m talking everything from a faster route to a movie theatre, to how to make onion dip, or a different way of working out. You can’t even try and help because he’ll get mad at you. It’s very fustrating cause I love the kid, but oh well, what can you do.

I’m not saying that I’m this perfectly open and tolerant person, because by no means is that the case. However this is something I’ve realized I need to get better at, and I have. I’d like to thank my ex girlfriend for bringing that to my attention. Just because you were brought up that way, doesn’t mean that is THE only way or the right way. Your opinion isn’t always right, try to not be stubborn and look at things through someone else’s shoes. I guess that’s one good thing I got out of that relationship, oh yeah and a sweet Nixon watch. No, I’m just kidding, well not really I did get the watch, but that’s terrible. I got an IPod too J. (good thing she’ll probably never read this). I think if we all did that, we’d be a little better off. I always do that, or tell my friends to do that when they’re being a dick or an asshole to someone. Like ditching a friend or playing a prank or some shit like that. I make them think and I say “how’d you feel if that was you all alone getting laughed at.” Sometimes I see them realize “oh shit your right” and sometimes they just laugh and continue doing what they’re doing. Oh well, what can you do.

Well I’m done being a Philasoraptor (like the dinosaur, but not). I have a full day of class ahead of me and I was just thinking about this on the train commute and felt like sharing.

Green Is Good.

Green is good, especially when I'm looking at swellinfo.com. Green means favorable winds and clean waves. A lot of green = A lot of good. Heres what I'm talking about.

So far this weekends looking pretty good. Finally something to look forward to. I'll thankfully be able to get some surf in the way my work schedule works out. I may even snowboard saturday night. I'm pretty stoked. Just have some work to do tonight for school, work 5:30 to 9, school all day tomorrow, then it's play time. I'm also excited to try out my new wetsuit. I hope its more flexible and I can actually move, maybe even actually surf while I'm out there.

Today I woke up, took care of some shit off the ol' to do list. Went to the gym. Now I'm gonna do some more to do list shit then go to work.

College.

College to me is just a big old waste of time. We spend a lot of money and waste a lot of time for a piece of paper that only means something in the job market. I don't even want to go into the job market but I "have to", thus I "have to" have a BA. Don't get me wrong, I love learning and knowledge, but thats not what college is these days. College is a series of required classes, "credit hours", "proficiency exams, and a whole list of other bureaucratic bull shit. College is pretty much a business and these schools try to do everything they can to keep you here. Hardly anything I've learned in college is useful. All my important life lessons I've learned through experience, mistakes, and learning about subjects of interest to me. If that movie acceptance was a reality, except not as drastic and extreme, college would be awesome. Just learn about what you want to learn about for four years then get a job. Fuck Lit 232, Math 105, Comm 104 and all those other bull shit classes. What the hell did we go to High School for if we're just going to do it all over again the first 2 - 3 years of college. I want to learn through traveling, trial and error, experiencing life, learning through people we know, and reading what I want to read. I don't want to come to a building all day sitting around for hours on end to hear professors try and relate popcorn kernels to the economy (yeah, that happened at 11am this morning...) Fuckin A. I better be done with this shit next year. But then it's on to the real world and a job. Is that going to be any better? Who knows

I've realized that all these posts have been very angry and negative. I apologize. I'm not some miserable I hate the world bastard. Just in a bit of a funk. Usually happens every year around this time, the winter gets to me. I'll try and cheer up.

Yeah, anyway. I spent all day in the city at class, doing nothing. I still have another class now, then an hour and 45 minute commute home. Good Times.

Snow tomorrow, enough to setup a snowboard jump/rail. Lets hope so, doubtful though.

Waves forecasted for Sunday and the following Monday. I better not be working. Waves then the super bowl would be an awesome Sunday.

My homebase:

Exhausted

I woke up around 10; needed to catch up on sleep. I ate breakfast and showered then worked all day at home depot. 12-9. I got home, ate and showered. Now I'm going to bed cause I have class 9am to 11pm tomorrow. Some life huh. Hopefully I'll do something productive during my breaks tommorow instead of checking facebook and twitter 10 times because I don't know what else to do. I hate that habbit, I need to break it.