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By Ryan, March 17, 2009 4:58 am

I had a really good weekend this past week.  Friday was disk golf with Busby, Sage and B where Sage and I tied for first place in a four-horse race.  Saturday was a pretty slow knife sharpening day but was followed by B’s going away party!  I had a lot of fun meeting some new folk and seeing some people I hadn’t seen in a while (Alex, Faith, Travis, and even Whiskey Johson!)  The highlight of the event, for me, was tempting Busby to arm wrestle B for bragging rights.  It was a close match but Busby came away with the win (must be his whole-grain diet.)  I went out surfing at Swamis on Sunday morning with my newly repaired 9’6″ and had a really fun time.  Then it was off to work at Seaside Market (which turned out to be a better day than Saturday) and then back out in the water, this time at Pipes.  Not only was the surf better in the afternoon, I found an uncrowded peak so I got all the waves I wanted.  Good times.  It’s been a long, long while since I’ve had two surf sessions in one day so I felt really good (and tired) that night.

Today was a pretty relaxing day.  I had a mobile knife sharpening gig in the morning and as I was driving to the location this motorcyclist kept poppin’ wheelies on the freeways.  The whole time all I could think about is what I would tell the cops if I accidentally ran over him after he fell off his bike.  It clearly wouldn’t be my fault but I don’t know the legality of accidentally running over a foolish man.  The guy would look behind him (presumably to check for cop cars), get in a standing position (he had special pegs for this), pump his bike ~3 times and then do his thing.  As I drove past him he looked at me and we made eye contact which always seems weird to me while driving on the freeway.  I guess no harm no foul.  After the mobile, the rest of my day consisted of drinking a few beers and working on True Sharp.  I’m going to see if I can set up a mail-in sharpening service for drill-bits and clipper blades.  We’ll see…

I suppose that’s all for me tonight.  I have work in about 6.5 hours.  Le sigh.

P.S. This comic is hilarious:  http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1447#comic

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By Ryan, March 2, 2009 11:11 pm

I’ve started surfing again and it feels really great!  Today I went out at Blacks Beach and after a gnarley hike down the cliff I was greeted with 3′ surf and relatively sparse crowds.  Tthere are few better ways to start your day than to get barrelled at Blacks.  After a couple hour surf sesh, followed by the beach-walk back to the trail head past naked old men I took a deep breath and started up the trail.  I’ve done this trail before but this time I was equiped with an ancient 1960′s Hansen surfboard that I was riding and all of my clothes on my back (including my super heavy steel-toed boots) – I was feeling it.  I tried to look tough when I passed the Brazillian-speaking girls but I was honestly just hoping that I wouldn’t need to get airlifted to my truck the whole time.

After surfing I went down to PB and got some sweet, sweet currie.  The rest of my day revolved around doing chores (shopping for True Sharp, bankin’ some mons, chores around the house, etc.)  Tomorrow I’ll be back to work at the city job and then this weekend it’ll be sharpening knives.

Nelson has been coming to learn the knife sharpening trade for the past 4-5 weeks and I think that this will be his last weekend as an “apprentice”.  I hope that by 2 weeks from now he’ll have his own store and be makin’ bank.  Here’s to True Sharp’s newest addition!  ::raises whiskey and coke::

That’s pretty much all I have to say right now.  I’ll try to post more than once a month but no promises!  : ))