Where to start, where to start. Brad, Junior, Brad's chiropractor Scott and I went surfing last weekend off of trail 3 in San Onofre. It's south of the SONG power plant and the surf beach we usually go to. Since the trails are so steep and long, there's usually less people there and we happened to be some of the only ones out and the waves were sweet. It was so much fun and I caught a bunch of really awesome waves. It was a total burn having to leave and go to work. Brad's wife, Melissa, took some pictures of us from the shore.
From top to bottom:
-me surfing a right and making a frontside cutback down the face of the wave
-me riding a left in with a nice hollow line
-brad is wearing the hat. he's a good surfer
-scott is wearing the boardshorts. he prefers shortboards instead longboards
-junior is about to start entering into competitions. his body weight helps him catch more waves than all of us. people compliment him all the time on what a great surfer he is
-so you can imagine how much brad and i enjoy pictures of junior wiping out really hard. hahaha
On July fourth, Brad and I drove to down to cliffs at Palo Verdes to catch fish and stuff off of the reef because the tide was really low from the new moon. It's like a sheer 100 foot cliff to climb carrying 5 gallon buckets and my legs were killing me the entire next day or so but I caught some neat stuff. A few conch slugs, some fish, a few anenames, a brittle starfish and a ton of hermit crabs. The large black fish is the only damsel that lived, and sadly, Marvy the little red crab I've had since I bought the tank in january passed away last week and was then quickly consumed by the brittle starfish. It's interesting. I'll post pictures soon.
I've been giving it a lot of thought over the last few months or so and after discussing it with dad a lot, I've decided its finally time to sell my truck. It's been a good truck and I think it's the toughest looking truck I've ever seen (it's the company car for the Taliban hahaha) but it's time for better gas mileage, an automatic and definitely some AC.
So I'm going to try and have the paint rebuffed and clean everything out and then it's going up on autotrader in the next few weeks. Afterwards, it's down to the LAPD credit union I go to see what it's going to take to get me a loan, and then it's off to shop for my new/used car. The one I've decided on? Drum roll please...
A 2004-2007 Scion xB. I'm surprised at myself to say the least. When Scion first began marketing, I (along with many other people I imagine) had a hard time getting used to the idea of "crossover suv's". For a while I even labeled the xB's as "the new Stanzas". But they've finally grown on me. My coworker has one and she loves it. My good friend CJ has one and he loves his. Jessie from Tiefighter had two and he loved both of his. I really like the way the larger 2008 models look but they have a larger 2.4 liter as opposed to the first gen's 1.5. It doesn't make sense to spend an extra six grand on aesthetics when I'm buying the car almost completely to increase my gas mileage. I think Suze Orman would go for the older model that gets 26/31 mpg.
So that's that. Wish me luck with selling the Toyota, I'm pretty confident I can get enough from it to put down a substantial chunk of change for a down payment.
p.s. I saw Wall-E. I liked it. It was no toy story or finding nemo, but it was cute. B+
2 comments:
Good luck getting the new car! Our friends Catheryne and John have one of those older one and they love it too. Daniel doesn't like the way they look, but he can suck gas, right? (J/K honey.)
I'm sorry about all your fish passing away. That's a lot of death in a short period of time.
Awesome pics too! Thanks for posting those! I'm glad you're enjoying your summer and taking advantage of your SoCal beaches.
We saw Wall-E too. I've been procrastinating on a review because I'm not sure what I thought.
Love you and miss you!
P.S. Mom always asks if I've heard from you and wants to know how you're doing.
I hope you get a good price for your truck! I don't know if AutoTrader charges you to post it on there, but if they do, don't do it. I know it's not that much, but Craigslist works just as well and it's free. You should be fine if it's priced well and looking it's best...people just like shiny things :) And although I've never been a huge Scion fan, I'm slowly coming around. I've never actually been in one, so that probably has something to do with it.
That really sucks about your deaths in the tank. I remember my dad had some trouble getting everything balanced out. You should be good to go once you get that figured out though.
It sounds like you're having a lot of fun! I'm really glad to hear that :) Hanging out with people is the best part of life, in my opinion (even though it drains me to do it all the time). Hope you get a lot more good surfing in before the summer's end!
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