An Emphatic No.

Update on the 'Deja Vu All Over Again' post:  My back is doing better-ish and I'm taking a lot of drugs right now to keep the pain down and the stoke up, but just got word from the doc about the Akolu race this weekend:  "Emphatically no, Steve."

I might start paddling again some time next week.  I can only hope.

In the meantime, I leave you with two thoughts:

1.  A Random Peppering.

This had me laughing hysterically -- and I don't think it was because of the drugs, although you might disagree:




2.  Sally Can't Dance.  [If you know what I'm referring to, it means you're at least 35 years old.]

I recently saw a board which impressed me a great deal.  The back story here is that I've often thought a P-40 Warhawk style shark's mouth would look cool on a board.  Not that I'm a war monger kind of person.  That I ain't.  However, it just looks really cool to me.  (Maybe I watched that Robert Conrad show Blacksheep Squadron a bit too much as a kid.  Whoa, a second old guy reference -- my apologies.) I'm referring to this:

The problem is, up until last Tuesday I had never seen it done right.  Whenever I'd seen it attempted, it usually looked far too 'forced' or just drawn plain old wrong.  Then I saw this one the other night:

Not sure who's board it was, but this is impressive.  I don't think I can pull this off anymore, but to the owner of this board I must say:  Well done.


Here's to getting healthy soon!