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Travel, Trips, Destinations / Re: Ireland.....Wow! Had I known....
« on: October 13, 2018, 02:28:49 PM »
I thought the Irish didn't SUP because it's too hard to hold a paddle and a bottle of whiskey at the same time.

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SUP General / Re: Surf Etiquette reminder
« on: October 13, 2018, 02:19:11 PM »
I have found that the number of individuals CAPABLE of courtesy to be limited around my l'il ole stomping grounds of Privates and Sharks.  They either don't know or don't care.

I practice defensive as much as possible, but still not possible to avoid every incident.  I yield to whoever comes down the line, but sometimes guys who aren't that skilled catch powerful waves and they don't maneuver, just steamroll.

Fog and large waves are the worst because guys who can't maneuver will just fly on in on faith through the stuff.

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Random / Re: Surfers Ear surgery - Chisel method
« on: October 04, 2018, 10:35:48 AM »
Certainly in the jaws, chisels are great for removing bone in a reasonably controlled manner.  You can shave bone with a sharp chisel down to the base and peel the bone away from adhering epithelium. It's quick, too, with a practiced hand, and minimally traumatic.

Burs leave shavings and can damage adjacent tissue more easily.

I would go with the chisel technique when possible.

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Random / Re: Thinking about a tattoo
« on: October 04, 2018, 10:31:34 AM »
This is why temporary tattoos exist.

Get your Ya-Yas and by the time you realize you did something stupid, it is starting to disappear.

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SUP General / Re: Florence
« on: September 12, 2018, 03:44:33 AM »
I was in Corpus Christi as a kid and experienced a hurricane that downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hit.  Mucho rain and wind on the Naval Base.

When I was in New Orleans, I experienced the mere outskirts of a hurricane.  The barometrics even that far away had to be experienced to be believed. The sky moved massively in a uniform direction, gusts reached 70mph and the building kind of popped and creaked as the air pressure changed rapidly back and forth.

Would I stick around for a direct hit from one of those things?  No sirreee.

My (ex) neighbor, in addition to his various exploits, spent some time in the Navy on Guam.  He and a friend thought it would be fun to experience a hurricane direct hit on the island in a boat in the ocean facing harbor.  The friend tethered the boat every which way to Sunday, but the tethers still popped until it was held by only one, so the boat wound up twirling and listing around this one rope.  He engaged the engine, which was worthless, and he and my friend only survived because of the peculiarities of the area of reef they were on.  The boat was wrecked.  I know my (ex) neighbor has done some crazy stuff, but that story nearly took the cake (he has some others).

It wasn't just any boat.  It was the first Australian built boat to circumnavigate the globe, so it was an historical artifact as well.  The boat sat ruined for many years, because the owner could not afford to repair it and had some other troubles surrounding it, but it was eventually hauled back to Australia where it was repaired and placed on display.

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SUP General / Re: HOT Chicks on Stand Up Paddle Boards!
« on: September 10, 2018, 01:34:47 PM »
I'll just pray there is never a TransGen on Stand Up Paddle Board thread.

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SUP General / Re: Florence
« on: September 10, 2018, 12:41:53 PM »
Zooport, crawling out of the wreckage of his brand new, storm ravaged Charlotte home:  "And you guys talked me into leaving Huntington Beach for THIS!!!!"

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SUP General / Re: Florence
« on: September 09, 2018, 02:57:49 PM »
Looks like Zooport is going to experience his first hurricane (remnants). 

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Random / Re: Throwing in the towel
« on: September 02, 2018, 05:01:54 PM »
Sorry to hear it to, but mainly because the 'forced' part of it might feel like failure rather than an opportunity, and you couldn't define the note you went out on.

However, your rampant industriousness will likely lead to a variety of second career option (or hobbies) that you will thrive in on your own schedule.

You have been an inspiration to me when I was struggling with the sport and wondering if I would EVER get anything resembling reasonable balance in SUP.

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Training, Diet, and Fitness / Re: Hip replacement and SUS
« on: August 22, 2018, 07:07:07 PM »
Just don't get the 'prostate massage' option, or you'll be in for a surprise.

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Down in Cali, smoke as well.  It's been that way for the past couple of years.  Up to about a month into summer, then smoke.  It extends the allergy season and makes you feel yucky.  Yellow skies and particulate created artificial fogs in the AM, even around Pleasanton.  I drove from Pleasanton to Santa Cruz last week, and the smoke was worse in Santa Cruz, so the ocean proximity is not always a boon.

The humid, hot and smokey summers/fall in Pleasanton was one of the motivating factors to getting a place in Santa Cruz originally, as well as ocean proximity.

At least, for seemingly the first time in years, we had a very nice spring and early summer, with light fog and afternoons of clear sun and sweet breezes, like the olden days.

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So, the cat is out of the bag.  Doctors can be whore-ey.  Why toil in the vineyards for ungrateful patients who are looking for reasons to sue you when you can just get paid to participate in a profitable craze, or take marching orders from drug or alcohol industries?

So much is UNKNOWN and UNPROVEN even today, that filling the gaps with profitable conjecture posing as science is about as common as miracle diets in Cosmopolitan's advertising section.

Quacks can make a lot more money than "legitimate" providers in many instances, with no effort other than assertion fallacy mingled with random speculation and audience gullibility, so why not take the shortcuts and get rich?

Nothing better than hitching your wagon to a successful nostrum or craze therapy.

When I was in dental school, they talked about a dentist who toured the country with satchels full of candy giving talks in grammar schools that sugar was good for your health and that all the news about tooth decay was false, ending by handing out candy.  He was handsomely paid by the sugar manufacturing industry.

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SUP General / Re: Farewell to Zooport
« on: August 01, 2018, 04:50:15 PM »
You'll learn all kinds of interesting anthropologic things about people from other parts of the country.

"You mean, you don't support your lifestyle with two or three second mortgages, not even ONE?  There are only TWO plastic surgeons in the Chamber of Commerce?"

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...Yet, there was kinda of a flat affect in the areas I was in ...

Its our dope.  :P

In Santa Cruz, vendors drool on your change and waiters/waitresses drool on your table.  You get used to it.

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SUP General / Re: Farewell to Zooport
« on: August 01, 2018, 11:13:00 AM »
Zoo, you can still be Zooport. I'm sure you'll find a zooport on the Right coast. Maybe just less Mercedes and implants:) I always welcome change as long as there is some left in my pocket when things settle.

That's right.  Zoo won't recognize naturals.  "What are those on the womens' chests?"

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