I am a coffee shop addict. Found this one on Yelp – Ost Cafe. So cozy in the rain. It’s dim and candlelit – I’m journaling by candle.
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Photoshoot downtown
26
Jul
Walking around downtown San Diego Val spotted this green wall. She wanted a picture in front, and so I had to have one as well. Alexis and Moana just waited thinking we were nuts haha.
IT”S CLOUDY AGAIN!!! >:(
22
Jul
Wow, I can’t stand this. The weather in San Diego has been absolutely abominable. It’s cloudy and drizzly! It’s like 64 degrees. It does NOT feel like summer! The sun came out for a few days last week and it was great, but it was so short lived. The sun has come out for about 5 days in total over the last month and a half. The worst part is that this horrible cloudiness makes me so tired and draggy. I hate surfing when it’s like this – I mean, it’s cold! And it’s endless. It just doesn’t go away!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I’ll be going to NY in about 10 days, and I can’t wait. It’s sunny and hot there. I wish I could go tomorrow. However I know as soon as I take off for NY it will become beautiful in San Diego. Ugh.
Everyone was saying how nice summer is in San Diego. So I stay for part of summer and it’s been the most horrible summer they’ve had in like 100 years. Grr.
So basically July has been all the bad stuff about summer – annoying kids running around because they’re not in school, traffic, crowds. And none of the good stuff – heat, sunny days, etc.
Sorry, I had to rant. This is almost as bad as Michigan in the middle of winter.
Surfrider Surf Movie Night
16
Jul
Just finished up the poster design for Surf Movie Night 2010 – can you tell I was listening to 80′s inspired music as I made it?
A Storm’s a Brewin
15
Jul
The one thing I miss about being in NY in the summer are the frequent thunderstorms. This is a picture of a storm rolling through here in Encinitas. This does not happen very often!
My Day Yesterday
30
Jun
Yesterday I had a very strange day. Well, it wasn’t that strange, but it started off with me waking up at 12:15 pm. Somehow my alarm got switched from AM to PM and of course it didn’t go off. But what’s weird is that I was in a coma until 12:15! This never happens to me. Usually I’ll wake up. I don’t know how I did that, but I suspect that it’s because of the June gloom marine layer making it look like it’s perpetually twilight outside. That means it’s pretty dark in my room all day, so I had no natural daylight to wake me up.
After I woke up I met Joanne and Val for lunch to watch a bit of the world cup action. My breakfast consisted of pizza and salad. I then went to Starbucks where I could only get my brain to function enough to upload some pictures to the Surfrider website. I then went home around 4pm, decided that I wasn’t mentally able to do any work, and went surfing for 2 hours. The waves were small but actually I had a pretty fun session. I need to be a bit more aggressive with my surfing so I can progress. I’ve plateaued a little bit but I’m getting much better at catching waves and my overall awareness of where I am while riding the wave has improved quite a bit.
Then I came back, took a shower, and watched Battlestar Galactica while I ate dinner. Then I surfed the internet for a bit and went to bed. Overall it was kind of a wasted work day, but looking back I kinda wish I had more days like this where I just kinda do what I want without worrying about anything. Usually I’m worrying about getting work done for my business. Since I have no set schedule I don’t give myself days off. I should do that. Days where I let myself just not worry about work for a day. Usually I only do that if I’m sick or incapacitated in some form.
Anyway, I’m working today, or at least trying to. I have to go to the laundromat though, which I’m NOT looking forward to. But I have a softball game at 7:30pm tonight so I’m looking forward to that.
Surf and Softball
28
Jun
So I’m kind of over having dropped and nicked my phone, although I was pretty upset about it that day. But overall I’m over it. I’m a little disappointed that the reception of my iphone 4 in my apartment seems to be worse than my old iphone 3g, especially since the iphone 4 is supposed to be better in this area.
Anyway, yesterday was a pretty good day. I went surfing in the morning with Val at this spot in Solana Beach called Tabletops. It’s a reef break that’s about a 100 yard paddleout from the shore. The waves were about chest to head high, and it’s a pretty steep wave when it breaks due to hitting the reef. After getting tossed on my first wave I figured out the way it was breaking and proceeded to get some really fun rides. Since we were at a new spot we felt like we were on vacation at some Hawaiian reef break – the water was so blue and the spot was actually very pretty with some caves in the cliffs along the beach. Sometimes I’ll have to go down there and take some pictures.
After that we went and had lunch at Naked Cafe with Lori and Shawn. I then drove down to Pacific Beach to hang out with Heather, and I ended up subbing in on one of her slowpitch teams that was playing in its final tournament. They needed an extra girl so I dropped in. I played pretty well – I love surprising people because nobody expects girls on these slowpitch teams to be any good. I turned a couple double plays – always feels so good! One was a 5-4-3 and one was a 4-3 double play after I fielded it. In case you’re wondering, a 6-4-3 is when it’s hit to the shortstop, who fields and throws to the secondbaseman who then throws to first. A 5-4-3 would be if it was hit to third. The positions in baseball or softball are marked as pitcher 1, catcher 2, first base 3, and so on. However third base is 5 and shortstop is 6.
Anyway, enough of my baseball ramblings. We had a lot of fun watching the US World Cup matches, even though they lost that heartbreaker to Ghana. It was a good run.
Looks like we are going to go to another Padres game in late July, and then I’m hoping to go to a Yankees game in August at the new Yankee stadium. Yanks and Padres are doing well in their divisions!
An L.A. Weekend
14
Jun
Sorry for the lack of updates! I’ve been sooo busy! Let me just give a rundown of this past weekend, and I’ll be back to write more details about the other stuff I’ve been up to.
I just spent a very long weekend in L.A. driving all over the place and checking out a lot of very cool events. I drove up with Val and Joanne to attend Billabong’s Design For Humanity event, which was a huge concert and party that took place in the NYC backlot set at the Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. We had an absolute blast – there were 3 concerts, food trucks, and drinks.
We crashed at Stef’s place in Downtown L.A. and woke up the next morning to get Val to a meeting with the marketing director of the Roxy theater in West Hollywood. While she had her meeting I was able to just chill and check out Sunset Blvd., grab coffee and check my email. It was nice to just take in the area for a little bit. After that we drove out to Malibu, but the waves were too small to surf.
Then we drove back to Santa Monica where we stopped by at one of Val’s friends places to shower. We then went out with a bunch of her friends to a dinner place called Pink Taco and then on to the Viceroy in Santa Monica for drinks. Then we drove all the way to Redondo Beach at 3am to crash at her friend’s place. The next morning we grabbed breakfast and then drove back to Malibu and tried to meet up with my friend Nancy Mack who I know from Montauk. She tried to let us use the key to Little Dume, a private beach. Unfortunately we were apprehended by some sniveling rule follower guard who confiscated our key and told us that the homeowner would have to come back with a photo ID in order to get the key back. What a pain!
Then we went to Santa Monica to go shopping on the 3rd st. Promenade and had lunch there. Then we drove to Arcadia to meet up with Val’s Aunt and brother’s girlfriend where we had Thai food. After that we drove back to WeHo (West Hollywood) and went to a concert at the Roxy, which was free thanks to that meeting with that marketing director that Val had on Friday. Then we had 1am food at Mel’s Drive In on Sunset Blvd. Then we drove all the way back to Arcadia to crash out. I was SO tired. Then we woke up and had the BEST lunch sandwich crepe EVER in this little Japanese crepe place in Arcadia. Finally, we drove back, chilled for a few hours, and then went surfing.
As you can see it was an incredibly eventful weekend! Hey, you only live once right 
I’ll post more pictures later!
Sunset Blvd, Hollywood
Shirock @ The Roxy
Softball And Sushi
13
May
So yesterday I had the pleasure of connecting a bat with a ball for the first time in like 3 years. I can’t believe it’s been that long. What is wrong with me? Time flies when you’re having fun I guess. I’ve been concentrating on surfing while I’ve been in California, and when I was back in NY between college and California I didn’t really have much desire to find a team. So Heather asked me over the weekend if I wanted to join her Wednesday night team and I just decided to go for it. For some reason I hadn’t wanted to commit to doing anything on a specific day for a long period of time because there are always so many conflicts with other cool things that are going on around here (surf movie premieres, launch parties for eyewear brands, etc…..well those are things that are happening on a few Wednesday nights this month. What a wild life I lead.)
ANYWAY…it felt so good to play again. I went like 4 for 5 or something with a home run. I was very stoked indeed. I’ve been missing this sport, and now if feels so good to be back in the game.
So last night after my home run I went to the launch party for O’Neill eyewear, which took place at Zenbu Sushi in Cardiff. O’Neill eyewear is being distributed under the Spy Optic umbrella, and my friend Val works for Spy. So that’s how I ended up there. Anyway, they were doing giveaways and at one point my friend Joanne grabbed my arm and dragged me up to the front saying that they were calling for two girls. So I get up there and I’m all confused, and apparently they had made these two pieces of sushi with weird stuff in it. I forget what it was, but it wasn’t that weird. I think they wanted to make them super hot (they put a jalapeno pepper on them) but they failed completely. I ate it and it wasn’t hot at all. It just tasted like sushi. So the guy got all annoyed because I wasn’t rolling around on the ground begging for water. haha. Anyway, they gave me a free pair of sunglasses!
It was a pretty fun party and I was all happy because I had played pretty well in the softball game. It’s weird, surfing gives me a great high, but playing well in a softball game gets me pretty amped up too – almost moreso.
