Around Halloween.

I got to be Santa Claus for Halloween.  Mia and her roommates threw a themed Halloween party, the theme: Holidays.  Mia ordered a Santa costume that was mistakenly sent to Florida on Oct 31st, so her roommate, Syd, went out and found this gem of a complete Santa outfit. Some notable costumes include: Groundhogs day (A groundhog, and then another person dressed all black as their shadow), a Christmas tree with presents and shoes and a Thanksgiving turkey. I thought it was awesome, and was committed to wearing my full outfit with all the pieces for the whole night. It was a lot of fun, but I hurt the next day at work. Luckily it was a Friday and I surfed and left at 4pm. 

Over the weekend I bodysurfed and chased seagulls around.

Now I’m going to talk about something that bothers me. This guy in the photo of the white truck - he sleeps in his truck every night - and he’s not the only person getting away with this.  It’s like these guys flunked out of responsible adulthood and still own a little boat, therefore have access to the marina’s parking lot and facilities, so they just post up. It irritates me because the bathroom showers have been used with no respect and left filthy, covered in dirt, peoples toothbrushes, wet soggy paper towels in the stall, just taking away from the $200 extra I spend as a liveaboard for the clean facilities. Really, not a lot of things get ‘under my skin’ but this does. So this guy drives in around 7pm, brushes his teeth while sitting in the drivers seat, spits on the ground in a parking spot. He was cutting his fingernails in the drivers seat when that picture was taken. He has a twin-sized bed and box-frame stacked with a sleeping bag under the bed cover of his truck. Then he’s gone around 6am every morning. I know he’s using everything as much or more than I am that I pay an extra $200 for each month, and he’s one of 5 or 6 possible new guys who slum-up the bathrooms and showers nowadays, and I know he’s not paying it… I guess that’s the part that upsets me. 

The windowless vans used as closets and storage sheds don’t bother me, neither do the flat-tired old work trucks that never move, it’s the guy sleeping in the bed of his truck beside my car at night and receiving, for free, everything I pay extra for. I hope he isn’t smug about his new inexpensive lifestyle choice. I’m done talking about it now.

Daylight savings happen, the fall-back version.

Downside: it gets dark before I leave work.

Upsides: it’s daylight earlier, so I have time to surf before work again. I didn’t really rely on the daylight after work for much anyways. It makes people lazy (statistically) so my gym is less crowded from now until after new years. The sun rises more in the south and always directly into the cabin, warmly waking me up on the weekends. Some of the liveaboards can’t tolerate the chill and move back to land - I’m not being mean, a handful of these guys had condos in AZ or somewhere to reside in the winter, making for less competition to get a clean shower stall every morning.