November 9ish
The weather forecast was pretty good. My weekend was mostly free. Mia’s family was in town for a little over a day. We’ve been talking about making plans to go sailing on my boat, and we finally made them. So, to prepare, I spent a few hours on Saturday cleaning the inside and outside of the boat – it hasn’t been sailed for about 2 months. I worked until sundown and then Mia and I drove up to Santa Monica and had dinner with her family. It was a ton of fun, and I valeted my truck which is having some quirky transmission issue, so that was fun, too. Fortunately, I washed it that morning and it was a shiny, sparkling, somewhat crippled truck as it rolled up at the nice restaurant valet.
Anyways, Sunday morning it was an ideal bright and sunny November day – a little bit of haze and a little bit of wind, virtually no swell on the water – Perfect for a comfortable day of sailing. My guests arrived around noon, just as the wind picked up and the sea was white-capping. “Oh, wow, the wind kind of picked up, a lot.” That’s what I was saying, but I wasn’t nervous because we could always adjust the sails to keep the boat ride mild and flatter. The sail took us down Redondo beach and then up north to the manhattan beach pier. It was a great time, I always enjoy bringing people out sailing when they ask questions about the boat. It makes me feel proud when I can answer questions about my own sailboat.
Mia is approaching time for finals for her second to last semester of law school. So during downtime she will study while I could do some of my own chores.
There’s also photos of sunsets, the weather last week has been more like summer and on Thursday my work had a happy hour on the patio deck, there’s certainly perks of the office location. And there is a picture to give you the idea of what I mean when I say that in the winter I’m woken up by the sun - it shines bright directly where I sleep.