Everything is Irie
Posted on May 11th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
Not too much has been going on lately, which is great!!!
We had a nice swell come rolling in on the east coast of Florida this week, which was epic.
Spracky and I got to go see Captured! by Robots at JackRabbits, and it was a great show. J-Bot is an amazing one man band. And he has some really good lyrics. Go check out the website, it’s worth it. You can check out some pictures that Spracky took at the show in our Flickr account.
We are trying to plan another trip down to Costa Rica, but everything isn’t lining up like we would like, hopefully everything will come together at the last minute, we both need a break!
Spracky cranked her ankle a week ago while we were riding our bicycles. She keeps on trying to blame me. She was swatting at a fly that caused her to get off balance and sprain her ankle. And the fly in question was bothering me just a couple of seconds sooner and I didn’t kill it…Spracky’s logic!
I have been using Twitter lately which is like a real-time, one-liner blog, and it is pretty interesting to see what your friends are doing throughout the day.
Remember to try to think green, we have been riding our bicycles to drop off our dry cleaning, I know it’s not much but we get a little bit of a workout (nine miles round trip), and we aren’t using gasoline. 
Dax out-
Imus fired???!!! WTF???!!!
Posted on April 12th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
I can not believe this crap is still going on. People get in a huge uproar when there is a bandwagon to jump on. Jackson and Sharpton come climbing out of the woodwork thinking that they are the second coming of the Prophet himself.
Nevermind the gratuitous use of such words like ni**er, ho, ni**a, nappy, bitch, and the like being used in almost every single modern rap “song”.
So it’s okay if you are of a certain race to use these words…the women of Rutgers were traumatized by Imus’ words…if that’s the case, I am traumatized by such things as B.E.T., the Miss Black America, the Ebony awards, the Source Awards, and the list goes on and on…but these things are not considered racist?????
It is 2007 people!!! I will not apologize to any race for something that happened before I was born and I did not have anything to do with. I do not think that just because you are a particular race, sex, belief, sexual orientation, or whatever that you should get a break in this world…this idea embodies the exact definition of racism!!
If a person of certain race can not speak their mind in America without having to worry about a lynch-like mob lead by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, then this is not a truely free country, and we are letting racists, like these two men, decide for the masses, what is okay to say.
Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton have made it painfully clear that only people of color are protected by the First Amendment.
Sorry fellas, but I have to disagree. I am a white male in America in 2007…although I am not protected under the minority legislation that has been passed over the past couple of decades, I am still the minority. Does this mean that I get special consideration when I go to apply for a job…nope. Does this mean that I get special grants from the government…nope. Am I going to get special considerations from the government if I owned a business because I am a minority…nope.
Who is truely being oppressed now?
Dax out-
6 years in the making
Posted on March 26th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
Six years ago this April Spracky and I got married in Hawaii. The day after we got married we walked down to the T&C Surf Shop right on Waikiki and I purchased my first “longboard”. The reason that I put quotes around longboard is because it wasn’t a true longboard, it was 8′6″ lon, but it had a thruster tail.
I think I have gotten this board wet once when I was trying to show Spracky how to paddle around in the ocean.
This past weekend there was a little swell that came through Florida. Right after work on Friday, Spracky and I headed out to my favorite local spot. It was a bit mushy, but I would rather paddle around then work.
On Saturday Spracky and I were getting ready to go to the beach and she suggested that I bring the longboard just for fun. I thought it was a bit of a hassle, but I said sure. Also, the water temperature was still in the upper 60’s to low 70’s range so I purchased a short-sleeve wetsuit top to wear with my boardshorts.
We got to the beach right at high tide. There were a couple of guys leaving the beach and they said that the surf was getting mushy. The sets looked really fun so I headed out with my 6′4″.
After paddling around for a while I was getting frustrated, I couldn’t catch anything. I headed back to the beach and talked with Spracky for a bit and decided to try the longboard out.
As I was trying to get out I was getting pounded by the surf. With a shortboard you can duck-dive under the whitewater or a breaking wave, but it’s just about impossible to do it with a longboard, I’m sure somebody can do it, but I don’t know anybody that can. So you keep getting hit head on by the whitewater and the breaking waves, and you get drug back towards shore. One time I almost lost my shirt and the board kept on flying back toward shore. I finally caught a break and paddled like hell to get to the outside.
Handling the board was a real challenge, you couldn’t just whip the thing around like a shortboard. One good thing was that you could paddle extremely fast on it, compared to a shortboard.
Once I had regain some arm strength I started lining up for some waves. The first set came and I started paddling for the first wave that I was in position for. I wave was passing me by and I was able to actually catch the wave due to how fast I was able to paddle on the longboard. I immediately stood up and it was almost like instinct to walk up the board a little to get a little more speed, mind you that I had never ridden a longboard before. I tried to turn, and of course fell off. You have to be a little bit more patient when trying to turn a longboard.
For the next hour or so I kept catching wave after wave, making sure to try to catch one of the waves toward the end of the set so I wouldn’t have to keep battling the rest of the set on my paddle back out.
I caught a wave almost all the way back to the shore and rested for a little bit with Spracky. I just couldn’t get over how much fun I was having on the longboard, I had always ridden shortboards.
Once I finally had some arm strength back I paddled back out for just a couple more waves. When I was ready to head back in I was looking for just the right wave.
I saw a set building, so I started to get into position. Since I didn’t plan on paddling back out I was just trying to concentrate on getting the largest wave with the best form. I started paddling for it and stood up. I started trying to fly down the face and cut back a little here and there. The wave started to mush out, so I started looking for the fast section to catch the reform. I was able to slide ride into the reform and I could see the wave starting to wall up, so I tried to get right in the perfect section and crouch down. I rode the wave all the way to the beach.
I could not believe how fun that was…I just stood there in the shallow water in utter disbelief…I started to realize that I had become one of those older guys that I always made fun of growing up that were riding longboards and they had the complete look of STOKE on their face.
Dax out-
Another great weekend
Posted on March 12th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
Another great weekend of surfing…not saying that the surf was great, but it was decent enough. This has been the first weekend in a while that all I did was made sure that I went surfing.
We have been so busy with packing, moving, unpacking, the D & D gathering in Lexington, we hadn’t had time just to relax. So Saturday I woke up early and started to run some errands while Spracky got ready for the beach.
Saturday I rushed right out into the line-up and completely killed my arms, I hadn’t been out since January…I should have known better. The tide was just changing to an outgoing tide, which is better at the spot we were at. I only caught one or two rides, but it always seems worth it at the end of the day.
Sunday we made our way to the beach, due to the time change we got there a little early so we sat on the beach and relaxed while the tide started to head out. There were about six guys in the line-up when we got to the beach, but they all headed in because the high tide was making the surf a little mushed out. By the time the tide had changed I had the line-up all to myself. After I had been out for a little while one other surfer showed up down south, otherwise the the peak was all mine.
Spracky was nice enough to snap some shots of the weekend.
Dax out-
So tired…
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
In 2006 I had a job for only 4 months. It was a bit stressful for myself, and of course Spracky.
At the end of November I began a contract with a company which is less than 2 miles from where we live. The people I work with are great, the work isn’t that difficult, and the pay is good as well. But I am just so tired of going to work five days a week.
When I wasn’t working, everything was done around the apartment, and I usually tried to get the grocery shopping done. Now Spracky and I are lucky if we have clean closes.
Don’t get me wrong, I am only allowed to work a 40 hour work week on this contract, but that 40 hours, and the other 10 to 15 hours a week I spend getting ready for work and what not, cuts into trying to get everything done.
It’s not that I don’t want to be a contributing member of society, I just wish I could make my own hours and have more time to spend with Spracky or just getting things done.
During my time off I started to realize that there are more important things that working your ass off 60 hours a week and trying to fit into the “corporate world”. If you spend your whole life trying to be “corporate” then that defines you. I would rather define myself, and a “suit” is not me…a regular job is not me. I guess that’s why I don’t mind working as a contractor. I don’t have to fit the corporate mold because I’m not trying to work my way up some “corporate ladder”, I’m just trying to get a nice size check.
Hopefully one of these days Spracky I will win the lottery and I can buy a surf shop, that way we can travel when we want, but I can always come back and work in the surf shop.
Dax out-
Moving day has come and gone
Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
First I would like to officially say that The Registry at Windsor Parke sux!!!
With that out of the way, on to the important news…Spracky and I have moved into a house, we are just leasing, but it is soooo much better than living in an apartment. This place is huge, we are about 90% moved and there is still an echo.
It’s so nice to not have to deal with loud ass neighbors slamming their door, or yelling and screaming like they are the only people in the building.
We still have to set up some of our furniture, but we are finally getting some peace.
Dax out-
iSwitcher
Posted on January 21st, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
This is another quick post, but I actually have a good reason, I finally got my first Mac. There is definitely a learning curve that I need to overcome.
Obviously, I am having to learn all the little short-cuts on the iMac that I utilized in XP, so that has been a challenge. So far I am really enjoying it.
It’s a gorgeous machine, with a lot of attention to detail in the design and usability that XP just didn’t seem to have without some major redesign.
Dax out-
MLK 2007 Surf Session
Posted on January 15th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
This will probably be a short post.
I got to get some surfing in yesterday and today, and Spracky got some shots.
Here is one of my favorites from today:
You can find the rest of the pictures here.
Dax out-
This doesn’t happen often, so write it down in your calendars
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
I need to make one minor retraction about a post I wrote a week or so ago.
The post was about the Delta Gamma girls from University of North Florida…and I beleive I called them ALL whores or bitches or something along those lines.
Well, I would like to retract my statement about one particular Delta Gamma, her name is Rachel Stone, she was the outgoing president of DG for Fall of 2006.
I found Rachel’s email address on the UNF website and sent her a plea for help. We had been to the apartment management and the police about these girls, after first trying to deal with the girls directly. Spracky and I have had several sleepless nights because of these girls and their “guests”.
So I wrote an account of the problems and the steps that Spracky and I have followed to try to have these girls understand that their upstairs neighbors had to work for a living…and I waited, and I was worried that I might have made things worse, but we hoped.
Rachel emailed us back within 24 hours, first apologizing for the girls’ behavior, and then expressing deep empathy for our situation. She stated that there was over 100 girls in the UNF chapter of DG and she would need some better descriptions of the girls in question, which is very understandable.
We looked all over the DG website for UNF and found a couple pictures of the one offender, but could not find or recognize the roommate.
I forwarded sed pictures and what little extra details that I could remember about these two neighbors. Rachel emailed us back verifing that the one in the pictures was the girl she immediately thought of when she received our first email.
Rachel then went on to explain that she would speak to the girls and was still extremely apologetic.
So, I would like to retract my statement with regards to Rachel Stone only.
Dax out-