Major Cardiff Kook

Yeah, I know. My neighbor was right. It was a huge thing they did to the Kook. No doubt. I didn't get down there to see it, though.  Blast!

Soooooo, I moved

to the next building and it took all this time to get settled. It's been almost 2 weeks.  I had trouble with Time Warner, too. I was watching the Charger game and this guy knocks on the door. He says he's looking for George, the last guy who lived here. I said he moved. The guy said thanks and left and the next thing I know, my tv goes off. In the middle of the Charger game. So I call Time Warner and make a payment. That wasn't the problem. But they're not open so I have to READ for the rest of the night.

Then I call the next day and they send a guy out to turn the thing back on. Apparently, when someone moves, they have to physically turn off the cable and then turn it back on in the name of the new person. Whatever. I think the guy who turned it off was a Raider fan because he was laughing when he left.

Bastards.

I am still laughing

On Weirdest UFO Stories today: 

The narrator, who is British (of course. Why is that?), recites the tale of the great mind that posited the theory that ancient aliens built the Great Pyramids. The stones each weighed about 80 tons and came from hundreds of miles away before the invention of the wheel.  This meant that the only way to get the stones to Giza was for great numbers of men to drag them. The alternative theory that it would take some other-worldly force to accomplish the task is more plausible to the theorist and it sounds reasonable to me.

The problem with the theory is that carved on the pyramids are pictures of arrays of men with ropes dragging large things like statues.  The narrator points out that there are no aliens in the pictures unless they are cunningly dressed as ancient Egyptians.

Old Guys Rule!

Kelly Slater is grinding it out at the U.S. Open in Huntington Beach.  It was called the O.P. Pro when I was in my 20s, but they had a riot when the bathing suit competition's contestants started to strip and I guess they had to distance themselves from that checkered past. Oh well.

Anywho, Kelly Slater, who is 39, was winning as of yesterday!  Righteous!
http://www.grindtv.com/surf/blog/29410/in+perfect+surf+kelly+slater+inspires+mind-blowing+round+of+performances+at+us+open+of+surfing/

Bubby!

My oldest brother, Steven, came to visit on his way home to Florida from Hawaii. I took him to Besta Wan. Mallory met me in the parking lot with a Stone IPA. Hermana!

Hummingbird Fights

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