The Dead Cell Zones, descended upon San Clemente in rain at 8:00pm and left without a cloud in the sky by 2:00am

What an amazing night...........4 hours of jam time produced a lifetime of stories and experiences
The second time the band has ever played together, and our first paying gig.

We arrived early at Goody's Tavern to begin equipment set up early.........In the rain and drizzle
I saw my friend Tikimatt in the parking lot and he said he had to dissappear for a few minutes as he was being stalked by "super wide glide gals" and he fleed into the hills.....

While we were setting up the band there was this guy that would scream at the top of his lungs
"Rock & Roll".............over and over again..........we all just smiled to each other and said this is going to a wild night..........We began our first set and began to warm up the crowd with "Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty followed by "One Headlight" by the wallflowers...........we had alot of people on stage and when the I got touched by the electric guitar on my right I got a nice little electric shock.....which would always make my face tweak a wierd expression...........

It was really fun to look into the crowd and see familiar faces on the dance floor
at one point in the night I believe the entire dance floor was packed to "American Girl" by Tom Petty!!!!!!!!!!

I am honored to have jammmed with such talented musicians and will always smile upon reflection of the evening with great satisfaction..........

It felt good to "Rock and Roll San Clemente" and my wife and I agree that San Clemente is our home and we must move back as soon as we can

A very special thanks to the man whom inspired us to even consider playing "Goody's Tavern" Robbie Roberson, a gifted drummer of whom we used to go watch his band play at Goodys, a boat builder, surfboard maker, innovator, kind hearted soul

Thanks Robbie you are a true friend and a hero to me

Agreeable, pleasant? It may hurt your career

Nice workers more likely to get pushed around, less likely to get promoted

By Etelka Lehoczky, Globe Correspondent | November 21, 2004

Do nice guys finish last at work, too? A new study says they do. After surveying white-collar workers in Britain, University of Sheffield researcher Nikos Bozionelos found that those with the most agreeable personalities were less likely to be promoted. In fact, Bozionelos found that being conscientious and pleasant might do your career more harm than good.

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Current technology in your computer uses silicon transistors, a semi-conductor, which unlike the two wires is on or off depending on the amount of voltage running through it. Millions of these transistors, now as small as a fraction of a micrometer, or less than a millionth of a meter, are placed on single chips.

The smaller you can make a transistor the more quickly electrons can move through. The faster electricity flows the fewer electrons are lost between where the current enters and exits the transistor, called contacts.

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Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 6:00am to 8:00am like clockwork
was my committement to the Orange Coast College Surf Team in 1981.

A full time student with part time work to pay for gas & school with my permanent oxidized Red Fiat Coupe with long hair with permanent surf racks mounted. The car had a funky starter and a tendency to just "not start". It became a kind of metaphysical thing after awhile because of the absolute propensity for the car to fail when I absolutely needed it to work the most! Like at a remote surf spot when you turn the key "no matter what you do" absolutely nothing happens. Wait 5 or 10 minutes and it would start up first click. New batteries, new starters, new anything wasn't in my vocabulary much due to my "deffered gratification" status as a student while I studied in school to try become something that I could afford a whole new car.

Surf permiated my life entirely, I shaped and painted surfboards in my garage.

Surf Team met at the south side of the river jetties in Newport Beach.
There are at least 40 people in the class kid you not!

First Day for class we met in the school auditorium where I was astonished by the number of people that applied the first day. I guessing low to be safe but there was at least 60 people Coach Laird Hayes wittled down the class by people whom followed exact matriculation produres. It was a frenzied day at got to a feverish pitch.
People were scrambling to get into class with a look of hopelessness on their faces.
Then finally the whistle blew loud as could be and brought the room to an echoed hush...
Alpha Male established his domain and all of the athletes fell into line
I don't know a single soul by my heart races with excitement
1/2 hour things settle down people leave whom didn't do their homework on matriculation

Final roll call

Brindley: "here" I say with a "who's your daddy" grin on my face

I remember thinking to myself;
"shit I'm in the class........I can't believe I will actually get credits for surfing"

some of the formalities are talked about, rules, regulations, where we meet,
good luck on parking but there on time, rules that will keep you in the class and rules that will kick your ass out of the class kinda stuff

Our guest speaker is Australian Surfer Peter Townsend, he breaks down the basic elements
of competition surfing, what the judges are looking for, waves rights and penalties according to the judges.

The fundamental and most basic concept of contest surfing.

The person furthest into the tube of the wave has right of way,
anyone in front of him is penalized.

A fall on take off forfeits your wave right.

Contact of any kind is penalized.

Outgoing surfers that henders a surfer on his/her wave is penalized.


These simple basic water rule fundamentals created an amazing amount of strategy and stealth
I would come to witness first hand in the water in the coming two years

this makes my 169 blog and I have always favored the way the 6 and the 9 go together so well

I am back on track and writing surf stories again....so stay tuned mon amigos

(CNN) -- As the polls closed at 7 p.m. ET in six states, CNN was projecting incumbent Republican President Bush as the winner in Georgia, Indiana and Kentucky and Sen. John F. Kerry was the projected winner in Vermont.

What a tease to the surfer that the weather is prime for surfing on the day you absolutely positively have to work


I need someone to invest $50,000 to take care of my bills for a year
so that all I have to do is paint and surf at will and we can make money together

I have a dream!!!!!!!!