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- From: njtravis@ux5.lbl.gov (Nancy Jean Travis)
- Newsgroups: alt.surfing
- Subject: ho ho ho
- Message-ID: <1hga90INNcun@overload.lbl.gov>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 00:50:40 GMT
- Reply-To: njtravis@ux5.lbl.gov (Nancy Jean Travis)
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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- OK, Santa, I think you got it major wrong this year!
- I tried pretty hard to be good all year...I tried a little bit...
-
- So I decided to go surfing for Christmas instead of doing
- the family/presents/party thing. I got up early and put my board
- on the Thing and saw this festive snowy crushed glass effect on the
- tail as I was strapping it down. I opened the bag and saw the whole
- tail was smashed. Ho.ho.ho. It didn't look that way when I hung it up
- last.
-
- I'm too big to cry, so I glopped it full of Quick Fix and went anyway.
- An hour later, I was standing on the cliffs of Pleasure Point.
- The Pacific looked like the Mediterranean sea, nice day for kayacs.
- The locals were hanging their heads for Christmas.
- Steamer Lane was even worse.
- Wave Trak missed this time, forcasting a head high surf for today.
- "Well," they said, "maybe the swell is late getting here."
- Merry Christmas.
-
- My tail patch was too wet and temporary to surf anyway. Bah humbug!
-
- Now my freshly modified Christmas-Custom Stewart HydroHull is drying in
- front of the fireplace. It used to be a square tail but since the
- corners were smashed its now a radical rounded square tail (soon to
- be a pintail if my luck keeps up!).
-
- The swell is probably still on its way.
- I have 10 more days off work and Santa owes me!
-
- Nancy
-
- P.S. I got a new surf hat for Christmas-a cowboy hat with a shark on the
- front.
-