Fluky Friday Flash

<>My phone rang this morning at 6:15 a.m. Yes! 6:15 a.m. people! It was a customer trying to send me a fax. Lucky for him I was inspired by a late night text message from "Helen Keller" saying she was in for a 6 a.m. butt kicking by her trainer, so I was already up, shoes tied and about to head out the door when it rang. I wasn't going to run this morning, but that text message got me motivated and I hashed out an easy 4-miles or what I'd like to think as a warm up for the surfing fest the eastern coast of the U.S.A. is going to experience tonight, tomorrow and Sunday! Thanks "Helen Keller" and I hope you survived your workout! ;-)

<>I took my camera running this morning in the hopes of catching the bats again. My timing was off again (story of my life in more ways than one), however I did catch the most AMAZING sunrise as I was jogging down Riverside Drive. This made carrying the camera worth it!

<>That's it for this week. I've been so busy working that I have no other random ramblings. The only other obvious thing to mention is the approaching Hurricane Bill swell. The storm is lining up perfectly for epic surfing conditions. We're already starting to see the effects as the waves are starting to fill in with size. By this evening it should be fun and tomorrow it could be the swell of the year so to all my surfer buddies out there HAVE A BLAST, GET BARRELED AND BE SAFE!!!!! I'll be heading south to a couple secret sandbars my friends and I have discovered! Stay tuned for what should be a great story and plenty of pictures!

And so it begins...

Waiting....

The latest forecast on Hurricane Bill, now a category 4 storm!

If this isn't PORN for surfers I don't know what is!!!!!!!This is for the east coast of Florida for Saturday. I'm drooling already!


What a perfect path projection. Not making landfall, but giving us the swell. Even Bermuda will luck out, hopefully, with the weak side of the storm.

Part of the story on MSW:
"HURRICANE Bill is now a 'major' Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 135mph and producing swell in excess of 45ft. Perhaps the best hurricane surf for a over decade? As forecasters it's difficult to withhold and damp down our excitement over a storm of this magnitude following such a perfect track.

This is no Katrina, it will not devastate large areas of land if it holds course 500 plus miles off the Eastern Seaboard - but it will pump high quality surf in the double overhead range at the coast. High pressure is set to dominate closer to the coast, serving a dual purpose of keeping the hurricane out to sea whilst delivering sunshine and offshore winds. If these factors all continue to come together it could be be 'the' perfect storm for East Coast surfers."

If anyone knows a media outlet that would like to hiring a contributing writer/photographer to cover the surfing side of the Hurricane Bill story I am ready, willing and able to jump in my truck and chase this storm up the Eastern Coast of the USA!!!! How awesome would it be to hit up Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey/New York and Maine all in a few days??? It's going to be going off. I can't wait to see everyone's pictures including my own!

Hurricane Bill.... bring on the swell!

Can I just say how EXCITED I am about Hurricane Bill! It looks like all the stars and planets are aligning to give us the classic hurricane swell we've been waiting for all year. The current forecast has it going up toward the North Atlantic, which should send great waves our way and keep the property damaging wind far from shore! I woke up this morning to see this before my 3-mile run on Magicseaweed.com (my favorite forecasting site):

"Hurricane Bill is still on track to deliver a very significant swell event to the East coast for the end of the week which we expect the forecast data below to under call, think Bertha on steroids and, if it comes off as currently forecast, swell of the season stuff."Bertha was the first tropical swell we had last year. It was amazing if I remember correctly. I'm talking overhead glass out front. Take your pick... everywhere was going off! If this is going to be better than Bertha, I'm going to be stoked out of my mind! Check out that 13 second period for Saturday! We might have to hit up some secret sandbar spots down on south beach. All the Orlando weekend warriors will be here since it's on the weekend along with a few really out of towners from the Surf Expo. Regardless, I'm stoked! Hopefully, I'll have some amazing surfing pictures to post after the weekend!

In other news:

Oh Otis Spunkmeyer... I hate you, but I love you.
The local title company girls bring you in each week...
Hot and fresh and soft, completely irresistible
White chocolate with cranberries, yum!
I ran 3-miles before the sun came up today...
It won't hurt to each just one of you.
But each week I find myself eating more,
like today I just had to have EIGHT!

Seriously, these cookies are my downfall. I ate eight of those bastards today before I knew what hit me and now I'm not even hungry for lunch. But, I am hyper as hell!