Hitting The Window....

I woke up this morning to rain hitting our eastern window. Its not too often that happens...usually during a rainstorm I hear the rain landing on the roof but not the window. I checked the weather radar and saw this...

...which roughly translates into "its going to rain a lot for the next few hours." My weather prediction from last week was off by one day.

So what's to come? I say that it rains most of today then clears up on Thursday until Saturday when the next storm comes in Saturday night / Sunday morning. It won't rain as much as this one...and the wind should be more out of the southwest. We'll see...

I'm Pretty Sure Thats Not How It Works...

I don't know everything about track and field but I have a feeling this guy would be disqualified...

It Is Going To Rain....

It is going to be a rainy winter vacation.....at least that is what we are predicting. I have been playing around with GRIB files. GRIB is a technology that allows major meteorological organizations such as NOAA to send detailed weather information in a condensed format. The primary audience is the crew of yachts who are sailing in the open ocean. I found a free GRIB viewer program called zygrib. I installed it and started playing with interpreting weather predictions.GRIB files contain computer generated data but not human predictions. I combine this information with data found on shortwave radio faxes to try to make predictions.  

It should rain all weekend into next week with a real heavy dose of rain coming next Thursday....or so I predict. We will see...

Chocolate Bunny

Skim boarding is one of those things where I couldn't understand why someone would want to do it until I saw a video of someone who was REALLY good at it. Bill Bryan pretty much has the shove-it down. Check this out an imagine  how much water must go up his nose every day. Now I know why the skim boarders I knew in high school always seemed to have a broken forearm.

Crashed Out....

The sun is coming out but it has been cloudy and rainy all day. Everyone is kicking back indoors...including Jack who I found chillin' the sink.

Vintage Religion

After breakfast, Michelle and I took a trip to Vintage Religion. Vintage Religion is a store in San Diego that specializes on a variety of artifacts / artwork with a religious vibe. We have quite a few pieces already in our house.

Michelle and I found a cool cross to hang over the front door and a funky old wooden "angel skeleton" that we hung from our ceiling lights. Unlike other "distressed" pieces we have in the house, the angel was sold on consignment and is actually as old as it looks.

Breakfast at Nicks

Michelle and I enjoyed huevos rancheros for breakfast this morning while checking the surf at Nicks. Its pretty small and stormy out there. More rain predicted. Time to watch some football.

Time To Burn

Apparently people like to troll Google looking for  bizarre photos captured as part of their Google Street View project. Some guy built a blog containing a few of them. Below is an example....enjoy.

BMX

Pretty cool video of a 15 year old who loves rollers at the local track. I'm not a fan of the music so put your own on and watch someone who can manual (i.e. wheelie) through jumps.

Sunday Morning Surf

Michelle took some photos of me surfing this morning. The waves were OK...a little crowded  but there were a couple fun ones. I'm going to get something to eat and go out later this afternoon...