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There is a huge swell here right now- supposedly a 20 year swell. Yesterday we spent at a private beach north of San Pancho and it was incredible. The waves must have been 2.5 meters and just crashing all at once- completely unsurfable (imho) but VERY dramatic. It was a friend of Astrid's b-day and the kids were out in the wash and beyond them by about 50 yards these enormous crashing giants were sending huge walls of whitewater rushing at them.

I was upset by the news that nytimes will be charging for content upcoming and spent the morning trying to figure out where to get my news from. I have been following the democrat's debacle and wondering what the hell will happen now with health care reform. I wondered how it would impact us down here- would we have to pay for health care we can't utilize? Anyway it seems like it will change after the MA elections- I think it is all entirely corrupt but whatever. Money pays. As for a new news service I found bbc too bubbly in it's online layout, cnn seemed too derived from it's tv roots. I guess that is why I love the nytimes, it reads like a newspaper. I suppose the washington post is a good alternative once the nytimes goes fee based.

I watch the goings on in my country of birth much like I hear of the goings on at companies for which I used to work. I think the institutions are flawed but care about the people who live under them. I wonder about the law of survival of the fittest as applied to corporations and institutions created by humans but then morphing into something that must sustain the machinations at the expense of those who created them. I guess it is a lesson I have to relearn that at a certain size an organism is infiltrated with bodies that care only of self preservation and the pioneer genetics get ousted. The "maintaining" phase looks pretty desperate. It applies to the democrats who aren't concerned with what's best but only with near term elections. Their argument could be that if they didn't focus on the upcoming elections they wouldn't be able to effect any change going forward. I loved learning about the supreme court justices who veered after their nomination success because they were no longer constrained by politics.

Today going to a beach, hopefully with some surfable surf. I will try to not get any sun as Friday I got toasted being out for 4+ hours in the water. What a glorious day in the water! It kinda worked me over for an entire day but you gotta make hay while the sun shines- I hope we keep getting the consistent swells like we have... SO damn lucky.