Day 125 - It's official, tied the record!!!

Well, probably not really, but it is fun to act like it. I actually do not know how many days the streak lasted in '07, but it was certainly 125 or under. I wrote down each session on a calendar, but I cannot find this calendar, so I roughly calculated how many days it could be and then added a pad to be sure that I break my old record and this is how I came up with 125. March 19, is when I started this adventure, I cannot believe it! That was a long time ago! Well, I set out to surf for the entire summer last time. This time, it appears that I have surfed for the entire spring (that just dawned on me). I don't know where it stops, maybe at the official end of summer to make it interesting... I'll work that out over the next few days, but it will probably end there. Why not? 187 days? That's a likable number now isn't it? At least it is popular in all the rap songs that populate my iPod. What 187 means to me:

* 187 is an odd number
* 187 is a composite number
* 187 is a deficient number, as 29 is less than 187
* 187 is a self number
* 187 is a square-free number
* Prime factors of 187: 11 × 17
* Divisors of 187: 1, 11, 17, 187
* 187 is the sum of 3 consecutive prime numbers: 59 + 61 + 67
* 187 is the sum of 9 consecutive primes: 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37
* 187 is the difference of 2 square numbers: 142 - 32, and 942 -932
* 187 is a centered 31-gonal number

Straight from Wiki... I love it. Who does this? It seems every number has a Wikipedia page. I was looking for something to do next Sunday. I got it! I'll look for numbers that do not have their own Wikipedia page and contribute!

Wait just a minute there turbo... There is some use for the info on Wiki! It appears that Tonga ranks # 187 in world population! Tonga has waves! What a better way to end my streak then to go to Tonga for day 187? Alright, I'll drop that, I'm out of vacation anyway. I've done research on Tonga and while it apparently can get really good, it is also pretty easy to get skunked there.

But, uh, back to the lecture at hand.... (remember the rap on my iPod?). Today was so fun, I still give the edge to last night however. I saw Ben out there, but I did not catch my rhythm until he left (he gets out at 6:45 as he takes his job seriously). I found the same sandbar that I was on last night, this time it was at a lower tide. I unloaded on a few, tried an air, blew out my tail, all in all that's the spot.

If you haven't heard, there is a swell coming! The irony is that I'm almost certainly getting better waves right now than when the "swell" gets here on Friday-Sunday. It is a long period swell, pointed from a direction that invites inconsistency and will require a rockpile, point or some structure to work as the beach breaks will be walled. It will have been predicted for a week and a half prior to its arrival so if you own a surfboard, boogie board or know someone who does, you probably have planned your weekend already. What does that mean? It means that anything that is working will be super crowded, where do you think the Porto crowd (that I so often reference) will go? Pull up that mental picture of Malibu on a crowded day... Never mind that, I'll do it for you:


And that is 1961! Just be advised that it is an "inconvenient truth" that it actually can be scientifically proven that there are more people now than there were then. That one is for my Dad, he is a big fan of Al. I'm not a big fan of arguing about it...



I'm just a fan of global warming in general, so I'm on Al's side I guess... Maybe it will make better waves, but I admit, it has been difficult for me to rally people around this global warming cause ... My slogan, "Save the landfills, burn your tires!", has not taken hold. Stick to the subject matter here, this is a surf blog. But, you got to admit it, if a robot can make you blood boil, that's some pretty good propaganda! I'm just sayin... I like video.

What is a centered 31-gonal number? Hmmm...