12 to 15 foot waves at Pipes. Brief post-work session. Sunset was 5:01pm and better daily.
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08-Jan-2023
Big waves expose grander shells than usual. This one i found today after my session. My art supplies are mostly still boxed. I expect to falsify that statement soon.
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08-Jan-2023
What’s the cliché from the Academy Awards? “It’s an honor just to be nominated” — incredibly powerful water. None really very rideable for me unless you count bouncing around in flotsam like a stray buoy. I witnessed one surfer riding a huge fast wave in front of me. I did get past the monster breakers. The exhilaration and the view of the shore as I get raised 15-20 feet by a passing wave will always be a favorite. No photos taken; every ounce of my concentration and effort was swimming and staying safe. Know your limits.
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07-Jan-2023
Back to it as the first big 2023 swell wanes. The rain has subsided for now.
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05-Jan-2023
The rain continues off and on. Sunset walk along San Diego River.
I’ve moved so much I’m not totally sure how many. 22. Depending on how long you have to live somewhere to make it count as a move. My most recent move happened fast. I lived in that apartment longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my life, and this is the longest years in a row I’ve ever lived in any city. It feels good to have a home I like. Moving is dislocation and disruption; it’s hard in any circumstance. I’ve moved broke, depressed, divorced, unemployed. Here at the end of 2022 I’m happy and working and creating and I’ve got family and friends and the means to take action and a I have a terrific girlfriend I’m moving in with. Here’s to 2023!
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30-Dec-2022
Swam some laps in mostly dark. Move nearly done.
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30-Dec-2022
Do you love art? Would you like to buy a moody evocative 4’x4‘ oil and mixed media painting? Are you in San Diego? Then you can purchase this painting. The artist is my extremely talented ex @leohblooms serious offers only via direct message please. Local inquiries only.
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26-Dec-2022
It was big and firing today! I have been a week away from the ocean. Too long but worth it to be on the new adventure of moving!
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25-Dec-2022
Jessica and Miles’ new pup. As yet unnamed. Dogfooting.
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24-Dec-2022
Kelly and I can’t quite understand how and why the 1972 Sonny & Cher Christmas Special has William Conrad as the featured guest. Merry Christmas to us all and our atemporal world!
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23-Dec-2022
Cultures and religions across the world, have different definitions of adulthood, landmarks, sacraments, traditions—but few acknowledge obtaining and maintaining a moving dolly (e.g. checking the air pressure in the tyres; and filling them) as a signifier of maturity. Pastors, Rabbis, Priests, get to work on that. It’s important.
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23-Dec-2022
The verdict from my wonderful girlfriend at the end of yesterday, said with utmost love and affection: “Joe, you have a lot of stuff”—no truer words ‘twas ever spake. Mostly moved. It’s wonderful.
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21-Dec-2022
I’m moving. Some parts of the English speaking world say “moving house.” What do I watch or listen to when moving house? So far: Moneyball. My Dinner With Andre. Also there’s a little weeping because moving house is emotional and somewhere in my 40s I abandoned stoicism because it’s mostly overrated.
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18-Dec-2022
Let the boxing and packing and dismantling begin.
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17-Dec-2022
swim zone\o.b.
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16-Dec-2022
Ice cream headache at the top of me; numb toes at the bottom of me.
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15-Dec-2022
Next week I will do something I have not done in 11 years. I’m moving. I will not be alone, I will be moving in with Kelly and Gwen! It’s going to mean a lot of things: I’m not much further from the beach, the toy robots will have more room, and I’ll be on the Green line. 2023 might be great. I am very lucky!
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12-Dec-2022
New Bot Day! B2EMO is a hard working scavenger droid and a trusted part of the Andor family. And every day is a good day to quote Maarva Andor, who relied on Bee especially as she took sick. From her own eulogy: “The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we asleep. It’s easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it’s true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it’s too late. But I’ll tell you this, if I could do it again, I’d wake up early and be fighting those bastards from the start!”
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11-Dec-2022
Conditions before the storm: plenty chilly; wind rising; some good waves; better, maybe, for kiteboarders.
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10-Dec-2022
At Moonlight Beach earlier. Taken by my pal Margot visiting from NorCal.
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07-Dec-2022
This photo is from when Kelly and I had been dating for 2 months, when things were—complicated. I could not post this photo then. Five years later? I am delighted to. What a happy night at the Liberty Station tree lighting! May your holidays be as happy!