We went out to San V yesterday for a morning sesh, and had a pretty good time.
got the pass for the slalom course, and had some good riding up until we headed out around 12. Ran into Buzz, Sponge, and Dennis out there, so they came over to the slalom course and drank some beers and rode for a while. Pretty crazy when we were leaving, saw a friend of ours pull up and he said they had been waiting in Line for over an hour - apparently the lake was at max cap (100 boats) all morning, and people had to leave before they let more on. Pretty crazy…I haven’t ever seen a line like that at the lake. Thats why Danielle’s dad always tells me its worth getting up early and going out - you have to get the good water and not wait in line!
Kjo finally got his 2006 Sanger V210 running, so we took it out on the bay tonight for a quick session. This thing seriously rips! Turns out someone had previously tried to start it dry and burned up the impeller and chipped the flywheel. $600 later it runs perfectly! The wake behind it is unbelievable, not super wide but huge lips that just ramp you up off of them. I was clearing the wake pretty easily (the nice water in the bay at 5pm on a sunday didn’t hurt either). We had a much better session than going out Saturday. We finally had some sun, so there were quite a few people out, which makes it pretty much pointless to attempt wakeboarding in the bay. The clouds cold helped keep people away today too, so we got some good water. I’m pretty much over attempting to wakeboard in the bay on weekends. Thinking of just heading to the lake on weekends.
I’m trying to get a lot more serious about wakeboarding this summer, I really want to step it up. I’m looking in to a bunch of instructional videos, and maybe taking lessons. There is a really good 5 disc DVD set called "The Book" that is supposed to be one of the best wakeboarding videos out there. I’m checking out another one called Higher Education too that is supposed to be pretty good. There is a lot of good information on YouTube as well. I know you probably can’t learn a whole lot from watching a video, but for the times I can’t be out on the water I at least want to be learning.
Time to head to bed and go back to slaving away another week at work. Just looking forward to heading out to the river with Kjo and the crew for Memorial day in 2 weeks!
Had another awesome weekend, filled with a ton of wakeboarding and sun. 5 days of work ended last week with happy hour @ Fred’s in Old Town with the gf and her family, a shot of cuervo and a margarita, followed by some hot tub and booze action at La Mirage. Passed out for a couple hours of sleep to get up at 5:30am and head out to San Vicente for some wakeboarding. Danielle’s mom turned out to be an excellent coach, giving me some really helpful tips to step up my skills. Although now I find I have so much to remember while riding, I just have to keep practicing to get all these things to be second nature.
Took care of a bunch of stuff saturday afternoon - noticed another vibration in the brakes on the F150, pulled off the wheel to find that another bolt on the driver side caliper had come off! What is going on! Put loc-tite on all the caliper bolts on both sides, so hopefully this is the end of brake problems.
Sunday went out to San V again with the guys from DBG Concepts. Did some wake surfing and wakeboarding. (reminds me - I still need to fix the gallery on their website! Shit). Check out the pics up top for some of the action. It was nice weather in the morning, but the wind picked up and blew clouds in as it got later, so when we left around 7 it was pretty dark and super cold.
Also on Saturday, went around to some local car dealers to check out a new ride. I’m thinking of getting a new car, and am really liking the 2008 Mustang Shelby GT500’s. It was crazy walking around dealerships - they are so desperate to sell cars right now they will offer you just about anything. Evan and I got mobbed by salesmen everywhere we went, trying to get us to buy right then and there. I guess with the economy going to shit, no one is buying anything at all. One salesmen at Mossy Ford in PB was 29, with a finance degree from USC, can’t find a job and is selling cars, and about to get fired from that because no one is buying anything! I will keep posting about my car search. It is dependent on me selling my truck, maybe my motorcycle as well. I’m not sure about how much of a payment I want to get myself into either, so I will just have to see. Dunno if I’ll end up with the Shelby, but it will probably be a mustang GT.
Anyway, Have to head over to Solutions 4 College offices to wrap up this website project that we have been working on for the past month, and pick up the final payment. Lets just say it will be good to have this project completed. I would like to get the focus back on apache.com, and have some time to play GTA. See ya!
Fun Day at San V
Also on Saturday, went around to some local car dealers to check out a new ride. I’m thinking of getting a new car, and am really liking the 2008 Mustang Shelby GT500’s. It was crazy walking around dealerships - 
