Life Alert: Still Here

Gimme a break, I just got back from Cabo. No, I wasn't there for a month and a half, I wish I was, both because it's a good time and because it would have been a great excuse for not posting anything in a month and a half.

Cabo was pretty cool. Really laid back, a totally different experience than Cancun. (As an aside, many of the people on our Cabo trip seemed to love to bash Cancun at any chance. I see no merit in this argument and totally disagree. I love Cancun. As the kids say in internet speak these days: I <3 Cancun) Cabo is much smaller than Cancun and doesn't really have any big resorts. You walk around a bunch in Cabo and there's tons of restaurants and bars to frequent. Even the beach is just a walk (or water taxi ride) away. Here are some of my highlights of Cabo:

- surfing. We took a 45 minute taxi ride up the Pacific side of the Baja Penninsula to a sweet place called Los Cerritos beach. It's a small public beach with a bar/restaurant and two surf shops. The waves were anywhere from 6-10 tall. I took a surfing lesson and even managed to get up on my first wave. I also managed to get the shit kicked out of me by the water. I suffered some pretty nasty rib damage by doing a 6' freefall that ended by my board landing on the water and my chest smashing onto the board. It was still totally worth it. Bucket List type stuff, brah. I think I'm supposed to say "Fifey!"

- deep sea fishing. 5 hours on a boat and no fish, not even a bite. On the positive side, we saw all kinds of gray whales jumping and spraying water. We also were in the middle of a school of about 100 dolphins. Yeah, 100, I shit you not. They would swim right up to the boat. Pretty sweet.

-Cabo Wabo Bar. I'm the first to admit that I hate Sammy Hagar. And I'll also admit that his bar (it was about 100 steps from our hotel) was killer. A live band during the day and a live band every night. The place was awesome - big, but not too big. The house band was rape as hell, and the drinks were pretty cheap too.

-countless deech sessions

-bartering

-being a hero in our group for being somewhat able to speak Spanish

-the food, duh

-78-82 degrees every day we were there, with sun and almost no clouds.


Aside from that, here's what I've been up to in the last month and a half, because I know you're dying to find out:

- I quit doing Body For Life. 6 days a week is too much. I still am doing 3-4 days of cardio, but for now, the weights have been eliminated.

- I posted my Top Albums of 2009 over at TMS.

- I started carrying a pocket knife full time. So very handy.

- I realized the Saints are a dirty fucking football team. I hope INDY destroys them. Hurricane Manning...

- I'll admit it, the Vikings deserved to lose that game. Yeah, they outplayed NO, but you can have that many TO's, that many boneheaded coaching decisions, and basically the entire country rooting against you and still hope to come out on top.

-I'm addicted to the AMC show "Mad Men". Best TV series since "The Wire". I think I could have thrived in the 60's advertising market.

-I'm shocked to find out how many diehard Conan O'Brien fans there are. You know, once they announced his show was over. Of all the late night guys, he's always been my fav, but it's not like I still watched it, and obviously no one else did either.

- I bowled my all-time high game of 219 a few weeks back. I've been gifted a ball, so I now own my own ball for the first time since I was 11.

See you in another few months...