Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year!
A friend of mine just got back from a great 2 weeks riding in Japan. 12 metres of snow (and the locals were complaining as it was a bad season for them!)...Oh for a season that bad! I have to go the USA for work in 2 weeks so I am going to try and snaffle a few days at Big Bear or Mammoth...Let you guys know how it goes. Last time I rode there I broke my coccix...flew home sittin on a rubber ring. Everyone on the' plane thought I had piles.
It's 38 degrees celcius here in Oz right now. HOT HOT HOT. No waves in past week but it looks like there is a swell coming in a day or two. We are on Stage 4 water restrictions because of the drought now. no watering gardens, lawns, plants - No filling pools or spas, no washing cars, boats...everything is dying. Cattle and sheep are being shot as there is not enough food for them: GO VEGAN YOU WANKERS! Sad

We are all learning ingenious ways for grey water use and recycling. It's a good thing on that level.
anyway...HAPPY 2007 and all the best to everyone.
A lived in life can be happily died in'. Michael Leunig