No blond surfers around here. Up in NorCal for a couple of weeks and working on the GLRF site remotely.

It's been three weeks since I have been on the water and I won't be back near Marina Del Rey until 15 Sep. Yikes, that's a long time. No dogs to report; just chipmunks, pine cones, bears, coyotes, Aspens, and fir trees.

Everyone around here tends to have a little more body fat than LA. You can call us shallow but we LA boys like the lean look even if some us do succumb to the weakness of lemon meringue pie, brownies, and butter.

Julia was right - there is nothing better than butter although French butter is by far the best.

The FISA World Masters in Vienna starts today. I so wanted to be there, given my Austrian heritage but the economy has taken its toll. I hope they have great weather.

Time to chop some more wood.