good morning, 5:30 am on this cold north wind wednesday. north shore is up but so are the onshore winds. all i can see now is stormy whitewash. town looks super clean and there is still some swell. i bet diamond head is all time right now. the boys are coming to town. we’re either going to surf or dive, or do both. i’m glad i have a 3mm dove wetsuit because it’s going to be cold out in the ocean. see you in the water!!

hawaii is small so rumors go around pretty fast. i’ve been hearing of this delicious asian nabe restaurant for a long time. i went 3x already and got turned away because there were too many people waiting in line. last night, i went down early and waited, waited, and waited. and after eating the nabe, i would have waited 3 hours to eat that. it was so good. and to eat it with friends like kinsan, kimura-san, atsuko-san, yumie-chan, and hayato, it made it even better. thanks guys for the wonderful dinner!!! no blogs on where this is please. secrets are better kept secrets….

the shave ice at the end was the winner. i’m going back there really soon!!! by the way, i seen yumie-chan get some really good waves this morning at pipeline. she was the only bodyboarder chick out early morning. where are all the bb girls?
**yesterday i seen kimura-san’s car at leftovers so i pulled over. he just got out of the water and opened his door so jumped in the other side drivers seat and hid. he didn’t see me get in the car so as he was changing in the back, i said “HEY!!” he looked at me and freaked out!!! i felt bad after because he could have had a heart attack. i surely would have if that happened to me. sorry kimura-san. next time please be careful when you open your door because it could have been somebody else… haha…

**one of the things i learned in business college is that when one thing goes down, other things go up. one classic example is toyota. they recalled something like 4.2 million cars because of a problem of the accelerator pedal getting stuck. shit, that’s a pretty dam major problem. the money it will cost them for the part, to train the mechanics how to fix it, and to send out all the recall notices will run in the millions of dollars. it’s a big problem for toyota and i hope they can figure out a way to get consumer confidence back….


so as toyota sales fell 16 percent in the month of january largely due to the recall, ford’s sales were up 25 percent. business is scary and you just have to stay on top of everything. and when things go bad, you have to get back up, shake it off, think positive, and move forward. companies like that make it in this world and i’m pretty confident toyota will be back at number 1 soon….

Hawaii Time:

Mon 1:00am
Tue 8:30pm
Wed 2:30am 1:00pm
Thu 10:30am
Sat 3:00pm
Sun 7:00pm
Japan Time:

Mon 2:00pm
Tue 8:00pm
Wed 3:30pm
Thu 8:00am 9:30pm
Fri 5:30am
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good evening. last night, i got an invitation for a dive today but turned it down. it was hard knowing the conditions were going to be perfect for diving today. so as i was driving out to the north shore early this morning, all i could think about was diving…. then after i got my first barrel at backdoor, i forgot all about it and just wanted to surf!!! i ended up surfing for 3 hours and got some nice tubes!!! my first wave, i rode it to the inside section, did a bottom turn, and broke my fin. it was super shallow. but i always have a spare board in my car so 10 minutes later, i was in the lineup waiting for another one. the water was so glassy that i had a hard time seeing the waves coming in. i was back in town by 11 am and felt like i had a great day in the office… tomorrow is strong north winds so you know what that means? surf perfect south shore, or dive perfect south shore. i’ll just have to wake up and see… have a great evening….

once again, this is a broomtail fish. when ever i see one, my mouth starts to water. many people in hawaii don’t spear this fish because they don’t know how good the sashimi is. that’s good for me…. because i love this fish!!

this is the best part. open the stomach and pull out the liver. dip it in ponzu and you got yourself a gourmet appetizer…. this is very expensive in japan…

then wrap it up, eat half the fish sashimi style. and save the other half for another dinner…. gosh, this fish is so dam good and if you ever catch one and don’t want to eat it, please call me and i’ll come pick it up….
**i get the craziest kind of junk mail. here is one that i don’t understand. can somebody tell me what this means??
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