yesterday when i was getting rolled into the surgery room, the nurse asked me, “how much alcohol do you drink daily?” i told her i drink only on special occasions so not that much. i thought she was getting friendly and was going to ask me for my phone number next. then i asked her “why do you ask that?” she told me that she has to adjust how much gas she was going to give me. light drinkers get less gas, and heavy drinkers get more gas. eeh??? so i told her i wanted to change my answer. i told her that i drank 12 beers everyday and a bottle of jack daniels after. she laughed and turned up the gas. i was taking deep breaths and that’s all i remember until i felt the doctor pulling on my eyeball when he was tying the stitches. that felt weird so i tapped the nurse and she already knew what to do, which was to turn up the gas. it felt pretty cool flying around the world with my arms as wings… haha…
so i went to my doctor today to take off my patch. he said the surgery went perfect. i asked him when i can go back in the water, he told me 1 month. then i asked him when i can get on a flight out of here. he said today. so i was online looking for my next destination. umm…. where should i go????

this is my little nephew noah. i still can’t believe how he’s grown up. he might be bigger than me now but i always tell him that i can still kick his ass. haha…

renosuke-kun came to see me off at kansai airport. thanks kid….

the last time we stayed at the swiss hotel, we got treated like VIP guests and ate at the teppanyaki restaurant in the hotel. $1000 a head meal? the beef we ate makes kobe beef taste like beef jerky….

and while we were enjoying our sunset cruise in okinawa, yoshi-san took this photo. i found it on his blog. thanks yoshi-san…. see you again soon….

and last, i want to thank mother nature for bringing me rain and wind for the next week. perfect timing. now i can really relax…

I love it!!!

good morning. after starving all day yesterday, i feel like eating a huge piece of steak for breakfast. my eye? don’t know yet. still have the patch and will be heading to the hospital today to get it taken off and checked. i’m just hoping that i don’t have to go through this again. i still have flashbacks of the needle going into my eye. they gave me pain killers but i don’t want to take it. it will make me feel weird and i won’t be able to do anything. so i will just endure the pain again and just see how much i can handle. i don’t have time to complain because i have my hand surgery tomorrow. i’m glad i have insurance because i just got my bill for going to the ER room 3 weeks ago for x-rays of my hand. that was $1,150. my eye surgery was about $2,400 yesterday, and my hand surgery? probably big bucks too. medical insurance in hawaii is a must and if you don’t have it, stay home all day and don’t live a dangerous life like me. because if you do, you will be homeless in no time. well, gotta get going. have a nice rainy day!!! yeah!!! rain baby rain!!!
as for the waves, the north shore is looking 3-5′ and junky. already kind of windy. town has some small waves at bowls with clean perfect conditions. everybody take a 1 month break with me. haha…

i wanted to thank jun from nine surf for setting things up for our group when we were in hiroshima. i’ve known jun for a long time. jun’s cool, mellow, and surfs really good. here we are in nine surf shop with his new baby Karen… kawaii!!!

after dinner, we went to grab a few drinks at a bar in town. all these guys are cool!!! fron the back left, it’s Goto-san, next to him is Dr. Ito-san, then right back in Jun, then me, and last, obara-san. the people in hiroshima are super kind and good surfers!!! thanks and see you guys again!!!

i wanted to thank Goto-san for this rare bottle of shoyu. this shoyu in put into a recycled beer bottle and made on an island right off hiroshima. as soon as i get some sashimi, i’m going to sample it. itadakimasu!!!
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**and last, check out this photo my friend sent me. this is a photo of dove wetsuits rider takayuki wakita charging pipeline 2 days ago. 15′ hawaiian scale? i think so. sick photo!! go wakita!!!