Tractable Tuesday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

We Should Have Taken The Stairs Dept.:
            We have no idea why we even read these things.  But it was sooo compelling...  Like, "if the doors fail to open OR the elevator  becomes inoperative:"  What if it's inoperative and the doors open anyway?  At any rate we will NOT become alarmed, but we will use the button marked "ALARM".  Which somehow seems to suggest that we are somewhat alarmed or ready to be.  We're not even gonna look for the telephone on the excellent chance that it's not "furnished."  But the instruction that really got us was the caution to "...not attempt to force doors or hatch open.  It was kinda chicken or the egg - "hatch open" had never even remotely occurred to us.  How long do we have to incubate in this thing...

Almost 15 miles visibility under high clouds, with mostly sun.  Winds were out of the NE by 3.2kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was a chilly 41.9º and the water was 60.4º but seemed a couple of notches cooler.  Low tide was early at 5:13am +2.3' and high tide was at 11:02am +5.0'.  A strong swell out of west 275º at 4.3' and it was 4' to almost 6' at outstanding spots.

We were so busy reading the cautions that we almost forgot to press the button for our floor. Fortunately we were going to the 3rd floor on the way up.  We could only imagine that when you go down the elevator does a loop so that the numbers read correctly.  If the "Door Closed" button is upside down, does that mean the door is open?  We used the stairs when we left...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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