Intro tread

Lol, no I've just spent way too much time reading current and past treades here without commenting. Not sure if I'm flattered or embarrassed by these suggestions. I used to use dukestorm for my surf predictin' needs and started coming to SI whenever the forecasts on that site stopped. Can't honestly remember what year that was now, somewhere between 2010 and 2012 I think? Also can't remember if there was always a forumme here, I think so, but I started clicking on and reading through treads every time I came to check the forecaste pretty quickly after. Although I did live in Colorado for three years before moving back east last fall, and I probably only checked the SI forummes twice in that whole time for obvious reasons. But I've lurked like a motherfvcker since moving back to the coast, and apparently picked up on most of the references to sh!t that happened while I was away, even though I've read very few historical treads that weren't happening in real time.

I have pretty significant untreated lifelong ADHD so the temptation to waste the entire workday on the interweb is incredibly strong. As such, I don't allow myself to do anything on the internets on my work computer other than work, with three exceptions: personal email account, surfline surf cams, and SI surf predictings. I rationalize the latter two because a year and a half ago changed jobs and moved myself and my wife 2000 miles largely so I could surf more (family and friends obviously played a role too, if it was just for surfing and I chose NJ over virtually every other coastline in the worlde I'd have far bigger issues than even this forumme's esteemed medical advise could solve), and now that I live and work 2 miles from the beach, there is no fvcking way I'm missing a swell for anything other than an absolute emergency (which includes occasionally using a few hours of vacation time on short notice when necessary and possible). For all my other internetting needs I use my phone, but when things get particularly heavy at worke I just turn off my cell data and that pretty much forces me to focus enough to not get fired. Anyway, lurking on this forumme has ended up being a bit of a loophole in my no interwebz rule (especially when I've turned off the data on my phone) because every time I check the surf predictings I can't help but click on whatever treades pop up under the maps and such. Resisted signing up for this long because I knew productivity would go to sh!t if I started posting plus who the fvck needs to hear the thoughts of another random jersey kook douchebagge on the internets anyway? (That's rhetorical, your responses are not welcome). But it's the week between xmas and new years and I'm one of the only one's in the office and can't get motivated to do actual work (nor do I have much that's super pressing anyway), plus I feel like I can actually contribute on a tangible level to the who has been surfing lately thread, seeing as how I check the waves around sunrise probably 25-28 days/month on average and get out at some point during almost every swell, unless I'm out of town or the only good window is on a weekday afternoon during the winter (which seems to have been happening like fvcking clockeworke here this entire month and looks like it's gonna happen againe today). I've almost signed up on a number of previous occasions during the past year, which means I've spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking about intro tread-related topics.

 

I feel that the above post is somewhat inappropriatte for an intro tread since it's actually all true, but whatever. Not that it actually proves I'm not a troll or alias for someone else, but whatever, none of y'all actually existe anyway so eat my fuk. Thought there was an off chance one of my friends from back in HS or college days would be on here and recognize my AIM screenname, since they are basically all kooks who don't surf anymore but still pretend to (which is very in fashion on ye olde interwebz I believe, and likely this site in particularre), but I guess not. Oh well.

 

yeah that's actually one of the SI references I don't really get, not entirely sure who that is or what his deal is or even whether he's liked or hated by the forumme members here, I'm guessing most of his posting was during the years I was in CO?

 

so confused...

 

No, not me and I don't know him.