It's amazing how quickly she's growing and learning, and I'm still unbelieving that I'm a daddy. In the late afternoon, the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors had their football season opener against Minnesota. Despite being a 13 point underdog, the Bows pulled out all the stops and rumbled over the Gophers by a score of 17-3. After all the public sparring between Coach Fred vonAppen and state Governor Ben Cayetano, it's great that the team rose above it all and were successful. I'm not one who follows the lives of celebrities, but I did have a silent admiration for Lady Di, and felt an overwhelming numbness over her loss.
Death has a way of putting a lot of things in perspective.
It was with all these seemingly unrelated events on my mind that I went on a Sunday dawn-patrol with Russ. I was tired of surfing backside, and wanted to ride somewhere a bit more challenging, so we chanced it out at Diamond Head Cliffs. The winds were a bit stronger than forecast, blowing sideshore at maybe 10-20 mph, generating a bit of chop. And though we were the first group out, more surfers quickly sprinkled into the lineup. Russ was having a tough time at the new spot.