Jedediah Paulson

Author: jedediahpaulson

  • So Long, So Long

    It’s been too long.   What started as a hobby has decreased as I got super busy with taxes, spent all my free time traveling, etc, etc.

     

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    This never gets old.

  • Jedediah Sun Also Rises

    First thing I checked was my watch.   It was on my left wrist, of course, where it always was.  It read 5.32, and the sunlight slowly started to creep through the trees. 

  • Another big day

    The last day of the trip was the best.   We had gotten Jim out of the small Tamarindo jail, and he was in pretty good shape considering all that had happened.  A black eye and busted lip, bruised hands (more from slugging the strong jawed local thug than from getting slugged), and some disappointment that our trip had to end in the jail. 

    It was a sunny day and the waves were perfect, the ocean temperature was great.  Cool enough so that you didn’t sweat, warm enough so that you were never cold.  A highlight of the day was the shot that Jim took, where I cut back with a patented Jedediah sweet rip and caught some air.

    Love those waves…  I keep gettin’ older, and they stay the same age…

  • Back from the grave

    It hadn’t been more than 7 hours, when I heard the sirens in the distance.  The noise got louder until I could see the flashing lights and then hear tires on the gravel on the dirt road outside.  How had we gotten into this mess?  It had started out so simply, as these things always did.   Long neck Imperials at the Monkey Bar, a few games of pool, a bar fight with some drunk off his ass local and then a quick departure before his brothers, his uncles, his amigos arrived.

    This time it went sideways…  Jim shouldn’t have used the pool stick, and the cue ball was just the cherry.  Slung at the locals face, hard enough so that his lip exploded and I saw the man clutching a front tooth in his fingers wet with blood as he slowly recovered from the blow and then raised himself.   They guy was big, and faster than you’d expect for someone weighing 230/240 pounds.   We had bumped into him that morning, that day’s Mad Jesus – an term we had come to call anyone with Jesus length head and facial hair and a crappy “I own this break” attitude.  He kept dropping in in front of us and things were somewhat heated on the water before he departed for work.  Good fortune and good riddance, we thought.

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    another bar fight in tamraindo

  • Tamarindo Surf Trip, A Few Photos

    Just back from another amazing trip to Puerto Rico.   Wanted to share a few of my favorite photos.  Jim took most of these with his canon DSL.  More good ones to come.

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    Jim surfs a small one
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    jedediah surfing while sunsets
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    we’ll head to the bar today.
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    Flying into Miami.

  • Tamarindo, Day 4

    The rooster woke me up again, my head splitting from the cheap Puerto Rican beers.   When I first arrived, someone said that the beer was brewed with formaldehyde, so I tried to stick with the US imports most nights.   Last night we wound up outside of town at a surf/vacation hotel spot where a mix of the locals and visitors would party until the bar closed at 2AM.

    The rooster crowed again.   I thought about our night, I must have won a dozen games of 9ball, until the cheap beers got the best of me, and my shots got sloppy.  Once we left the hotel, we walked along the road back into town.  Passing cars honked, and someone threw an empty beer can at Jim, hitting him in the head.  Nice shot, asshole.

    The sun was now rising and the rooster crowed off and on and my room was getting hot.   Sweating, I got up from my bed and left the messy room I was renting from Fredrico Balazar.  Fredrico was the second son of the mayor of Tamarindo, which made him one of the most well connected friends I could have in the lazy surf town.

  • Accounting is Cool

    I finally found the proof I’ve been looking for – accountants are cool!  This video is pretty funny, but has some valid points, and has me wondering how this has not gone completely viral like that Razor for 1 buck video which had me laughing for days.

    http://www.marketri.com/blog/accountants-are-cool-no-really-show-world-video-marketing

  • 2012 spending

    Spending increased in 2012 at the fastest clip since 2006, reports the Wall Street Journal.  Back then, consumers were using their homes as ATMs, refinancing to take advantage of low rates and rapidly rising property values.

    This year, spending increased as a result of rising costs of everyday goods.  Consumer prices rose 3.2% – there’s no way around spending more when a gallon of milk now costs an extra 10 cents.  Good news is that income also rose, nearly 1.9%.

    The WSJ highlights this report as further evidence that “American’s finances are slowly recovering”.  Great news for the US consumer.